Postdoctoral Research Training in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

描述（由申请人提供）：麻醉学成功地使术中环境成为一个极其安全的地方，这一成就现已被其他专业认可和模仿，但不应掩盖这样一个事实，即关于整个围手术期经验的重要基本问题仍未得到解答。这些问题包括：1)全麻作用机制；2)围手术期生理状态；3)整个围手术期的安全性；4)改善长期预后；5)急性和慢性疼痛的治疗。然而，维持指导麻醉学领域走向未来的科学基础设施需要一群训练有素、积极进取的临床科学家，他们致力于研究麻醉学领域的重要问题。为了确保麻醉学在科学上的强大未来，约翰霍普金斯大学麻醉学和重症医学系（ACCM）正在提交这份申请，以支持麻醉学博士后研究培训。除了为他们的支持提供一个重要的途径外，预计该项目将为约翰霍普金斯ACCM引入一个更系统的方法来招募、培训和发展下一代麻醉学专业的临床科学家。虽然这是一个新的应用，但ACCM在麻醉学的临床和基础研究训练方面有着悠久而富有成效的历史，这一应用将建立在此基础上并将其正式化。从历史上看，本系一直依靠来自个别实验室或本系的导师为博士后研究培训提供支持。支持博士后培训的更正式的结构方式将对候选人更有吸引力，并将允许与系外的非传统导师进行培训，否则这些导师可能不愿意承担几年培训努力的费用。结合约翰霍普金斯大学已经为教师发展提供的大量资源，麻醉学博士后研究培训基金将为培养临床科学家提供一个绝佳的机会，他们将继续为麻醉学的实践建立科学基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Anesthesiology's success in making the intraoperative environment an extremely safe place, an accomplishment now recognized and emulated by other specialties, should not obscure the fact that important fundamental questions about the entire perioperative experience remain unanswered. These questions include 1) the mechanism of general anesthetic action, 2) physiology of the perioperative state, 3) safety throughout the entire perioperative period, 4) improving long-term outcomes, and 5) the treatment of acute and chronic pain. However, maintaining the scientific infrastructure that will guide the field of Anesthesiology into the future requires a core of well-trained and motivated Clinician-Scientists within the specialty who are dedicated to the pursuit of problems important to Anesthesiology. To help ensure a scientifically robust future for Anesthesiology, the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) at the Johns Hopkins University is submitting this application to support Postdoctoral Research Training in Anesthesiology. In addition to providing a critical avenue for their support, it is anticipated that this program will introduce a more systematic approach for Johns Hopkins ACCM to recruit, train, and develop the next generation of clinician-scientists in the specialty of Anesthesiology. Although this is a new application, ACCM has a long and productive history of clinical and basic research training in Anesthesiology which this application will build upon and formalize. Historically, this Department has relied upon mentors from individual laboratories or the Department to provide support for postdoctoral research training. A more formal structured means of supporting postdoctoral training will be more attractive to candidates and will permit training with non-traditional mentors outside of the Department who might otherwise be unwilling to underwrite the costs of a several year training endeavor. When combined with the considerable resources already in place for faculty development at Johns Hopkins University, an Anesthesiology Postdoctoral Research Training Grant will provide an outstanding opportunity for training clinician-scientists who will continue to build the scientific foundation for the practice of Anesthesiology.