ACADEMIC RHEUMATOLOGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY

描述(由申请人提供)： 加州大学旧金山分校学术风湿学和临床免疫学培训计划的总体目标是为计划从事学术风湿学职业的具有医学博士、医学博士或博士学位的合格个人提供高级研究培训。该计划为学员提供了一个环境，他们可以：(1)在选定的专业领域从事课程工作；(2)学习如何深入研究科学问题；(3)掌握最先进的技术；以及(4)了解什么是好的科学。 我们计划的培训利用了莫菲特-朗大学医院、旧金山综合医院和旧金山退伍军人医疗中心风湿科的资源。此外，我们的培训资助是为数不多的，如果不是唯一支持成人和儿童风湿病/免疫学培训的培训资助之一。将儿科风湿学纳入我们的培训助学金是当前助学金周期的一个主要目标，它通过为顶尖学术中心(康奈尔、科罗拉多和加州大学旧金山分校)的教员职位准备首批三名儿科实习生而取得了重大成就之一。 加州大学旧金山分校的风湿学和临床免疫学课程具有不同的优势，为学员提供了广泛的机会。二十多年来，我们的项目在医学科学中发展最快的两个领域--基础生物医学研究和卫生服务研究/结果研究--具有特别的优势。这些优势领域是基础科学最近取得的前所未有的进步以及在卫生保健提供方面的重要国家辩论和演变的核心。最近，我们增加了两个主要的新研究项目：风湿病遗传流行病学和风湿病新生物疗法的临床试验。这种广泛的活动为医学系、儿科和免疫学系的教职员工和实习生之间的合作创造了一个出色的环境。在这种情况下，基础科学家和临床科学家之间以及成人和儿科风湿病专家之间的实质性互动，创造了一种尊重我们学科所有方面的氛围。 这笔培训补助金支持六名高素质的学员通过两三年的严格科学培训，目的是让他们在以后的职业生涯中致力于风湿性和免疫性疾病的研究。

DESCRIPTION(Provided by Applicant): The overall goal of the Academic Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Training Program at UCSF is to provide advanced research training to qualified individuals with MD, MD/PhD, or PhD degrees who plan to pursue careers in academic rheumatology. This program provides trainees with an environment in which they can: (1) pursue course work in a chosen area of concentration; (2) learn how to investigate a scientific problem in depth; (3) master state-of-the-art techniques; and (4) understand what constitutes good science. Training in our program takes advantage of the resources of the Rheumatology Divisions at Moffitt-Long University Hospital, San Francisco General Hospital, and the San Francisco VA Medical Center. In addition, our training grant is one of the few, if not the only training grant that supports training in both adult and pediatric rheumatology/immunology. The integration of pediatric rheumatology into our training grant was a major goal of the current grant cycle, and it has produced one of the major achievements by preparing the first three pediatric trainees for faculty positions at top academic centers (Cornell, Colorado, and UCSF). The UCSF program in Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology has diverse strengths that provide a broad range of opportunities for trainees. For over two decades, our program has had particular strength in two of the most rapidly developing areas of medical science - basic biomedical research, and health services research/outcomes research. These areas of strength are at the heart of the unprecedented recent advances in basic science and the important national debate and evolution in health care delivery. More recently, we have added two major new research programs: genetic epidemiology of rheumatic diseases, and clinical trials of novel biologic therapies for rheumatic diseases. This breadth of activity creates an outstanding environment for collaboration among faculty and trainees in the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Immunology. In this context, substantive interactions among basic scientists and clinical scientists, and among adult and pediatric rheumatologists, create an atmosphere of respect for all aspects of our discipline. This training grant supports six highly qualified trainees through two or three years of rigorous scientific training, with the objective that they will devote their subsequent careers to the study of the rheumatic and immunologic diseases.