Cardiovascular Surgery Research Training Grant

描述(由申请人提供)： 拟议的心血管外科研究培训计划是多学科的，NIH资助的心胸外科医生、心脏病学家、流行病学家和基础科学家将组成教员。教师不仅从贝丝以色列女执事医疗中心招聘，还从其他哈佛医院、哈佛医学院、哈佛公共卫生学院和其他附属机构招聘。这些教师的选择在很大程度上是根据他们以前培训研究员的记录以及他们作为学术内科医生和科学家的声誉。在血管生理学和分子生物学、心脏生理学和分子细胞生物学、移植免疫学、组织工程学、心脏病理学和临床结果研究等领域有机会进行基础和临床研究。该计划由计划主任(Sellke博士)和指导委员会管理，并与积极的临床服务密切相关。此外，根据研究人员的需要，还提供正式和非正式的课程工作和研讨会。受训人员(每年4名)的任期为2年，从外科培训的第三年开始。受训者被分配到由教员指导的许多活跃实验室中的一个。学员在实验室培训中选择实验室和导师，并由项目主任和教职员工提供建议和持续监控进度。在完成他们的研究培训后，研究员将完成他们的外科住院医师，然后预计将完成心胸外科的住院医师。预计这一心血管外科研究培训计划将帮助该专业在经济、临床和教育不确定的时期继续培养优秀的学术外科医生。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed program of training in cardiovascular surgery research is multidisciplinary in that NIH funded cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiologists, epidemiologists and basic scientists will make up the faculty. Faculty were recruited from not only Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, but also from the other Harvard Hospitals, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health and other Affiliated Institutions. The faculty were chosen in large part based on their prior record of training research fellows and their reputation as academic physicians and scientists. Opportunities are available for basic and clinical research in the areas of vascular physiology and molecular biology, cardiac physiology and molecular and cellular biology, transplantation immunology, tissue engineering, cardiac pathology, and clinical outcomes research. The program is administered by the Program Director (Dr Sellke) and the Steering Committee and is carried on in close relationship to active clinical services. In addition, formal and informal course work and seminars are made available, depending on the research fellow needs. Trainees (4 each year) are appointed for a 2 year term beginning after the third year of surgical training. Trainees are assigned to one of many active laboratories directed by the faculty. Trainees select the laboratory and mentor of choice for their laboratory training, with advice from and ongoing monitoring of progress by the Program Director and faculty. Following completion of their research training, fellows will complete their surgical residency, and then be expected to complete a residency in cardiothoracic surgery. It is anticipated that this program in cardiovascular surgery research training will help the specialty continue to train outstanding academic surgeons in times of financial, clinical, and educational uncertainty.