Baylor Mentored Clinical Investigator Award

描述(由申请人提供)： 贝勒导师临床研究员奖(MCIA)的目标是为致力于以患者为中心的研究的学术生涯的内科科学家提供教学结构和指导。拟议的计划提供：1)良好的、同行评议资助的、有指导记录的临床研究人员；2)优秀的研究资源、计划和设施；3)在研究设计、统计学、分子生物学和/或其他同源领域的教育支持；4)从一开始就保证适当和成功的指导匹配；以及5)学者的研究和培训计划的发展。该奖项将确保成功地培训从事以患者为导向的前沿研究的医生-科学家：1)促进学者个人教学和研究培训计划的持续发展；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努力的时间。拟议的计划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)提供临床研究方面的博士和硕士学位。学者们将与他们的导师一起制定一份3到5页的研究计划，作为他们申请该项目的一部分。所有申请都将由一个项目咨询委员会和研究生院招生委员会进行审查，该委员会是从所有辅导教师中挑选出来的。教育支持将来自：1)专门为贝勒CSTP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，如德克萨斯大学公共卫生学院；以及4)CSTP系列研讨会。该项目有45名临床研究人员作为模范导师。所有的模范导师都有积极的研究计划和丰富的指导内科科学家的经验。临床研究课程奖(K-30)为临床研究(CSTP)课程提供资源。CSTP(K30)不为参加该计划的学者提供工资支持。CSTP计划中的学者以及贝勒大学致力于临床研究事业的其他研究员和初级教员将是该计划的主要受益者。在过去的两年里，CSTP已经从广泛的临床学科中接收了20名学者(2名博士项目，8名硕士项目和10名附加资格证书项目)。这一计划的资金对于成功地用独立同行评议的研究资金培训学术医生至关重要。

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.