Doctoral Program in Human Nutrition and Metabolism

描述（由申请人提供）： 在人类营养和代谢博士后培训计划结合营养研究与科学家在人类营养独特合格的教师优秀的资源，以培养医生，其他研究生水平的卫生专业人员，并选择博士进行人体营养，代谢和生物科学的研究基本营养。参与机构包括美国农业部塔夫茨大学老龄化人类营养研究中心、塔夫茨-新英格兰医学中心、塔夫茨大学营养科学与政策学院、塔夫茨大学医学院和萨克勒生物医学研究生院。波士顿肥胖研究中心补充了这些机构资源。该项目共有37名教师，其中28名是导师，9名是支持教师。这些导师担任20多项NIH赠款的主要研究者，并在过去15年中培训了超过215名博士前和博士后学员。教师的研究范围从分子和细胞生物学到与预防和治疗癌症、心脏病、糖尿病、高血压、中风和骨质疏松症等疾病相关的营养科学领域的流行病学和政策。 该计划主要招募医生，但也招募其他研究生水平的卫生专业人员和选定的博士，该计划积极寻找少数民族学员。请求延长四个已获供资的空缺。学员追求学术上严格的三年培训计划，其中他们有获得博士学位的额外选择。营养学或文学硕士在临床护理研究中。该方案的进展情况由一个指导委员会监测，该委员会包括受训者的导师或论文顾问。研究教育的补充是丰富的研究会议和研讨会的时间表，并与卫生专业学位的学员，通过住院营养支持服务的临床培训，并在门诊营养专科诊所轮换。受训者获得基础营养科学和营养研究的广泛背景，熟悉营养和疾病方面的现有文献，接受使用和解释评估个人和人口营养状况的方法的培训，以及对研究设计和生物统计方法的应用和局限性的深刻理解。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Postdoctoral Training Program in Human Nutrition and Metabolism combines outstanding resources for nutrition research with a uniquely qualified faculty of scientists in human nutrition to train physicians, other graduate-level health professionals, and selected Ph.D.s to conduct research in human nutrition, metabolism, and the biological sciences basic to nutrition. Participating institutions include the U.S.D.A. Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Tufts-New England Medical Center, the Tufts University School of Nutrition Science and Policy, the Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences. The Boston Obesity Research Center complements these institutional resources. There are 37 faculty members in this program 28 of who are preceptors and 9 of who are supporting faculty. The preceptors serve as principal investigators for over 20 NIH grants and have trained over 215 pre- and post-doctoral trainees over the last 15 years. Faculty research ranges from molecular and cellular biology to epidemiology and policy in areas of nutritional science relevant to the prevention and treatment of diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, stroke and osteoporosis. The program primarily recruits physicians, although other graduate-level health professionals and selected Ph.D.s are also recruited, and the program has actively sought out minority trainees. Renewal of four funded slots is requested. Trainees pursue an academically rigorous three year training program in which they have the additional options of obtaining either a Ph.D. in nutrition or an M.A. in clinical care research. Progress in the program is monitored by a Steering Committee that includes the trainees' preceptors or thesis advisors. Research education is complemented by a rich schedule of research conferences and seminars and, for trainees with health professional degrees, by clinical training in an inpatient nutrition support service, and by rotation in outpatient nutrition subspecialty clinics. Trainees acquire a broad background in basic nutritional science and nutrition research, familiarity with the current literature in nutrition and disease, training in the use and interpretation of methodologies to assess the nutritional status of individuals and populations, and a sophisticated understanding of the applications and limitations of research design and biostatistical methodologies.