Pediatric Scholars Program

描述（由申请人提供）：CHOP建议建立一个NICHD赞助的CHRCDA K12项目。 我们的目标是通过识别和培训有前途的儿科教师成为成功的医生-科学家，并鼓励他们解决对儿童健康和疾病至关重要的问题，来增加具有严格背景和分子技术技能的专科儿科医生的数量和有效性。 我们计划的候选人将是从我们的子专业研究员和通过国家搜索任命的CHOP教师。 每位候选人将从29名导师中确定一名未来的导师，其中22名来自儿科系，其他7名来自宾夕法尼亚大学其他地方。 CHOP CHRCDA的导师是根据以下标准选择的：与儿童密切相关的领域的严谨科学;成功的研究互动和指导记录;强大的校外资金;和计划平衡。 儿科学者将获得不少于两年的支持，以进行正式研究申请中概述的研究。 他们将随时获得全面的分子核心，并有充分的机会在正式和非正式的场合与其他高级和初级研究人员交换意见。 我们认为CHRCDA是我们CHRC的自然继承者，CHRC在催化能够进行基础研究的医生科学家的生产方面非常成功。 在我们举办CHRC的10年中，我们从11个儿科专科中选择了39名MAPS学者。 其中，85%的人继续从事学术研究，72%的人继续将50%以上的时间用于研究，71%的人成功获得了一项或多项NIH赠款，包括16项R 01或R29奖项。 我们的CHRCDA将建立在这一传统和CHOP的优势，作为一个儿科学术机构，拥有一个优秀的子专业研究员，经验丰富的导师与尖端的研究计划，一个良好的支持和资源丰富的研究环境，以及研究培训的传统。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The CHOP proposes to establish an NICHD- sponsored CHRCDA K12 program. Our goal is to increase the number and effectiveness of subspecialty pediatricians with a rigorous background and skills in molecular techniques by identifying and training promising pediatric faculty to become successful physician-scientists and encouraging them to address questions of fundamental importance to health and disease in children. Candidates for our program will be CHOP faculty appointed from our subspecialty fellows and through national searches. Each candidate will identify a prospective mentor from a group of 29 mentors, 22 from the Department of Pediatrics, the other 7 from elsewhere at the University of Pennsylvania. CHOP CHRCDA mentors were chosen by the following criteria: rigorous science in areas germane to children; a record of successful research interactions and mentoring; strong extramural funding; and programmatic balance. Pediatric Scholars will be supported for no less than two years to conduct research as outlined in their formal research applications. They will have ready access to a comprehensive Molecular Core and ample opportunities to exchange ideas in formal and informal settings with other senior and junior investigators. We view the CHRCDA as a natural successor to our CHRC, which was extremely successful in catalyzing the production of physician-scientists capable of conducting fundamental research. During the 10 years that we held the CHRC, we selected 39 MAPS Scholars from 11 pediatric subspecialties. Of these, 85% have remained in academics, 72% continue to spend more than 50% of their time in research, and 71% have succeeded in obtaining one or more individual NIH grants, including 16 R01 or R29 awards. Our CHRCDA will build on this tradition and upon CHOP's strengths as a pediatric academic institution with an outstanding pool of subspecialty fellows, experienced mentors with cutting edge research programs, a well supported and resource rich research environment, and a proven tradition of research training.