Physician Scientist Training in Cancer Medicine

描述（由申请人提供）：在癌症医学的医生科学家培训计划的目的是提高在威斯康星州的癌症医学领域的医生科学家大学的研究培训机会。在过去十年中，进入学术医学的医生人数有所下降，部分原因是致力于培训医生调查人员的机构数量有限。作为一个癌症中心，在培训高质量的医生研究人员方面有着良好的记录，其实验室和临床项目之间的互动特别成功，威斯康星州大学综合癌症中心（UWCCC）是癌症医学正式研究培训项目的杰出场所。该计划的参与者在UWCCC的一个既定研究计划中接受至少两年的调查培训，如遗传学，细胞信号传导，病因学和预防，癌症控制，实验治疗学，免疫学，病毒学和辐射和成像科学。学员与教师导师密切合作，在上述领域之一的特定项目，通常与疾病的具体重点，如乳腺癌。项目由受训者以口头和书面形式提交给医师科学家培训资助委员会，每六个月向该委员会提交一次进度报告。学员必须进入UW临床研究者预备课程，该课程提供教学课程，研讨会，讲习班和机构资源，旨在为临床研究中的个人培训。 申请人来自华盛顿大学的医学肿瘤学、放射治疗、儿科肿瘤学、血液学和内科学培训项目。来自其他培训项目的候选人，如泌尿外科，肿瘤外科，眼科，胃肠病学等，如果申请人致力于专注于癌症相关项目，并希望从事癌症医学事业，则会被考虑。根据申请人研究提案的深度和质量选择学员。每年颁发六个培训名额。在过去10年中，有17名受训人员完成了培训。其中14名受训人员在大学癌症中心的学院担任学术医学职务。9名受训人员仍在接受研究金、实习或T32培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of the Physician Scientist Training Program in Cancer Medicine is to enhance research training opportunities at the University of Wisconsin for physician scientists in the field of cancer medicine. During the past decade, the number of physicians entering academic medicine has declined, partly because of a limited number of institutions committed to the training of physician investigators. As a cancer center with a strong record of training high quality physician investigators and with particularly successful interactions between its laboratory and clinical programs, the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center (UWCCC) is an outstanding site for a formal research training program in cancer medicine. Participants in this program receive at least two years of investigative training in one of the established research programs of the UWCCC, such as genetics, cell signaling, etiology and prevention, cancer control, experimental therapeutics, immunology, virology and radiation and imaging sciences. Trainees work closely with a faculty mentor on a specific project in one of the above areas often with a disease specific focus e.g. breast cancer. Projects are presented to the Physician Scientist Training Grant Committee by the trainee both orally and in written NIH grant format with progress reports presented to this Committee every six months. The trainees are required to enter into the UW Clinical Investigator Preparatory Program which provides a curriculum of didactic courses, seminars, workshops and institutional resources designed for individuals training in clinical research. Applicants are drawn from the UW training programs in Medical Oncology, Radiation Therapy, Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Internal Medicine. Candidates from other training programs such as Urology, Surgical Oncology, Ophthalmology, Gastroenterology, etc. are considered if the applicant commits himself to focusing on a cancer related project and wishes to pursue a career in cancer medicine. Trainees are chosen based on the depth and quality of the applicant's research proposal. Six traineeships are awarded each year. Over the past 10 years, 17 trainees have completed their training. Fourteen of these trainees have assumed positions in academic medicine on the faculties of university cancer centers. Nine trainees are still in the midst of their fellowships, or residencies, or T32 traineeships.