TNPRC Nonhuman Primate Clinical Medicine Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：NCRR优先培训足够数量的非人类灵长类(NHP)临床医学兽医，以便为NIH资助的国家灵长类动物研究中心和其他NHP资源提供支持，以满足国家的生物医学、行为和翻译研究需求。这项申请申请资金，在杜兰国家灵长类动物研究中心(TNPRC)为兽医创建一个教育项目。该计划的目标是为将在生物医学研究中维护和使用NHP的环境中使用他们的技能的兽医提供完善的临床医学培训。为这些环境做好准备需要兽医接受最现代的诊断、医疗和外科技术方面的培训。为了充分发挥他们在NHP研究环境中的潜力，兽医应该能够将他们的临床知识转移到研究环境中。 除了提供必要的技能来维持NHP繁育群体的法规遵从性和健康，拟议的TNPRC项目的毕业生将能够将自己作为团队成员整合到利用NHP模式的研究项目中。拟议的教育计划将为美国实验动物医学院(ACLAM)的董事会资格提供必要的先决条件。由于NHP动物护理和研究计划的专业性，经过培训成为优秀临床医生并在提供研究支持方面接受过教育的兽医将为利用NHP的研究计划提供非凡的力量。TNPRC有在这一理念下培训临床兽医的历史，它培养出了能够很好地融入NHP医学实践的个人，并提供了宝贵的国家研究资源。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The NCRR has placed a priority on training adequate numbers of veterinarians in nonhuman primate (NHP) clinical medicine in order to provide support to the NIH funded National Primate Research Centers and other NHP resources to meet the nation's biomedical, behavioral and translational research needs. This application requests funds to create an educational program for veterinarians at the Tulane National Primate Research Center (TNPRC). The objective of the program is to provide sound training in clinical medicine to veterinarians who will use their skills in environments that maintain and use NHP in biomedical research. Preparation for these environments requires that veterinarians are trained in the most modern diagnostic, medical and surgical techniques available. To fully realize their potential in the NHP research environment, veterinarians should be capable of transferring their clinical knowledge to the research setting. In addition to providing the necessary skills for maintaining regulatory compliance and the health of NHP breeding colonies, the graduates of the proposed TNPRC program will be capable of integrating themselves as team members in research programs that utilize the NHP model. The proposed education program will provide the necessary prerequisites for board eligibility in the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM). Because of the specialized nature of NHP animal care and research programs, veterinarians who are trained to be excellent clinicians and are educated in the provision of research support will offer exceptional strength to research programs that utilize NHPs. The TNPRC has a history of training clinical veterinarians under this philosophy and it has produced individuals who have integrated well into the practice of NHP medicine and provided an invaluable national research resource.