Training Program in the Pathophysiology of Renal Disease

描述（由申请人提供）： 我们的培训计划的目标是准备临床研究人员和基础医学科学家在肾脏疾病领域的生产，独立的调查事业。这将需要至少2年的接触密集的实验室经验或临床研究密切合作的程序教师之一。候选人必须是医学博士谁已经完成了批准的内科住院医师或博士在生物医学领域。肾脏病学领域的许多根本性进展是由于实验室研究越来越多地转移到临床实践。因此，我们的培训计划将强调肾脏生理学和病理生理学的实验室和临床/翻译研究。该计划教师的质量和敬业精神是保证研究培训成功的主要因素。因此，该计划的教师仅限于积极的，持续资助的基于实验室或临床/翻译研究计划的研究人员，这些计划具有记录在案的培训记录，可以为学员提供实践研究经验。该计划的教师代表了来自医学，病理学，药理学和毒理学，生物化学，老年医学和生理学系的紧密互动的多学科教师，包括6名MD，6名博士，2名MD/博士和2名MD/MPH。虽然每个成员都在自己的权利进行他的具体资助计划，大多数程序教师相互交流，并定期开会讨论各自的研究工作，以及探索合作项目。这种实验室间的合作非常有助于扩大研究人员的视野，使他们熟悉解决科学问题的各种方法和多学科战略方法。学员可以选择获得MPH学位，或者参加由公共卫生学院和其他部门赞助的定期活动，这些活动针对科学方法和统计分析;参加医学，生理学和生物化学赞助的会议;并参加作为计划项目的一部分举行的每周研究会议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of our training program is to prepare clinical investigators and basic medical scientists for productive, independent investigative careers in the area of renal disease. This would require a minimum of 2 years exposure to intensive laboratory experience or clinical research working closely with one of the program faculty. Candidates must be MDs who have completed an approved Internal Medicine Residency or PhDs in a biomedical field. Many of the fundamental advances in the field of Nephrology are as a result of laboratory-based research being increasingly transferred to clinical practice. Accordingly, our training program will emphasize both laboratory-based and clinical/translation research in the physiology and pathophysiology of the kidney. The quality and the dedicated effort of the program faculty are primary factors assuring success of the research training. Consequently, the program faculty is limited to investigators with active, on going funded laboratory-based or clinical/translation research programs with documented training records who can provide hands-on research experience for trainees. The program faculty represents a closely-knit interacting multidisciplinary faculty from the departments of Medicine, Pathology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Biochemistry, Geriatrics and Physiology and includes 6 MDs, 6 PhDs, 2 MD/PhDs, and 2 MD/MPHs. While each individual member conducts his specific-funded program in his own right, most of the program faculty interact with each other and meet on a regular basis to discuss respective research efforts as well as explore collaborative projects. Such inter-laboratory cooperation is very useful for expanding the outlook of research fellows who become familiar with a wider variety of methods and multidisciplinary strategic approaches to the solution of scientific problems. The trainees have the option of obtaining an MPH degree or are expected to participate in regularly scheduled activities sponsored by the School of Public Health and other departments targeted toward the scientific method and statistical analysis; attend conferences sponsored by Medicine, Physiology and Biochemistry; and attend the weekly research conference held as a part of Program Project.