Multidisciplinary Heart and Vascular Diseases

描述（由申请人提供）： 杜克大学医学中心从事心血管疾病领域临床医生和科学家的培训已超过45年。我们的理念是通过创造一个有利于整个大学的课程和部门之间的自然联系的环境来整合培训和研究。无论如何，该计划已经成功地培养了一代杰出的研究人员，他们现在是学术医学领域的杰出教师和领导者。这一成功在很大程度上归功于30年来对心血管训练计划赠款的资助。我们的目标是通过创造一个环境，确保杜克将继续为能够在心血管领域追求成功的研究事业的年轻研究人员的发展做出贡献，以保持这种生产力的历史。此申请是我们长期的心血管训练计划补助金的竞争性更新。在过去的5年里，PI已经实施了一些实质性的变化，我们的计划，努力显着提高我们的学员的教育和研究经验。我们的计划所做的一些改变包括：1）创建医学遗传学培训计划-在研究奖学金期间进行为期2年的教学课程工作，最终获得医学院的硕士学位，2）在每年夏天创建关于赠款写作和指导的每周研讨会系列，3）由受训者对导师进行定期书面评估，由导师对受训者进行定期书面评估，（4）创造一个两-在临床奖学金计划的第一年，为所有研究员提供一个月的基础科学选修课，作为基础科学的介绍。该计划的目标是通过创造一个环境，确保我们的年轻学员发展成为非常成功和创新的独立调查员，继续我们对有才华的物理学家-科学家的培训。(End摘要）

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Duke University Medical Center has been engaged in the training of clinicians and scientists in the area of cardiovascular diseases for over 45 years. The philosophy has been to integrate training and research by creating an environment that facilitates the natural linkages among programs and departments throughout the University. By any measure, the program has succeeded in training a generation of outstanding investigators who are now prominent teachers and leaders in academic medicine. Much of this success can be attributed to 30 years of funding of the Cardiovascular Training Program Grant. Our goal is to maintain this history of productivity by creating an environment that will ensure that Duke will continue to contribute to the development of young investigators capable of pursuing successful research careers in cardiovascular fields. This application is a competitive renewal for our long-standing Cardiovascular Training Program Grant. In the last 5 years, the PI has implemented a number of substantial changes to our program in an effort to significantly enhance the educational and research experience of our trainees. Some examples of changes that have been made to our program include: 1) Creation of the Medical Genetics Training Program - 2-year didactic course work during research fellowship culminating in a Masters Degree from the School of Medicine, 2) Creation of a weekly seminar series on grant writing and mentoring in the summer of each year, 3) Institution of regular written evaluations of mentors by trainees and of trainees by mentors, and 4) Creation of a two-month basic science elective during the first year of the clinical fellowship program for all fellows as an introduction to the basic sciences. The goal of this program is to continue our training of talented Physician-Scientists by creating an environment that will ensure the development of our young trainees into highly successful and innovative independent investigators. (End of Abstract)