PREDOCTORAL TRAINING PROGRAM IN THE NEUROSCIENCES

拟议的培训计划的长期目标是提高下一代研究科学家的研究效率。神经科学正在解决最基本的问题，即大脑和行为是如何相关的。这对健康以及对理解人性的影响都是深远的。为了在这个迅速发展的领域中有效地工作，学生们有必要学习高度专业化的研究技术。然而，越来越多的人认识到，教育学生认识到，在神经科学中，显著的进步可能取决于处理具有多个专业化水平的问题，这一点具有巨大的价值。一项针对头两年培训的博士前学生的计划被提议，该计划将确保广泛接触神经科学的各个领域，同时提供重点研究项目的培训。通过让学生一加入项目就进入与他们的职业兴趣相关的实验室，就可以实现专注。广度是通过课程要求和参与大量计划范围的活动来实现的。在头两年的培训中，课程要求包括神经科学基础课程(神经生理学；神经解剖学)，探索神经科学全层次分析的课程(从分子到行为)，为期一学期的轮换到家庭实验室以外的两个实验室，负责任地进行研究的指导，以及选择以生理学和行为为主题的选修课。整个方案的活动包括出席每周活动(座谈会；研究研讨会)和年度活动(著名的系列讲座及其相关研讨会)。在培训计划的头两年，集中和广泛地接触神经科学，特别是为了让学生为他们的论文和博士后工作中的创新研究做好准备，并为他们以后在涉及健康相关问题的研究和教学生涯中取得成功做好准备。

The long-term goal of the proposed training program is to enhance research effectiveness in the next generation of research scientist. Neuroscience is addressing the most fundamental questions concerning how brain and behavior are related. The implications for health, as well as for understanding human nature, are profound. In order to work effectively in this fast expanding field, it is necessary that students learn highly specialized research techniques. However, it is increasingly recognized that there is a great value in teaching students to appreciate that, in the neurosciences, significant advances can depend on approaching problems with multiple levels of specialization. A program is proposed for predoctoral students in their first two years of training that will insure broad exposure to the varied fields of neuroscience while simultaneously providing training in a focused research project. Focus is achieved by having the students enter a lab associated with their career interests as soon as they join the program. Breadth is achieved through curriculum requirements and through involvement in a large number of program-wide activities. In the first two years of training, the curriculum requirements include courses in the fundamentals of neuroscience (neurophysiology; neuroanatomy), a course exploring the full range of levels of analysis in neuroscience ("from molecules to behavior"), 1-term rotations to two laboratories other than the home lab, instruction in the responsible conduct of research, and selection of elective courses with a theme in physiology and with a theme in behavior. Program-wide activities include attendance at weekly events (colloquium; research seminars) and annual events (a distinguished lecture series with its associated seminar). The focused and broad exposure to neuroscience achieved in these first two years of the training program is especially intended to prepare students for innovative research in their thesis and postdoctoral work, and for later success in their research and teaching careers involving health-related problems.