Multidisciplinary Rheumatology Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案是国家研究服务奖机构研究培训补助金（T32）的竞争性续期申请，以进一步支持约翰霍普金斯大学的多学科流变学培训计划。在过去的4年里，该计划经历了大幅增长和杰出的实习生成就，包括出版物，培训后的教师任命率很高，以及获得独立，同行评审资金的非常高的比率。我们证明，该计划的整体发展轨迹是非常积极的，具有优秀的部门和机构资源，可用于风湿病学博士后研究员，该计划教师的大幅增长和增强，以及申请人（包括女性和代表性不足的少数民族）的高度竞争力，大大超过目前可用的插槽。该计划拥有非常敬业和高度专业的内部和外部咨询委员会。该计划教师的成员有广泛的兴趣和专业知识，并在风湿性疾病，免疫学，分子生物学和遗传学，细胞生物学，流行病学和生物统计学证明导师。该计划的总体目标仍然是通过严格的研究方法指导和沉浸在优秀的质量指导研究项目中，培养优秀的学术流变学家。我们的培训环境专注于提供富有成效的临床，基础和转化研究培训计划。将追求以下具体目标：[1]为风湿病学博士后研究员提供严格的研究方法培训，适用于临床和基础研究的开展; [2]利用卓越的临床中心提供明确的风湿病患者人群，使研究员项目能够在已建立的患者队列中进行;[3]在全国知名教师的监督下，从事高素质的研究项目，解决重要问题的博士后研究员; [4]为每个博士后研究员整合多层次的指导，以完成富有成效的研究，独立性和成功的学术生涯的发展;和[5]评估，并根据需要修改（通过纳入学员，培训计划教师和内部和外部咨询委员会的反馈），通过评估学术和计划成就的基准，包括同行评审的出版物，外部研究资金，培训后的学术地位，以及招聘代表性不足的少数民族，这种培训环境的成果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is a competitive renewal application for a National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training Grant (T32) to further support a Multidisciplinary Rheumatology Training Program at Johns Hopkins. Over the past 4 years, the program has undergone substantial growth and outstanding trainee achievement, including publications, a high rate of faculty appointment after training, and a very high rate of acquisition of independent, peer-reviewed funding. We demonstrate that the overall trajectory of this program is steeply positive, with outstanding divisional and institutional resources available to postdoctoral fellows in rheumatology, substantial growth and enhancement of the program faculty, and a highly competitive pool of applicants (including women and under-represented minorities) that significantly exceed currently available slots. The program has very engaged and highly expert internal and external advisory committees. Members of the program faculty have a breadth of interests and expertise, and are proven mentors in the rheumatic diseases, immunology, molecular biology and genetics, cell biology, epidemiology and biostatistics. The overall goal of this program remains the development of outstanding academic rheumatologists, through rigorous instruction in research methodology and immersion in outstanding quality mentored research projects. Our training environment is focused on providing a productive clinical, basic and translational research training program. The following specific aims will be pursued: [1] Provide rigorous training in investigational methods to rheumatology postdoctoral fellows, applicable to the conduct of both clinical and basic research; [2] Utilize clinical centers of excellence to provide access to well-defined rheumatic disease patient populations, enabling fellow projects to be conducted on established patient cohorts; [3] Engage postdoctoral fellows in high caliber research projects addressing important questions under the supervision of nationally renowned faculty; [4] Integrate multi-layered mentorship for each postdoctoral fellow to accomplish productive research, independence, and development of a successful academic career; and [5] Assess, and modify (through incorporating feedback from trainees, training program faculty, and internal and external advisory committees) as needed, the outcomes of this training environment through assessing benchmarks of academic and programmatic achievement, including peer-reviewed publications, external research funding, post-training academic position, and recruitment of underrepresented minorities.