Training Program in Biomedical Imaging and Informational Sciences

描述（由申请人提供）： 临床相关成像科学的定量基础科学家的培训越来越重要。 优秀的成像科学在宾夕法尼亚大学的多所学校都有很好的代表性，但在培训方面没有正式的整合，也没有正式的临床组成部分，直到最近创建了生物医学成像和信息科学培训计划。在HHMI-NIBIB接口倡议的主持下于2006年成立，该计划代表了由医学与工程研究所和放射学系与多所学校的许多其他部门合作领导的伙伴关系。我们的前提是，定量成像科学中最成功的研究和技术是那些整合临床相关性，数学严谨性和工程技巧的研究和技术。因此，新计划包括强大的临床暴露与分析科学。我们的目标是通过确保学生达到一定的整合水平，使他们成为假设驱动，临床为重点的生物医学成像研究的下一代领导者，开发一种新的跨学科培训。一个新的课程，博士基础，将提供18个月的生物医学和生物医学成像基础科学教育的核心教学元素的垂直整合，通过4个组件，其中两个基础，其次是综合和专业组件。在第一，生物医学科学基础（2门课程），学生将参加修改后的模块1和2的医学生课程，教授医学的核心原理（包括大体解剖学）和12个月的器官系统医学序列，综合系统和疾病。这将通过图像科学基础的4门新课程进行补充：分子成像，生物医学图像分析，成像基础技术和医学成像与测量数学。第三部分是综合模块：放射学基础和生物医学影像科学研讨会课程。第四部分是专业培训：负责任的研究行为，教学实习，以病人为导向的研究培训，研究“生存”粗糙的参与教师的实验室。为了确保论文研究通过离散临床问题的解决方案指向转化医学，学员将由临床和基础科学系的成员共同提供建议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The training of quantitative basic scientists in clinically-related imaging science is increasingly important. Excellent imaging sciences are well represented at Penn in multiple schools, but no formal integration of efforts in training existed, nor was there a formal clinical component to the training until the recent creation of the Training Program in Biomedical Imaging and Informational Sciences. Established in 2006 under the auspices of the HHMI-NIBIB Interfaces Initiative, the program represents a partnership led by the Institute for Medicine and Engineering and the Department of Radiology in collaboration with many other departments across multiple Schools. Our premise is that the most successful research and technologies in quantitative imaging science are those that integrate clinical relevance, mathematical rigor, and engineering finesse. Accordingly, the new program embraces strong clinical exposure alongside analytical science. The objective is to develop a new kind of interdisciplinary training by ensuring that students attain a level of integration that would allow them to become the next generation of leaders in hypothesis-driven, clinically focused biomedical imaging research. A new curriculum, the doctoral foundation, will provide 18 months of vertical integration of the core didactic elements of biomedicine and basic science education in biomedical imaging through 4 components, two of them Foundational, followed by Integrative and Professional components. In the first, Foundations in Biomedical Science (2 courses), students will participate in modified modules 1 and 2 of the medical student curriculum that teaches the Core Principles of Medicine (including Gross Anatomy) and a 12-month sequence of organ systems medicine, Integrative Systems and Diseases. This will be complemented by 4 new courses in Foundations of Image Science: Molecular Imaging, Biomedical Image Analysis, Fundamental Techniques of Imaging, and Mathematics of Medical Imaging & Measurements. The third component is an Integrative Module: Foundations of Radiology and a Biomedical Image Sciences Seminar course. The fourth component is Professional Training: Responsible Conduct of Research, Teaching Practicum, Patient-Oriented Research Training, Research 'Survival' rough the laboratories of the participating faculty. To ensure that the thesis research is directed to translational medicine through the solution of discrete clinical problems, trainees will be co-advised by members f the clinical and basic science faculty.