Baylor Mentored Clinical Investigator Award

描述（申请人提供）： 贝勒指导临床研究者奖（MCIA）的目的是为致力于以患者为导向的研究的学术事业的医生科学家提供教学结构和指导。拟议方案提供：1）建立良好，同行评审资助，临床研究者具有指导的跟踪记录; 2）优秀的研究资源，计划和设施; 3）研究设计，统计学，分子生物学和/或其他同源领域的教育支持; 4）从一开始就确保适当和成功的导师匹配;以及5）学者的研究和培训计划的发展。该奖项将确保成功培训医生科学家进行尖端的面向患者的研究：1）促进学者个人教学和研究培训计划的持续发展;和2）提供急需的工资和研究支持，以保护他们的个人研究和教育工作的时间。该计划提供博士学位。和史密斯通过贝勒生物医学科学研究生院和临床科学家培训计划（CSTP）获得临床研究学位。学者将与他们的导师一起制定一份3至5页的研究计划，作为他们申请该计划的一部分。所有申请将由一个计划咨询委员会审查，从整体指导教师和研究生院招生委员会选择。教育支持将来自：1）专门为贝勒CSTP的学员开发的课程; 2）贝勒的临床和基础科学课程; 3）附属机构的课程，如UT公共卫生学院;和4）CSTP研讨会系列。该计划有45名临床研究人员作为模范导师。所有模范导师都有积极的研究计划和指导医生科学家的重要经验。临床研究课程奖（K-30）为临床研究课程（CSTP）提供资源。CSTP（K30）不为该计划的学者提供工资支持。在CSTP计划的学者，和其他研究员和初级教师在贝勒，致力于临床研究的职业生涯将是该计划的主要受益者。在过去的两年里，CSTP已经接受了20名学者（2名博士）。八个在MS。课程和10个附加资格证书课程）来自广泛的临床学科。该计划的资金是至关重要的成功培训学术医生与独立的同行评审的研究资金。

DESCRIPTION (Provided by the applicant): The objective of the Baylor Mentored Clinical Investigator Award (MCIA) is to provide didactic structure and mentoring for physician scientists, who are committed to academic careers in patient-oriented research. The proposed program provides: 1) well established, peer review funded, clinical investigators with a track record of mentoring; 2) excellent research resources, programs and facilities; 3) educational support in the area of study design, statistics, molecular biology, and/or other cognates; 4) assurance of an appropriate and successful mentor match from the beginning; and 5) development of research and training program of the scholar. This award will ensure success in training physician-scientists conducting cutting-edge patient oriented research by: 1) facilitating the ongoing development of individual didactic and research training programs for scholars; and 2) providing much needed salary and research support to protect time for their individual research and educational efforts. The proposed program offers Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in clinical investigation through the Baylor Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Clinical Scientist Training Program (CSTP). Scholars will develop a 3 to 5-page research proposal with their mentors as part of their applications to the program. All applications will be reviewed by a Program Advisory Committee, selected from the overall mentoring faculty, and the Graduate School Admissions Committee. The educational support will be derived from the: 1) curriculum specifically developed for the trainees of the Baylor CSTP; 2) the clinical and basic science curricula at Baylor; 3) courses at affiliate institutions such as UT-School of Public Health; and 4) CSTP seminar series. The program has 45 clinical investigators as model mentors. All model mentors have active research programs and significant experience in mentoring physician-scientists. The Clinical Research Curriculum Award (K-30) provides resources for the curriculum in clinical research (CSTP). The CSTP (K30) provides no salary support for the scholars in the program. The scholars in the CSTP program, and other fellows and junior faculty at Baylor, committed to clinical research careers will be the primary beneficiaries of this program. Over the last two yrs, the CSTP has accepted 20 scholars (2 in the Ph.D. program, eight in the M.S. program and 10 in the Certificate of Added Qualification program) from a broad spectrum of clinical disciplines. The funding of this program is crucial to the success in training academic physicians with independent peer reviewed research funding.