TRAINING IN CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH

培训计划的目的是为医生在心血管医学领域的学术生涯做好准备。该计划强调心血管疾病的分子生物学和遗传学方面的培训。大多数受训人员将是即将毕业的内科住院医师，参加我们为期四年的心脏病学研究奖学金，包括24个月的临床培训(不包括本补助金申请)和24个月的研究培训。部分学员会将研修期延长至三、四年。建立了核心课程。授课教学包括分区会议、研讨会、专题系列讲座以及学校和大学课程。每个实习生将主要与一名教职员工联系，在大多数情况下接受为期两到三年的研究培训。这一赠款期间的计划已经改变，强调在八个基础研究实验室和一个基于基因的患者治疗计划中提供分子生物学和遗传学方面的培训机会，每个实验室都与临床研究计划有关。与过去一样，增加15名教员将提供全面的研究选择，但我们预计大多数研究员将选择分子生物学和遗传学培训，或将基本基因发现转化到床边的培训。基础和临床研究之间的联系是我们项目中的一个突出主题，这是这所医学院基础和临床心血管科学家长期合作的结果。培训机构包括医学院的实验室、温特贝研究大楼、大学研究部分、诺拉·埃克尔斯·哈里森研究培训研究所、埃克尔斯人类遗传学大楼、生物医学聚合物研究大楼、亨茨曼癌症研究所和盐湖退伍军人医学中心；以及犹他大学和盐湖退伍军人医学中心的临床设施。所有初级培训教员和大多数其他参与教职的教员都有大量的联邦和其他研究资金。该奖学金的毕业生能够设计和执行以假设为导向的生物医学研究项目，并有资格在学术项目中担任全职医学院教师。在这个由NRSA支持的项目的前14年中，我们实现了81%的学员进入学术职位的比率。

The purpose of the training program is to prepare physicians for academic careers in cardiovascular medicine. The program emphasizes training in molecular biology and genetics of cardiovascular disease. Most trainees will be immediate graduates of internal medicine residencies entering our four-year fellowship in cardiology, composed of 24 months of clinical training (not supported by this grant request) and 24 months of research training. Some trainees will extend the period of research training to three or four years. A core curriculum is established. Didactic teaching includes divisional conferences, seminars, topically organized lecture series, and School and University courses. Each trainee will associate primarily with one faculty member to receive research training in a well-circumscribed area for two or three years in most cases. The program has been changed for this grant period to emphasize training opportunities in molecular biology and genetics in eight basic research laboratories, each with ties to clinical research programs, and in one gene-based patient therapy program. Fifteen additional faculty will offer a full compliment of research choices as in the past, but we expect most fellows to opt for molecular biology and genetic training or training in the translation of basic genetic discoveries to the bedside. The link between basic and clinical research is a prominent theme in our program, a result of long standing collaborations between basic and clinical cardiovascular scientists in this medical school. Training facilities include laboratories in the Medical School, the Wintrobe Research Building, University Research Part, the Nora Eccles Harrison Research and Training Institute, the Eccles Human Genetics Building, the Biomedical Polymers Research Building, the Huntsman Cancer Institute and the Salt Lake VA Medical Center; and clinical facilities in the University of Utah and Salt Lake VA Medical Centers. All of the primary training faculty and most other participating faculty have extensive federal and other research funding. Graduates of this fellowship are capable of designing and performing hypothesis-oriented biomedical research projects and are qualified for full-time medical school faculty appointments in academic programs. During the previous 14 years of this NRSA-supported program, we have achieved an 81% ate of entry into academic positions by our trainees.