Multidisciplinary Rheumatology Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)： 这项提案是对国家研究服务奖机构研究培训补助金(T32)的修订申请，以资助约翰·霍普金斯医疗机构的多学科风湿病培训计划。总体目标是支持培训和促进优秀学术风湿病专家的发展。该计划将招聘、培训和加强初级风湿病研究人员的发展，并在研究方法和指导研究项目方面为学员提供严格的指导。这些研究人员将通过他们在研究方面的卓越表现来加深我们对人类风湿病的了解。我们展示了风湿病学博士后可以利用的杰出的部门和机构资源，包括在临床调查、免疫学、分子生物学和遗传学、细胞生物学、微生物学、流行病学和生物统计学领域具有杰出导师的计划教员，并详细描述了实现总体目标的培训计划。 我们的培训环境专注于提供富有成效的临床、基础和转化性研究培训计划。将追求以下具体目标：[1]为风湿学博士后研究员提供严格的研究方法培训，适用于临床和基础研究；[2)利用临床英才中心提供接触明确定义的风湿病患者群体的途径，使伙伴项目能够在实际水平上，在已建立的患者队列上进行；[3)在国家知名教师的指导下，邀请博士后研究员参与高水平的研究项目，解决临床上重要的问题；[4]整合每个博士后研究员的多层次指导，以完成生产性研究、独立性和成功的学术生涯；以及[5]通过学员成就基准来评估培训计划的结果，包括提交同行评审的出版物、接受外部研究资助和培训后的学术职位，同时纳入学员、培训计划教职员工以及内部和外部咨询委员会的反馈，以相应地修改计划。 项目主任(罗森博士)、联席主任(威格利博士和盖尔伯博士)和另外20名调查人员担任受训人员的教职顾问。两个科学家咨询委员会，一个由机构教员组成(内部咨询委员会)，另一个由约翰霍普金斯大学以外的教员组成(外部咨询委员会)，将向主任提供建议并监测进展情况。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is a revised application for a National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training Grant (T32) to fund a Multidisciplinary Rheumatology Training Program at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. The overall goal is to support the training and foster the development of outstanding academic rheumatologists. The program will recruit, train and enhance the development of junior rheumatology investigators, and provide trainees with rigorous instruction in research methodology and mentored research projects. These investigators will further our understanding of human rheumatic diseases through their excellence in research. We demonstrate the outstanding divisional and institutional resources available to postdoctoral fellows in rheumatology, including program faculty who are exceptional mentors in the disciplines of clinical investigation, immunology, molecular biology and genetics, cell biology, microbiology, epidemiology and biostatistics, and describe in detail the training program to achieve the overall goal. Our training environment is focused on providing a productive clinical, basic and translational research training program. The following specific aims will be pursued: [1] Provide rigorous training in investigational methods to rheumatology postdoctoral fellows, applicable to the conduct of both clinical and basic research; [2] Utilize clinical centers of excellence to provide access to well-defined rheumatic disease patient populations, enabling fellow projects to be conducted, at a practical level, on established patient cohorts; [3] Engage postdoctoral fellows in high caliber research projects addressing clinically important questions under the supervision of nationally renowned faculty; [4] Integrate multi-layered mentorship for each postdoctoral fellow to accomplish productive research, independence, and development of a successful academic career; and [5] Assess the outcomes of this training program through benchmarks of trainee accomplishment, including submission of peer-reviewed publications, receipt of external research funding and post-training academic position, while incorporating feedback from trainees, training program faculty, and internal and external advisory committees to modify the program accordingly. The Program Director (Dr. Rosen), Co-Directors (Drs. Wigley and Gelber), and twenty additional investigators serve as faculty advisors to the trainees. Two advisory committees of scientists, one consisting of Institutional faculty (Internal Advisory Committee), the other of faculty outside Johns Hopkins (External Advisory Committee), will advise the Directors and monitor progress.