Traning Clinical Scientists in Radiological Imaging

描述(由申请人提供)： 加州大学圣地亚哥分校放射学系提出了一项创新的培训计划，旨在培养成像临床科学家。成像在临床护理和生物医学研究中的作用越来越大，这导致了对以成像为基础的临床科学家的迫切需求。全美各地都有一批优秀的放射学住院医师项目申请者，其中只有一小部分人在追求学术生涯。即使是一小部分受训人员也会被培养成临床科学家。本建议中描述的培训计划建立在优秀的临床培训计划和住院医生开始时的研究基础上，然后在剩余的4年内建立在此基础上。五年制课程的申请者将获得三个为期一年的名额。我们的目标是根据申请者的需求定制该项目，并最大限度地提高他们在加州大学圣迭戈分校的研究经验。临床培训除了满足董事会认证的要求外，还将侧重于受训人员特别感兴趣的领域。临床年份将是连续的，以最大限度地促进他们的学习，然而，他们在加州大学圣迭戈分校的整个逗留期间将与他们的研究保持联系。他们的实验室领导在他们的研究年度和临床科学家在整个5年的指导将他们的研究和临床经验联系在一起，并为他们未来的职业生涯提供了一个作为临床科学家的模式。除了研究指导和职业指导外，该计划还包括教学课程以及根据受训者需要量身定做的专门讲座。加州大学圣迭戈分校每周的许多研究研讨会、数据会议、临床和专科会议以及密切指导也是学习经验的重要组成部分。通过Match计划提供的专注于临床科学家职业生涯的综合培训计划确保了所有申请者都有平等的机会，并允许我们及早让住院医生参与他们的培训，从而培养出敬业的训练有素的成像临床科学家。UCSD非常适合培养下一代成像科学家，他们将能够访问UCSD的所有资源以及放射科的成像和实验室资源。通过这项提案中包含的导师，他们拥有培训博士后候选人的丰富经验，受训者将获得70多笔资助的积极赠款，提供超过3000万美元的研究支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Department of Radiology at the University of California, San Diego proposes an innovative training program with the aim of developing imaging clinician scientists. The growing role of imaging in clinical care and biomedical research has resulted in an acute need for imaging-based clinician scientists. There is a talented pool of resident applicants to academic radiology residency programs across the US, with only a small fraction pursuing academic careers. Even a smaller fraction of trainees are developed into clinician scientists. The training program described in this proposal builds on the excellent clinical training programs and the research at the beginning of residency that is then built upon during the remaining 4 years. Three 1- year slot will be made available to applicants to the 5-year program. The goal is to tailor the program to the needs of the applicant and to maximize their research experience at UCSD. Clnical training will focus on areas of specific interest to the trainee in addition to meeting the requirement for board certification. The clinical years will be consecutive to maximize their learning, however, they will maintian contact with their research throughout their stay at UCSD. The mentorship by their laboratory leader during their research year and by the clinical scientist throughout the 5 years will tie their research and clinical experiences and provide them a model for future careeers as clinical scientist. In addition to the research precepterships and career mentorships, the program includes didactic courses as well as specialized lectures tailored to the need of the trainee. The many weekly research seminars at UCSD, data meetings, clinical and specialty conferences and close mentoring also represent significant components of the learning experience. An intergrated training program focusing on the career of clinical scientist that is offered through the Match program ensures equal access to all applicants and allows us to engage residents early in their training resulting in committed well-trained imaging clinical scientists. UCSD is well suited to train the next generation of Imaging scientist who will have access to all of UCSD resources and the imaging and laboratory resources of the Department of Radiology. Through the mentors included in this proposal who have extensive experience training postdoctoral candidates, trainees will have access to over 70 funded active grants providing over $30M of research support.