WCMC Child Neurology Postdoctoral Training in Developmental Neurosciences

 描述(由申请人提供)：WCMC神经科学学术发展奖(NSADA)的竞争性续展的主要目标是促进和支持另外三个致力于独立研究事业的毕业儿童神经学住院医生的职业发展。过去五年对WCMC K12培训计划的支持使我们能够创造出独特的培训环境和学术文化，适合培养下一代临床发育神经科学家。这个 目前支持竞争续签WCMC K12奖项的请求是继续进一步利用这一独特的刺激环境。对我们的K12培训计划的重新资助将使我们能够提供全额工资支持，允许另外三名毕业的儿童神经科住院医生每人将三年的时间和精力集中在发展他们的基础和临床研究技能上。这将使他们每个人都能作为学术儿童神经学家蓬勃发展，最终目标是让他们指导实质性的、正在进行的、独立的研究项目。为了实现这一目标，毕业的儿童神经科住院医师需要专门的和受保护的时间来培训经验丰富和有教养的导师，他们精通灌输WCMC K12项目毕业生所需的研究技能，以成功竞争持续的研究资金。在这项提案中，我们概述了继续和加强协调一致的培训方案的计划，包括业务结构和组织计划，以此实现这一目标。在这次更新中，我们进一步扩大了分布在WCMC和三所院校校园的研究导师集，每个人都有积极的联邦资助的研究项目，以及长期和杰出的培训临床和基础神经科学家的记录。为了补充在每个NSADA学者的研究导师的指导下提供的研究实验室驱动的培训，每个参加WCMC K12计划的受训人员将被要求获得临床、翻译或基础研究方面的教学培训，包括负责任的研究实施。此外，每位NSADA学者将在WCMC K12指导委员会的指导下，由一组研究和职业导师密切指导他们的研究项目和课程计划的发展和进展。这将使每一位NSADA学者的研究生涯培训与学术儿童神经病学的长期职业规划并行。在这一背景下，我们建议进一步发展WCMC K12培训计划，发挥WCMC和三所学院在基础和临床发展神经科学方面的特殊计划优势和资源。WCMC K12课程的更新是对地方和全国儿童神经学学术自我更新的机构承诺。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goals of the competing renewal of the Neurologic Sciences Academic Development Award (NSADA) at WCMC entitled "Child Neurology Postdoctoral Training in Developmental Neuroscience" (WCMC K12) are to facilitate and support career development for an additional cohort of three graduated Child Neurology residents committed to independent research careers. The previous five years of support of the WCMC K12 training program has enabled us to create a training environment and academic culture uniquely suited to train the next generation of clinical developmental neuroscientists. The current request to support the competing renewal of the WCMC K12 award is to continue to further take advantage of this uniquely stimulating environment. Renewed funding of our K12 training program will allow us to provide full salary support to allow an additional set of three graduated Child Neurology residents to each focus three years of their time and effort on developing their basic and clinical research skills. This will enable each of them to flourish as academic Child Neurologists with the ultimate goal of having them direct substantive, ongoing, independent research programs. To achieve that goal requires dedicated and protected time for graduated Child Neurology residents to train with experienced and nurturing mentors well versed in inculcating the research skills required for graduates of the WCMC K12 program to successfully compete for sustained research funding. In this proposal we outline plans for continuation and enhancement of a coherent training program, including an operational structure and organizational plan whereby that will be accomplished. In this renewal we have further expanded the set of Research Mentors who are distributed across WCMC and the Tri- institutional campus, each with active federally funded research programs, and long and distinguished track records for training clinical and basic neuroscientists. To complement the research lab driven training provided under the guidance of each NSADA Scholar's Research Mentor, each trainee participating in the WCMC K12 program will be required to obtain didactic training in clinical, translational or basic research, including the responsible conduct of researc. In addition, each NSADA Scholar will be closely guided by a team of Research and Career Mentors under the guidance of the WCMC K12 Steering Committee in the development and progression of their research project and curricular program. This will enable each NSADA Scholar's research career training to be paralleled by long-range career planning in academic Child Neurology. Within this context we propose to further develop the WCMC K12 training program that plays to the special programmatic strengths and resources in basic and clinical developmental neuroscience at WCMC and the Tri- institutional campus. Renewal of the WCMC K12 program is an institutional commitment to the self-renewal of academic Child Neurology locally and nationwide.