Research Training in Brain Injury Rehabilitation

描述（由申请人提供）：此修订后的竞争性更新机构国家研究服务奖申请描述了医学康复研究的博士后培训计划，重点是儿童，青少年和成人脑损伤康复的研究培训。每年培养4名博士后水平的受训者，为期2-3年，每年培养3名博士预科生，每年培养3个月。该培训项目是在巴尔的摩的肯尼迪克里格研究所（KKI）进行的，该研究所是约翰霍普金斯大学医学院校园内的一个主要中心，专注于儿童脑损伤和其他神经系统疾病的临床护理和研究。受训者还将有机会与巴尔的摩好撒玛利亚医院和约翰霍普金斯医院的约翰霍普金斯大学物理医学和康复系的教师一起工作。该计划的目标是：(1)培养临床医生和基础科学家，他们将继续为推进神经康复做出重要贡献；(2)使这些受训者具备成为独立的资助研究人员所需的技能。培训的重点是在脑损伤相关领域的假设驱动的临床和/或实验室为基础的研究指导时期。教师在六个主要康复主题中的一个或多个方面具有专业知识(1)认知和行为康复；(2)运动恢复；（三）医疗康复的一般原则；(4)脑损伤机制与可塑性；(5)神经影像;(6)康复干预的流行病学和结果。每周一系列的研讨会、查访、讲座和教学课程将学员聚集在一起，学习儿童神经康复的核心信息。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This revised competing renewal Institutional National Research Service Award application describes a post-doctoral training program in medical rehabilitation research that focuses on research training in brain injury rehabilitation in children, adolescents and adults. It is proposed to train 4 post-doctoral level trainees each year for a total period of 2-3 years and 3 predoctoral students for 3 months each per year. The training program is based at the Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) in Baltimore, a major center focused on the clinical care and research for children with brain injuries and other neurological disorders on the campus of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Trainees will also have the opportunity to work with faculty from the Johns Hopkins University Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation based at the Good Samaritan Hospital and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The goals of the program are to (1) train clinicians and basic scientists who will go on to make important contributions that advance neurological rehabilitation; and (2) to equip these trainees with the skills needed to become independent grant-funded investigators. The focus of the training is a mentored period of hypothesis-driven clinical and/or laboratory-based research in areas related to brain injury. Faculty have expertise in one or more of six major rehabilitation themes (1) cognitive and behavioral recovery; (2) motor recovery; (3) general principles of medical rehabilitation; (4) mechanisms of brain injury and plasticity; (5) neuroimaging; or (6) epidemiology and outcomes of rehabilitation interventions. A weekly series of seminars, rounds, lectures and didactic course work brings together trainees to learn core information about neurorehabilitation in children.