Training in Reproductive Sciences

描述(由申请人提供)：在过去的10年里，有几个关于临床科室缺乏足够基础研究的报告。生殖研究培训被列为国家儿童健康和人类发展研究所的五个必要方案领域之一。我们的目标是通过这一培训计划，招聘合格的博士科学家进行生殖科学的博士后培训，并促进他们在该领域的职业发展和留住。这项申请的长期目标是利用妇产科的大量资源和经验，培养和促进在基础和临床研究方面具有双重优势的生殖科学未来领导者的发展。我们在这个项目中的具体目标是选择和招募有才华的博士后研究员，并在高素质导师的实验室提供一个研究培训职位。该研究计划建立在分子生殖内分泌学、生物学和母胎相互作用以及妇科肿瘤学三个小组的九名教师导师的合作努力基础上。因此，这一高度结构化的课程将使学员有机会在华盛顿大学一流的科学环境中成长为一名多方面的生殖科学家。学员将在导师的监督下，积极参与实验室正在进行的研究。此外，医学部和医学园区的资源也被纳入该计划，作为学员的职业发展工具，例如在高度致力于博士后培训并具有博士后培训经验的导师的合作努力下，资助和手稿写作以及职业发展。华盛顿大学医学院新成立的研究生事务办公室也为这些人提供了极好的支持和资源。我们的现行少数族裔招募计划涵盖了详细的战略，并概述了我们在这一重要组成部分所作的严格努力。如果成功实现我们的目标，该计划将培养出训练有素、有竞争力的生殖科学家，他们将以扎实的基础科学方法探索临床、循证问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over the past 10 years there have been several reports concerned with the lack of sufficient basic research in the clinical departments. Research training in reproduction is targeted as one of five needed Program areas within the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. It is our goal, through this Training Program is to recruit qualified Ph.D. scientists to undergo postdoctoral training in Reproductive Science and to facilitate their career development and retention in this field. The long-term objective of this application is to take advantage of the significant resources and experience within the Department of OB/GYN to train and promote the development of future leaders in the reproductive sciences with dual strengths in basic and clinical research. Our specific aim in this program is to select and recruit talented, postdoctoral fellows and offer a research training position in the laboratory of a highly qualified mentor. The research program is built upon collaborative efforts among nine faculty mentors in three subgroups: molecular reproductive endocrinology, biology and maternal-fetal interactions, and gynecologic oncology. Thus, this highly structured Program will allow trainees the opportunity to mature as a multi-faceted reproductive scientist in a superb scientific setting at Washington University. Trainees will actively participate in ongoing research in a laboratory under the mentor's supervision. In addition, resources of the department and the medical campus are incorporated in this Program as career development tools for trainees, such as grant and manuscript writing and career development within the collaborative efforts of mentors highly committed to and experienced in postdoctoral training. The newly founded Office of Post Graduate Affairs at Washington University School of Medicine also provides excellent support and resources to these individuals. Our active Minority Recruitment plan covers detailed strategies and outlines our rigorous efforts at this important component. If successful in our aim, this Program will produce well-trained and competitive reproductive scientists who will pursue clinical, evidence-based questions with a solid, basic science-derived approach.