Training Clinical Scientists in Radiological Imaging

描述(由申请者提供)：加州大学圣地亚哥分校放射科正在重新提交一份针对住院医师的博士后培训补助金的竞争性续签申请，名为“培训临床科学家的放射成像”。在第一个五年筹资周期之后，该部的创新培训方案取得了巨大成功。这群学员已经开始加入学术部门开始他们自己的学术生涯，在高影响力的期刊上有出色的发表记录，他们的工作获得了奖项-2011年NeuroImage上被引用最多的文章之一-并且已经获得了支持他们的工作的拨款和2个NIH R01支持Mentor的拨款。成像在临床护理和生物医学研究中的作用越来越大，这导致了对精通尖端成像科学的临床医生-科学家的迫切需求。目前，美国各地有一批申请学术放射学住院医师项目的医学生人才，其中20名医学博士和50名医学博士每年在医学院期间花费1年的专门研究时间。只有一小部分人被引诱留在放射学学术领域从事研究。本建议中描述的培训计划建立在科室经过验证的4年临床培训计划的基础上，在实习开始时增加一个完整的研究年度，然后在整个临床培训的基础上，在其余的4年中每年花费6周的专门研究时间。三个为期一年的时段将提供给该部门为期五年的放射科实习计划的申请者。其目标是根据每个申请者的个人需求定制培训计划，并最大限度地提高学员在加州大学圣迭戈分校的研究经验。除了达到董事会认证的要求外，临床培训还将侧重于学员特别感兴趣的领域。临床年将是连续的，以最大限度地提高学员的学习能力；然而，学员在加州大学圣迭戈分校的整个逗留期间将与他们的研究导师保持联系。每个实验室负责人在受训人员研究年度提供的指导以及临床科学家在五年驻院期间提供的指导将把他们的研究和临床经验联系起来，并为他们未来的临床科学家职业生涯提供一个模式。除了研究机会和职业指导外，该计划还包括针对每个受训人员的需求量身定做的专门讲座和专门针对学术放射科医生的研讨会。Match Program提供的专注于临床科学家职业生涯的综合培训计划确保了所有申请者都有平等的机会，并允许我们在培训的早期就让住院医生参与进来，从而培养出敬业的、训练有素的临床科学家。加州大学圣迭戈分校非常适合培养下一代成像科学家。对于这项建议，我们召集了16名放射学导师和8名非放射学导师，他们在过去10年里总共培训了300多名实习生，拥有110多项有效赠款和7000万美元的赠款支持，他们的实习生发表了近700篇论文，其中大部分发表在高影响力的期刊上。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The UC San Diego Department of Radiology is resubmitting a competitive renewal of its postdoctoral training grant for medical residents, "Training Clinical Scientists in Radiological Imaging". Following its first five-year funding cycle the department's innovative training program has met with great success. The group of trainees has begun joining academic departments to embark on their own academic careers, with excellent publication records in high impact journals, awards for their work-one for being the most cited article in Neuroimage in 2011-and having already been awarded grants to support their work and 2 NIH R01 grants to support mentor. The growing role of imaging in clinical care and biomedical research has resulted in an acute need for clinician- scientists skilled in cutting-edge imaging science. At present, there exists a talented pool of medical student applicants to academic radiology residency programs across the U.S.A. with >20 MD/PhDs and a >50 MDs that have spent >1 year of dedicate research time during medical school per year. Only a small fraction is enticed to stay in academic radiology and pursue research. The training program described in this proposal builds on the department's proven 4-year clinical training program by adding a full research year at the beginning of residency that is then built upon throughout the clinical training by spending 6 weeks of dedicated research time per year for the balance of the 4 years. Three one-year slots will be made available to applicants to the department's five-year radiology residency program. The goal is to tailor the training program to the individual needs of each applicant and to maximize trainees' research experience at UCSD. Clinical training will focus on areas of specific interest to the trainee in addition to meeting requirements for board certification. The clinical years will be consecutive to maximize trainees' learning; however, trainees will maintain contact with their research mentors throughout their stay at UCSD. The mentorship provided by each laboratory leader during trainees' research year and by the clinical scientist throughout the five-year residency will link their research and clinical experiences and provide them a model for future careers as clinical scientists. In addition to research opportunities and career mentorship, the program includes specialized lectures tailored to the needs of each trainee and workshop specific to academic radiologists. A Match Program-offered integrated training program focusing on the career of clinical scientists ensures equal access to all applicants and allows us to engage residents early in their training, resulting in committed, well-trained clinical scientists. UCSD is well suited to train the next generation of imaging scientists. For this proposal, we have assembled 16 Radiology and 8 non-radiology mentors that together have trained over 300 trainees in the past 10 years, have over 110 active grants and $70M in grant support and their trainees have published nearly 700 papers most of which is in high impact journals.