NEMCH Clinical Research on AIDS Training Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：这是塔夫茨-新英格兰医学中心地理医学和传染病部（ggmd）的艾滋病临床培训补助金的竞争性更新提案，是与布朗大学医学院/米利亚姆医院艾滋病毒项目的互动项目。我们的目标是继续培训艾滋病毒/艾滋病临床研究方法的研究人员，重点是两个项目各自的独特优势。这些包括：艾滋病毒的营养和代谢问题，艾滋病毒的特殊人群，包括妇女，少数民族，注射吸毒者，监禁人群，结果研究和决策分析，国际艾滋病研究，艾滋病毒/艾滋病的临床研究，包括布朗大学的艾滋病临床试验单位和我们自己的基本艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究项目。通过教授核心方法，并在经验丰富、能力强的导师的指导下，由学员设计和开展指导临床研究，我们希望培训下一代艾滋病临床研究人员，使其达到有竞争力获得独立资助的水平，从而使他们的工作和培训补助金的工作对艾滋病毒感染者的临床实践和结果产生直接影响和改善。我们每年要求3个资助职位；每个受训者都可以选择临床研究学位课程，并进行指导研究项目。对受训者的教学培训，无论他们是否选择学位课程，都将强调研究设计的基本方法。获得这项培训资助的教员得到了特别充足的资金，许多教员都在以艾滋病研究中心（CFAR）、福格蒂亚洲艾滋病培训项目和艾滋病与营养项目的形式进行着卓有成效的合作。通过师友制度，包括两所院校教员在内的助学金执行委员会，以及包括两所院校教员在内的每位学员的研究协调委员会，我们打算为每位学员提供个性化和优化的培训机会。广泛的评估过程，包括书面报告和向培训补助金的全体教员介绍研究结果，将确保每位受训人员在其职业发展方面得到充分支持，并充分利用所提供的培训机会的深度和广度。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This competitive renewal proposal for an AIDS Clinical Training Grant from the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases (GMID) at the Tufts-New England Medical Center is submitted as an interactive program with the Brown University School of Medicine/Miriam Hospital HIV program. Our goal is to continue to train investigators in methods of HIV/AIDS clinical research with an emphasis on the unique strengths of the two programs individually. These include: nutritional and metabolic issues in HIV, special populations in HIV including women, ethnic minorities, injection drug users, and incarcerated populations, outcomes research and decision analysis, international AIDS research, and clinical studies in HIV/AIDS including an AIDS Clinical Trial Unit based at Brown and those based on our own basic HIV/AIDS research programs. By teaching core methods together with mentored clinical research designed and carried out by trainees under the supervision of experienced and able mentors, we expect to train the next generation of AIDS clinical investigators to a level competitive for independent funding, so that their work and the work of the training grant will have a direct impact on and improve clinical practice and outcomes in HIV infected patients. We have requested 3 funded positions per year; each trainee has the option of electing a degree program in clinical research as well as conducting a mentored research project. Didactic training for trainees, whether they select a degree program, will emphasize basic methodology in study design. The faculty for this training grant is exceptionally well funded and many of the faculty have ongoing, productive collaborations in the form of a Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), a Fogarty Training Program in HIV for Asia and a Program Project in HIV and Nutrition. Through the mentoring system, the Executive Committee of the Grant, which included faculty from both institutions, and each trainee's Research Coordination Committee, again including faculty from both institutions, we intend to individualize and optimize training opportunities for each trainee. An extensive evaluation process, including written reports and presentation of research results to the whole faculty of the training grant will ensure that each trainee is fully supported in his/her career development and that they take full advantage of the depth and breadth of the training opportunities offered.