Training Program in the Pathophysiology of Renal Disease

描述(由申请人提供)： 我们培训计划的目标是为临床研究人员和基础医学科学家在肾脏疾病领域从事富有成效的、独立的研究生涯做好准备。这将需要至少两年的密集实验室经验或临床研究经验，并与项目任一教员密切合作。候选人必须是已完成批准的内科住院医师或生物医学领域的博士学位的医学博士。肾病学领域的许多根本性进展是基于实验室的研究越来越多地转移到临床实践的结果。因此，我们的培训计划将强调在肾脏生理学和病理生理学方面的实验室和临床/翻译研究。项目教师的素质和敬业精神是确保研究性培训成功的主要因素。因此，该项目的教师仅限于拥有积极的、正在资助的基于实验室的或临床/翻译研究项目的调查人员，他们具有记录在案的培训记录，可以为受训者提供实践研究经验。该计划的教职员工代表了来自医学、病理学、药理学和毒理学、生物化学、老年医学和生理学系的紧密互动的多学科教员，包括6名医学博士、6名博士、2名医学博士/博士和2名医学博士/医学硕士。虽然每个成员都以自己的权利开展自己的特定资助项目，但大多数项目教职员工之间都有互动，并定期会面，讨论各自的研究努力，以及探索合作项目。这种实验室间的合作对于扩大研究人员的视野非常有用，他们熟悉解决科学问题的各种方法和多学科战略办法。学员可以选择获得公共卫生硕士学位，也可以参加公共卫生学院和其他部门定期举办的针对科学方法和统计分析的活动；参加由医学、生理学和生物化学赞助的会议；以及参加作为计划项目一部分举行的每周研究会议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of our training program is to prepare clinical investigators and basic medical scientists for productive, independent investigative careers in the area of renal disease. This would require a minimum of 2 years exposure to intensive laboratory experience or clinical research working closely with one of the program faculty. Candidates must be MDs who have completed an approved Internal Medicine Residency or PhDs in a biomedical field. Many of the fundamental advances in the field of Nephrology are as a result of laboratory-based research being increasingly transferred to clinical practice. Accordingly, our training program will emphasize both laboratory-based and clinical/translation research in the physiology and pathophysiology of the kidney. The quality and the dedicated effort of the program faculty are primary factors assuring success of the research training. Consequently, the program faculty is limited to investigators with active, on going funded laboratory-based or clinical/translation research programs with documented training records who can provide hands-on research experience for trainees. The program faculty represents a closely-knit interacting multidisciplinary faculty from the departments of Medicine, Pathology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Biochemistry, Geriatrics and Physiology and includes 6 MDs, 6 PhDs, 2 MD/PhDs, and 2 MD/MPHs. While each individual member conducts his specific-funded program in his own right, most of the program faculty interact with each other and meet on a regular basis to discuss respective research efforts as well as explore collaborative projects. Such inter-laboratory cooperation is very useful for expanding the outlook of research fellows who become familiar with a wider variety of methods and multidisciplinary strategic approaches to the solution of scientific problems. The trainees have the option of obtaining an MPH degree or are expected to participate in regularly scheduled activities sponsored by the School of Public Health and other departments targeted toward the scientific method and statistical analysis; attend conferences sponsored by Medicine, Physiology and Biochemistry; and attend the weekly research conference held as a part of Program Project.