MULTIDISCIPLINARY HEART AND VASCULAR DISEASES

杜克大学医学中心从事心血管疾病领域的临床医生和科学家的培训已经超过40年。这一成功在很大程度上归功于25年来对心血管训练计划赠款的资助。 这项申请是我们心血管训练计划补助金的竞争性更新，该补助金最后一次资助是在1996年。 心血管培训计划代表了医学，外科，细胞生物学，儿科，药理学，工程和遗传学部门的综合努力，以培养博士后心血管医生科学家。 这将通过为学员提供多学科的教师和环境来实现，以促进和发展与心血管系统相关的生物医学研究。 该计划的基本理念是通过创造一个有利于整个大学的课程和部门之间的自然联系的环境来整合培训和研究。 一个延长的研究期（2年或更长时间）将提供给培训生在项目教师的指导下，他们将密切监督和指导培训生的学术职业发展。 该计划将提供一个重要的机制，在研究生医学培训的关键时期支持学员，并提供一个有利于以研究为导向的职业环境。 在此期间，学员将被“保护”免受临床责任的影响，并沉浸在研究中，以获得在学术机构中成为独立研究者所需的背景和经验。 个别导师将提供技能，如实验设计，数据分析，手稿和赠款准备在培训期间。该计划的目标是通过创造一个环境，确保杜克将继续为能够在心血管领域追求成功的研究事业的年轻研究人员的发展做出贡献，继续这一生产力的历史。 当前的应用程序将描述最近实施的修改和改进，并将讨论杜克对培养下一代心血管研究人员的持续承诺。 该培训计划强调对医生-科学家的培训，为此，约90%的学员将是MD或MD/PhD。

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's Abstract) Duke University Medical Center has been engaged in the training of clinicians and scientists in the area of cardiovascular diseases -for over 40 years. Much of this success can be attributed to 25 years of funding of the Cardiovascular Training Program Grant. This application is a competitive renewal for our Cardiovascular Training Program Grant, which was last funded in 1996. The cardiovascular training program represents the integrated efforts of the Departments of Medicine, Surgery, Cell Biology, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Engineering, and Genetics to train postdoctoral cardiovascular physician-scientists. This will be accomplished by providing a multidisciplinary faculty and environment to trainees in order to foster and develop excellence in biomedical research related to the cardiovascular system. The underlying philosophy of this program will be to integrate training and research by creating an environment that facilitates the natural linkages among programs and departments throughout the University. An extended period of research (2 years or more) will be provided to trainees under the mentorship of program faculty who will closely supervise and direct the academic career development of the trainee. This program will provide an important mechanism for supporting trainees during a critical period of postgraduate medical training and provide an environment conducive to a research-oriented career. During this time, trainees will be "protected" from clinical responsibilities and immersed in research to obtain the background and experience necessary to establish themselves an independent investigators in academic institutions. The individual mentor will provide skills such as experimental design, data analysis, and manuscript and grant preparation during the training period. The goal of this program is to continue this history of productivity by creating an environment that will ensure that Duke will continue to contribute to the development of young investigators capable of pursuing successful research careers in cardiovascular fields. The current application will describe the modifications and improvements that have been recently implemented and will discuss Duke"s ongoing commitment to train the next generation of cardiovascular researchers. The training program emphasizes the training of physician-scientists, and to this end, approximately 90% of the trainees will be MDs or MD/PhDs.