Training in Pediatric Endocrinology/Diabetes Research

描述(由申请人提供)： 耶鲁大学医学院正在寻求成为糖尿病培训的卓越中心之一，这将允许聪明的年轻儿科医生作为糖尿病的独立研究人员，在儿科内分泌学领域建立学术生涯。在这份T32申请中，我们要求在5年内每年提供2笔博士后奖学金。耶鲁大学有一系列令人印象深刻的资源来支持这项计划，包括DERC、单独的儿童和成人GCRC、用于低血糖研究的JDRF中心、儿科药理学研究单位、儿童健康研究中心、小鼠代谢表型中心、核磁共振中心和一个新的450,000平方英尺。足部临床科学研究机构。项目主任和培训教师都是备受尊敬和富有成效的研究人员，他们拥有广泛的同行评审拨款支持，以资助受训者的项目。我们的教职员工有着广泛合作的悠久历史，在培养博士后研究员方面有着出色的记录。博士后学员可以在五个主要研究培训领域(T1和T2糖尿病的病理生理学、低血糖/神经生物学、糖尿病的免疫生物学和糖尿病的行为/心理社会方面)和每个领域的4-6名初级和二级导师之间进行选择。我们教育活动的核心是研究医学计划，该计划沿着两条途径提供严格的必修课和选修课，即以患者为中心和以疾病为中心。成功完成课程工作和论文项目将使受训人员能够获得由医学系授予的博士学位。非博士候选人的替代课程包括罗伯特·伍德·约翰逊临床学者计划提供的定量临床流行病学课程和耶鲁儿童健康研究中心为年轻研究人员提供的研讨会系列。由糖尿病研究培训领域的三个卓越中心组成的“联盟”将使我们能够在培训工作和创新的招聘计划方面进行合作。此外，前ADA主席和即将上任的莫尔豪斯医学院校长James Gavin博士表示，他有兴趣将他的学校与我们在招募非裔美国人实习生方面的计划联系起来。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Yale University School of Medicine is seeking to be one of the centers of excellence in diabetes training that will allow bright young pediatricians to establish academic careers in pediatric endocrinology as independent investigators in diabetes. In this T32 application, we are requesting 2 post-doctoral fellowship stipends per year for 5 years. Yale has an impressive array of resources that will support this program, including a DERC, separate Children and Adult GCRC's, JDRF Center for the Study of Hypoglycemia, Pediatric Pharmacology Research Unit, Child Health Research Center, Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center, NMR Center and a new 450,000 sq. foot clinical science research facility. The Program Director and training faculty are highly respected and productive investigators with extensive peer-reviewed grant support to fund trainees' projects. Our faculty has a long history of extensive collaborations and an outstanding track record in training post-doctoral fellows. Post-doctoral trainees can choose between five major areas of research training (pathophysiology of T1 and T2 DM, hypoglycemia/neurobiology, immunobiology of diabetes and behavioral/psychosocial aspects of diabetes) and 4-6 primary and secondary mentors within each area. A centerpiece of our educational activities is the Investigative Medicine Program that provides a rigorous curriculum of required and elective courses along two pathways, i.e., patient-oriented and disease-oriented. Successful completion of course work and thesis project will allow trainees to receive a Ph.D. that is awarded through the Department of Medicine. Alternative curricula for non-Ph.D. candidates include the Quantitative Clinical Epidemiology course offered by the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and the Seminar Series for Young Investigators offered by the Yale Child Health Research Center. The formation of a "consortium" of three centers of excellence in diabetes research training will allow us to collaborate in training efforts as well as in innovative recruitment plans. Moreover, Dr. James Gavin, former President of the ADA and incoming President of Morehouse School of Medicine, has indicated his interest in linking his school to our program in the recruitment of African American trainees.