Clinical Research Career Development (RMI)

描述（由申请人提供）：马里兰州大学多学科临床研究职业发展计划将支持临床学者在所有类型的临床研究，包括以患者为导向的研究，转化研究，小型和大型临床调查和试验，以及流行病学研究的早期职业发展。 马里兰州计划的特点包括：1）由巴尔的摩的马里兰州大学的四所专业学校参与（医学，护理，牙科和药学的UMB学校），确保培训的多样性和多学科的机会; 2）大量经验丰富，资金充足的小学和中学导师在广泛的学科; 3）现有的K30临床研究课程对学者教学培训的优势; 4）对该计划的强大机构承诺，包括对导师的支持和保护，以及为临床学者及其临床研究团队提供新装修的办公室/会议空间; 5）教师，项目领导和研究参与者的多样性; 6）全国第一个电子IRB系统之一; 7）与基因组研究所（TIGR）的科学家合作提供的富集培训学者在基因组学的应用，以临床研究;和8）的支持UMB一般临床研究中心进行学者的项目。 在不同的科学和研究学科的背景下，该计划将指导学者发展和协调多学科研究团队。 每一届学者都将被公认为UMB新一代临床研究人员的精英。 马里兰州大学多学科临床研究职业发展计划将成为吸引高质量初级教师和培训这些学者在UMB临床研究的主要机制。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Maryland Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program will support the early career development of clinical scholars in all types of clinical research, including patient-oriented research, translational research, small- and large-scale clinical investigation and trials, and epidemiologic studies. The University of Maryland Program is distinguished by a number of features including: 1) participation by four professional schools at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, and Pharmacy), assuring diversity and multidisciplinary opportunities for training; 2) a large number of experienced and well funded primary and secondary mentors over a broad range of disciplines; 3) the strength of its existing K30 Clinical Research Curriculum for scholars' didactic training; 4) the robust institutional commitment to the program, which includes support and protection of the mentors, and provision of newly renovated office/conference space for the clinical scholars and their clinical research teams; 5) the diversity of the faculty, program leadership, and research participants; 6) one of the nation's first electronic IRB systems; 7) the enrichment provided by the collaboration with scientists at The Institute of Genomic Research (TIGR) for training scholars in applications of genomics to clinical research; and 8) the support of the UMB General Clinical Research Center for the conduct of scholars' projects. Within the context of diverse scientific and investigational disciplines, the program will instruct scholars in the development and coordination of a multidisciplinary research team. Each class of scholars will be recognized as the elite new generation of clinical researchers at UMB. The University of Maryland Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program will be the primary mechanism for attracting high quality junior faculty and training these Scholars in clinical research at UMB.