Training in Reproductive Sciences

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的10年里，有一些关于临床部门缺乏足够基础研究的报告。生殖方面的研究培训是国家儿童健康和人类发展研究所五个需要的方案领域之一。我们的目标是通过该培训计划招收符合条件的博士科学家进行生殖科学博士后培训，并促进他们在该领域的职业发展和保留。这项申请的长期目标是利用妇产科的重要资源和经验，培养和促进生殖科学领域未来领导者的发展，在基础和临床研究方面具有双重优势。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，并提供一个高素质导师的实验室研究培训职位。该研究项目建立在三个小组的九名教师导师的合作基础上：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。因此，这个高度结构化的项目将使受训者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。受训者将在导师的指导下积极参与正在进行的实验室研究。此外，该系和医学院的资源也被纳入该项目，作为实习生的职业发展工具，如资助和手稿写作，以及在高度致力于博士后培训和经验丰富的导师的共同努力下的职业发展。华盛顿大学医学院新成立的研究生事务办公室也为这些个人提供了极好的支持和资源。我们积极的少数族裔招聘计划涵盖了详细的战略，概述了我们在这一重要组成部分的严格努力。如果我们的目标取得成功，该项目将培养出训练有素、具有竞争力的生殖科学家，他们将以扎实的、基础科学衍生的方法来追求临床、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.