Postdoctoral Research Training in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

描述（由申请人提供）：麻醉学成功地使术中环境成为一个非常安全的地方，这一成就现在已被其他专业认可和效仿，但这不应掩盖这样一个事实，即关于整个围手术期经验的重要基本问题仍然没有答案。这些问题包括：1）全身麻醉的作用机制，2）围手术期状态的生理学，3）整个围手术期的安全性，4）改善长期结局，5）急性和慢性疼痛的治疗。然而，维护科学基础设施，将引导麻醉学领域的未来需要一个训练有素和积极的临床科学家的专业谁是致力于追求重要的麻醉学问题的核心。为了帮助确保麻醉学的科学稳健的未来，约翰霍普金斯大学的麻醉学和重症监护医学系（ACCM）正在提交此申请，以支持麻醉学博士后研究培训。除了为他们的支持提供一个重要的途径，预计该计划将为约翰霍普金斯ACCM引进一个更系统的方法，以招募，培训和发展麻醉学专业的下一代临床医生科学家。虽然这是一个新的应用程序，ACCM在麻醉学的临床和基础研究培训方面有着悠久而富有成效的历史，本应用程序将建立在此基础上并正式化。从历史上看，该部门一直依赖于个别实验室或部门的导师提供博士后研究培训的支持。支持博士后培训的更正式的结构化手段将对候选人更具吸引力，并将允许与部门以外的非传统导师进行培训，否则他们可能不愿意承担几年的培训奋进。当与约翰霍普金斯大学教师发展的大量资源相结合时，麻醉学博士后研究培训补助金将为培训临床医生科学家提供一个出色的机会，他们将继续为麻醉学实践建立科学基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Anesthesiology's success in making the intraoperative environment an extremely safe place, an accomplishment now recognized and emulated by other specialties, should not obscure the fact that important fundamental questions about the entire perioperative experience remain unanswered. These questions include 1) the mechanism of general anesthetic action, 2) physiology of the perioperative state, 3) safety throughout the entire perioperative period, 4) improving long-term outcomes, and 5) the treatment of acute and chronic pain. However, maintaining the scientific infrastructure that will guide the field of Anesthesiology into the future requires a core of well-trained and motivated Clinician-Scientists within the specialty who are dedicated to the pursuit of problems important to Anesthesiology. To help ensure a scientifically robust future for Anesthesiology, the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) at the Johns Hopkins University is submitting this application to support Postdoctoral Research Training in Anesthesiology. In addition to providing a critical avenue for their support, it is anticipated that this program will introduce a more systematic approach for Johns Hopkins ACCM to recruit, train, and develop the next generation of clinician-scientists in the specialty of Anesthesiology. Although this is a new application, ACCM has a long and productive history of clinical and basic research training in Anesthesiology which this application will build upon and formalize. Historically, this Department has relied upon mentors from individual laboratories or the Department to provide support for postdoctoral research training. A more formal structured means of supporting postdoctoral training will be more attractive to candidates and will permit training with non-traditional mentors outside of the Department who might otherwise be unwilling to underwrite the costs of a several year training endeavor. When combined with the considerable resources already in place for faculty development at Johns Hopkins University, an Anesthesiology Postdoctoral Research Training Grant will provide an outstanding opportunity for training clinician-scientists who will continue to build the scientific foundation for the practice of Anesthesiology.