Neuroscience Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：神经科学研究生课程，这是在1983年开始，有其总部设在神经科学系在约翰霍普金斯大学医学院。它由来自大学各个部门的85名教师组成，是研究生培训的广泛努力的中心，包括分子，细胞，发育，系统，认知和计算神经科学以及疾病的神经生物学。每年，从约200名申请者中，我们通常录取10-12名博士。候选人，以及1至4名候选人的组合M.D./博士学位（通过单独的程序录取）。学生进入程序与不同的本科背景，从计算机科学到生物化学。在第一年，他们需要采取为期一年的综合讲座课程与实验室题为“神经科学和认知”以及研讨会上“科学，伦理和社会”。研究机会是通过部门务虚会，实验室午餐（其中功能的工作进展）和一个小型研讨会系列由程序教师专门设计，以帮助一年级学生选择他们的研究轮换学生。这些信息用于帮助选择三个12周的实验室轮换，通常在第一学年结束时完成，然后选择论文实验室。到第二年年底，学生完成六个额外的选修课程，其中许多是从神经科学专业的12个小型博物馆式课程列表中选择的。在第二年结束时完成综合考试后，学生将撰写并捍卫以博士前NRSA形式撰写的论文提案。每个学生在第一年和第二年（每隔三个月）由两名预科顾问提供咨询，此后（每隔六个月）由个性化的论文咨询委员会提供咨询。论文咨询委员会向研究生项目指导委员会提交报告，该委员会仔细跟踪每个学生在项目中的进展情况，并制定整体项目政策。目前，70名学生在神经科学研究生课程注册。完成博士学位的平均时间已经5.1年了。谁已经从我们的程序毕业的学生92%一直留在生物医学研究和85%一直留在学术生物医学研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Neuroscience Graduate Program, which was begun in 1983, has its headquarters in the Department of Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Consisting of 85 faculty drawn from various departments across the University, it serves as the hub of a broad spectrum of efforts for the training of graduate students, encompassing molecular, cellular, developmental, systems, cognitive and computational neuroscience as well as neurobiology of disease. Each year, from a pool of ~200 applicants, we typically matriculate 10-12 Ph.D. candidates as well as one to four candidates for combined M.D./Ph.D. degrees (who are admitted through a separate process). Students enter the program with diverse undergraduate backgrounds ranging from computer science to biochemistry. In the first year they are required to take a year-long integrative lecture course with lab entitled "Neuroscience and Cognition" as well as a seminar on "Science, Ethics and Society". Research opportunities are presented to students through a Departmental Retreat, Lab Lunches (which feature work-in-progress) and a Mini-symposium series by Program Faculty specifically designed to help first-year students choose their research rotations. This information is used to help pick three 12-week lab rotations which are typically completed by the end of the first academic year, following which, a thesis lab is selected. By the end of the second year, students complete six additional elective courses, many of which are chosen from a list of 12 small seminar-style courses in Neuroscience specialties. Following completion of a Comprehensive Exam at the end of Year Two, students write and defend a Thesis Proposal which is written in the form of a Predoctoral NRSA. Each student is advised by two Prethesis Advisors in Years One and Two (at three month intervals) and an individualized Thesis Advisory Committee thereafter (at six month intervals). Thesis Advisory Committees make reports to the Graduate Program Steering Committee which carefully tracks the progress of each student in the program as well as setting overall program policy. At present, 70 students are enrolled in the Neuroscience Graduate program. The average time to complete the Ph.D. has been 5.1 years. Of the students who have graduated from our program 92% have remained in biomedical research and 85% have remained in academic biomedical research.