Indiana Medical Scientist/Engineer Training Program

描述(申请人提供)：这是印第安纳大学医学院医学科学家培训项目的新申请。我们的计划侧重于印第安纳大学医学院已经建立的卓越跨学科研究领域的培训。我们计划的另一个创新方面是利用我们与普渡大学生物医学工程教员的强大研究和培训合作，包括对医生-生物医学工程师的培训。印第安纳大学医学院和普渡大学生物医学工程研究项目在过去10年中的显著扩展为培养积极进取的学生成为内科科学家提供了一个独特的、互动的和支持性的环境。医学院领导层对内科科学家在参与基础科学发现并将其转化为临床的关键作用的广泛认可，导致医学博士/博士项目在医学院所有培训项目中获得最高优先级。此外，这项计划得到了医学院内基础科学和临床部门的广泛支持。每个基础科学系和医学课程委员会都仔细审查和修改了各自课程的许多方面，以加强医学和研究培训的整合，并为医学院内的学者社区提供支持性基础设施。该计划的目标是培养有吸引力的内科科学家，他们具有最高的职业价值，并准备在假设驱动的、调查者发起的研究中追求作为临床调查人员的职业生涯。在现有资源的情况下，我们每年可以始终如一地支持5名学生。我们从NIH寻求的支持是：(1)肯定该计划是一个值得在MSTP网站上列出的实质性培训计划；(2)为每年2名学生提供财政支持，使我们能够将该计划扩大到每年7名学生。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a new application for a medical scientist training program from Indiana University School of Medicine. Our program is focused on training in interdisciplinary areas of research that Indiana University School of Medicine has established excellence. An additional innovative aspect of our program is the utilization of our strong research and training collaborations with faculty in biomedical engineering at Purdue University to include the training of physician-biomedical engineers. The significant expansion of research programs at both Indiana University School of Medicine and in biomedical engineering at Purdue University over the past 10 years provides a unique, interactive, and supportive environment to train highly motivated students to become physician-scientists. Broad recognition within the leadership of the School of Medicine regarding the critical role of physician-scientists in both participating and translating basic science discovery to the clinic, has resulted in the M.D. / Ph.D. program receiving the highest priority of all training programs within the School of Medicine. Further, this program has broad support from both basic science and clinical departments within the School of Medicine. Each basic science department and the medical curriculum committee have carefully reviewed and revised many aspects of their respective programs to enhance the integration of medical and research training and to provide a supportive infrastructure for this community of Scholars within the School of Medicine. It is the goal of this program to train engaging physician-scientists who have the highest of professional values, and who are poised to pursue careers as clinical investigators in hypothesis-driven, investigator - initiated research. With existing resources, we can consistently, support 5 students per year. The support that we seek from the NIH is: (1) an affirmation of this program as a substantive training program meritorious of listing on the MSTP website; and (2) financial support for 2 students per year to allow us to expand the program to 7 students per year.