Medical Student Training Program

 描述(由申请人提供)：本申请申请为宾夕法尼亚州立大学医学博士项目申请MSTP资金。我们的项目已经有20年的历史，培养优秀的学生，并为他们提供成为成功的内科科学家和学术医学领袖所需的工具和经验。宾夕法尼亚州立大学拥有一支才华横溢、互动式的教师队伍，致力于生物医学研究和医学博士/博士职业发展。参加我们医学/博士项目的学生在医学院期间得到院长的全力支持，在项目的研究生阶段得到教员津贴和个人奖学金的全力支持。MSTP奖将利用这一机构承诺，使我们的项目从目前每年录取6名学生增加到每年录取8名学生。在过去的10年里，宾夕法尼亚州立大学通过几项有针对性的投资大幅提高了医学博士/博士项目的质量：(I)医学/博士项目完全自主地选择和录取合格的学生；(Ii)机构支持增加了~100%，从每年不到100万美元增加到近200万美元；(Iii)招聘了70名医生-科学家教员，包括几个系主任和项目主任，以及最近的一项倡议，即再招聘5-10名新的医生-科学家教员；(Iv)申请者人数增加了45%；(V)将招生人数从33人增加到51人；(Vi)将招生人数增加一倍；(Vii)通过与工程科学和力学以及分子和细胞集成生物科学联合项目的发展，与我们在大学园区的姊妹校区建立更紧密的联系，并在大学园区任命一名博士/博士项目副主任。医学博士项目的课程是跨学科的，是综合的。学生在整个培训过程中纵向接触临床和基础科学活动，从而强调将生物医学研究与患者护理相结合的必要性。专门针对MD/PHD的计划活动包括每月一次的研讨会系列，学生在研讨会上介绍他们自己的研究并向来访的演讲者学习；双月临床研究会议，在那里学生学习将临床问题作为研究基础科学和翻译科学文献的跳板；纵向临床暴露计划，在该计划中，学生通过选择 在从事研究的同时，每月至少有半天的临床导师和主治医师；在UP校园举行的年度静修活动；以及几个专门涉及转化性生物医学研究和MD/博士职业发展的课程和研讨会。最重要的是，项目负责人对我们的学生采取非常亲力亲为的方式。我们非常认真地对待导师制，我们投入大量时间与我们的学生见面和倾听，使他们在宾夕法尼亚州立大学的培训体验不仅是 严格，但也提供了一条培训途径，促进他们的职业发展，使他们能够在未来的职业生涯中脱颖而出，成为内科科学家。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests MSTP funding for the Penn State MD/PhD Program. Our program has a 20-year history of training outstanding students and providing them with the tools and experiences needed to become successful physician-scientists and leaders in academic medicine. Penn State has a talented and interactive faculty committed to biomedical research and MD/PhD career development. The students enrolled in our MD/PhD program are fully supported by the Dean of the College of Medicine during the medical school years and by faculty grants and individual fellowships during the graduate phase of the program. An MSTP award would leverage this institutional commitment, allowing us to increase the program from our current level of 6 students admitted per year to 8 students admitted per year. Over the past 10 years, Penn State has substantially improved the quality of the MD/PhD program through several targeted investments: (i) full autonomy of the MD/PhD program to select and admit qualified students; (ii) ~100% increase in institutional support, from less than $1 million to nearly $2 million per year; (iii) recruitment of >70 physician-scientist faculty members, including several departmental chairs and program directors, plus a recent initiative to recruit an additional 5-10 new physician-scientist faculty members; (iv) a 45% increase in the applicant pool size; (v) an increase in the number of matriculating students from 33 to 51; (vi) a doubling of the number of matriculated underrepresented minority students; and (vii) establishment of closer ties with our sister campus at University Park (UP) through the development of joint programs with Engineering Sciences & Mechanics and Molecular & Cellular Integrated Biosciences, as well as the appointment of an Associate Director of the MD/PhD program on the UP campus. The curriculum for the MD/PhD program is interdisciplinary and integrated. Students are exposed to both clinical and basic scientific activities longitudinally throughout their training, thus emphasizing the need to integrate biomedical research with patient care. MD/PhD-specific programmatic activities include a monthly seminar series where students present their own research and learn from visiting speakers; a bimonthly Clinical Research Conference where students learn to use clinical problems as a springboard for investigating the basic and translational sciences literature; a longitudinal Clinical Exposure Program, in which students hone their clinical skills by selecting a clinical preceptor and attending clinic at least one half day per month while pursuing their research; an annual retreat held on the UP campus; and several courses and seminars that specifically deal with translational biomedical research and MD/PhD career development. Most importantly, Program leaders use a very hands-on approach with our students. We take mentorship extremely seriously and we invest a significant amount of time meeting with and listening to our students to make their training experience at Penn State one that will not only be rigorous, but also provide a training path that fosters their career development, enabling them to excel in their future careers as physician-scientists.