ACRIN FELLOWSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM

描述（由申请人提供）：美国放射学会影像网络（ACRIN）是一个ncl资助的合作组织，致力于开展与癌症相关的医学影像技术的严格、高质量的临床试验。然而，过去在医学成像方面很少有高质量的试验，这意味着很少有放射科医生获得了设计和进行试验或领导多学科团队的必要技能。ACRIN认识到，开展医学成像试验的任何努力的成功都取决于增加在方法学和组织方面受过充分培训的研究人员骨干，以开发和领导临床试验。ACRIN正在提出一项奖学金计划，以确保训练有素的研究人员的继任，这些研究人员将最终改善未来严格试验的实施，并为医学成像临床试验的更广泛应用奠定基础。ACRIN奖学金计划有以下目标：1)在多学科环境中培养影像学研究人员，以开发和开展严格的、多机构的医学影像学临床试验；2)培养有能力的临床试验研究人员，成为未来ACRIN和其他影像学临床试验的领导者；3)为放射科医生提供必要的知识和技能，使其在联邦临床研究经费中具有竞争力。拟议的计划寻求在为期两年的计划中，每年招募和培训三人。该项目需要正式的现场教育，并逐步增加与ACRIN试验团队合作的责任。正式的教育项目将涉及试验设计原则，以及联邦政府资助的临床试验是如何开发、批准、执行、监督和报告的概述。参与临床试验将为研究员提供一个将他们在课堂上学到的知识应用于临床试验的机会。取得适当进展的研究员将有机会在项目导师的指导下，作为项目负责人开发和领导ACRIN试验。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN), a NCl-funded cooperative group, is dedicated to conducting rigorous, high quality clinical trials of medical imaging technologies as they relate to cancer. However, the rarity in the past of high quality trials in medical imaging has meant that few radiologists have gained the necessary skills to design and conduct trials or to lead multi-disciplinary teams. ACRIN recognizes that the success of any endeavor to conduct trials of medical imaging is dependent on increasing the cadre of investigators who are sufficiently trained in methodology and organization to develop and lead clinical trials. ACRIN is proposing a fellowship program that insures a succession of trained investigators who will ultimately improve the conduct of rigorous trials into the future and lay the foundations for broader applications of clinical trials in medical imaging. The ACRIN Fellowship program has the following objectives: 1) Train imaging researchers in a multidisciplinary environment to develop and conduct rigorous, multi-institutional clinical trials in medical imaging; 2) Develop competent clinical trials researchers for future leadership in ACRIN and other imaging clinical trials; and 3) Equip radiologists with the knowledge and skills necessary to be competitive for federal clinical research funding. The proposed program seeks to recruit and train, over a two-year program, three individuals per year. The program entails formal on-site education and progressively increasing responsibility working with ACRIN trial teams. The formal educational program will address principles of trial design and an overview of how federally funded clinical trials are developed, approved, executed, supervised, and reported. Involvement in clinical trials will provide an opportunity for fellows to apply what they have learned in the classroom to conducting trials. Fellows who have suitably progreessed will be given an opportunity to develop and lead an ACRIN trial as PI under the tutelege of Program mentors.