Training in Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases

凯斯西储大学（CWRU）的地理医学和传染病培训计划（AI-07024）自1976年以来一直获得资助，旨在严格培训医生，医生科学家和传染病研究的基础科学家，特别关注全球重要性疾病。我们建议每年培训四名博士后和两名博士前学员。强调传染病研究的跨学科方法，反映了CWRU校园中已经存在的良好的跨部门和国际合作。为了促进这一目标，鼓励学员的双导师制，以提供基础和临床研究培训的独特组合。为此，我们提供39名教师培训师，代表医学和牙科学院的9个部门。这些科学家中的大多数都以跨学科的方式进行了富有成效的合作，并成功地培训了研究和医生科学家。传染病研究和培训活动还在以地理医学司、结核病研究单位、艾滋病研究中心、艾滋病临床试验单位和抗菌研究和流行病学中心为基础的具体方案内进一步组织。其中大多数保持积极的海外研究项目，并支持在CWRU的外国科学家的培训，从而促进国际研究的健康合作环境。该计划已被证明是博士后职业发展的肥沃环境。在过去的十年里，该计划已招募和支持十九名学员（15医学博士，3位博士还有一个医学博士Ph.D.）。在完成培训的14名学员中，有11名（78%）拥有教职，是活跃的研究人员。八个（57%）获得自己的政府资助的研究。自上一次续约以来，我们已成功地将两个博士学位。还有一个医学博士博士科学家实习生加入项目为了满足在CWRU传染病研究中对博士前实习生支持的记录需求，同时进一步扩大该计划的教育多样性，该申请每年寻求2个博士前职位的新资金。由于潜在的重叠问题，我们将把博士后培训生的数量从每年5人减少到4人。受训人员在培训计划的支持下，将100%的时间用于研究培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The training program in Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases (AI-07024) at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), funded continuously since 1976, aims to rigorously train physicians, physician-scientists and basic scientists in infectious diseases research with a special focus on illnesses of global importance. We propose to train four postdoctoral and two predoctoral trainees per year. Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of infectious diseases are emphasized, reflecting well-established interdepartmental and international collaborations already present on the CWRU campus. To facilitate this goal, dual mentorship of trainees is encouraged to provide unique blends of basic and clinical research training. For this purpose, we provide 39 faculty trainers representing nine Departments in the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. Most of these scientists have productively collaborated and successfully trained research and physician scientists in an interdisciplinary manner. Infectious diseases research and training activities are further organized within specific programs based around the Division of Geographic Medicine, the Tuberculosis Research Unit (TBRU), the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), the AIDS Clinical Trial Unit (ACTU) and the Center for Antimicrobial Research and Epidemiology (CARE). Most of these maintain active overseas research projects and support training at CWRU of foreign scientists, thus promoting a healthy collaborative environment for international research. This program has proven to be a fertile environment for postdoctoral career development. In the last ten years, this program has recruited and supported nineteen trainees (15 M.D., 3 Ph.D. and one M.D.-Ph.D.). Of the fourteen trainees that have completed training, eleven (78%) have faculty appointments and are active researchers. Eight (57%) receive their own governmental funding for research. Since the last renewal, we have successfully incorporated two Ph.D. and one M.D.-Ph.D. scientist trainee into the program. To meet a documented need for predoctoral trainee support in infectious diseases research at CWRU, while further broadening the educational diversity of this program, this application seeks new funding for 2 pre-doctoral positions per year. Due to potential overlap concerns, we will decrease numbers of post-doctoral trainees from 5 to 4 per year. Trainees, while supported by the training program, will devote 100% of their time to research training.