Core--Education and training

2001年9月11日对世界贸易中心和五角大楼的恐怖袭击清楚地提醒人们，平民人口大规模参与放射性恐怖事件的潜在风险。在冷战时期，由于需要先进的进攻性系统，即洲际导弹，以运载核弹头，核暴露的威胁受到限制。相比之下，目前辐射暴露的风险更大 强大的威胁。与此同时，国际恐怖主义的抬头，以及生产易于运输的放射性扩散装置的能力也是如此，即所谓的“脏弹”。 就在国家(和国际)日益需要训练有素的生物医学人员有效应对放射性恐怖袭击或核事件的关键时刻，受过适当训练的合格人员的数量正在显著减少。政府对辐射科学许多领域的教育和培训的支持在过去30年里有所下降。在放射肿瘤学中，内科科学家的数量 在过去十年中减少了50%以上，大多数辐射生物学家将在未来十年内退休。在辐射的生物和/或医学影响方面拥有必要知识和专业知识的科学家、医生和应急人员的人数正在减少和老龄化。正如最近在《辐射研究》的一篇社论中指出的那样，“一场危机即将到来。”确保成功创建和维护医疗 针对辐射的对策将需要创建专门的研究培训计划，旨在培养拥有应对任何辐射攻击所需的共同知识和专业知识基础的基础科学家、医学物理学家和临床医生。支持重建综合辐射培训方案，培养具有辐射化学、辐射物理和辐射物理方面共同知识的医学博士和博士 放射生物学和放射医学是最重要的。如果没有这样的支持，美国将无法对涉及大量平民的放射性恐怖事件做出充分反应。核心F是RadCCORE提案的教育/培训部分，它将利用维克森林大学和杜克大学现有的杰出专业知识，提供辐射生物学和辐射/健康物理方面的“实践”培训和重要的教育专业知识。通过以CD/DVD形式提供的一系列教学讲座、实验室培训经验以及年度研讨会和研讨会，RadCCORE联盟内的教职员工和受训人员将获得基本的知识基础。辐射生物学和物理学，以维持和发展辐射科学所需的专门知识。

The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, provided a stark reminder of the potential risk of large-scale involvement of the civilian population in a radiological terrorist event. During the era of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear exposure was limited by the need for sophisticated offensive systems, i.e., intercontinental missiles, to deliver the nuclear warhead. In contrast, the current risk for radiation exposure is a more potent threat. The rise of international terrorism has occurred at the same time, as has the ability to produce easily transportable radioactive dispersal devices, so-called "dirty bombs." At the very time when there is a critical, increased national (and international) need for highly trained biomedical personnel to respond effectively to a radiological terrorist attack or nuclear incident, the number of suitably trained and qualified individuals is deceasing markedly. Government support for education and training in many areas of the radiation sciences has declined over the last 3 decades. In radiation oncology, the number of physician-scientists has decreased by more than 50% in the last decade, and the majority of radiation biologists will be retiring within the coming decade. The population of scientists, physicians and emergency responders with the necessary knowledge and expertise in the biological and/or medical effects of radiation is shrinking and aging. As noted in a recent editorial in Radiation Research, "A crisis is visible on the horizon." Ensuring the successful creation and maintenance of medical countermeasures against radiation will necessitate the creation of specialized research training programs aimed at producing basic scientists, medical physicists and clinicians that possess a common base of knowledge and expertise required to respond to any radiological assault. Support for the reestablishment of comprehensive radiation training programs that produce MDs and PhDs with a common base of knowledge in radiation chemistry, radiation physics, and radiation biology and radiation medicine is paramount. Without such support, the US will be unable to respond adequately to a radiological terrorist event involving large numbers of the civilian population. Core F, the Education/Training component of the RadCCORE proposal, will provide both the "hands-on" training and the vital educational expertise in radiation biology and radiation/health physics using the outstanding expertise available at Wake Forest and Duke Universities. Through series of didactic lectures available on CD/DVD, laboratory training experiences, as well as Annual Seminar Series and Workshops, the faculty and trainees within the RadCCORE consortium will receive the basic foundation of knowledge in. radiation biology and physics to maintain and indeed grow the required expertise in radiation sciences.