NEMCH Clinical Research on AIDS Training Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：这是塔夫茨-新英格兰医学中心地理医学和传染病（GMID）分部的艾滋病临床培训补助金的竞争性更新提案，作为与布朗大学医学院/米里亚姆医院艾滋病毒项目的互动项目提交。我们的目标是继续培训艾滋病毒/艾滋病临床研究方法的研究人员，重点是这两个项目各自的独特优势。其中包括：艾滋病毒的营养和代谢问题，艾滋病毒的心血管风险，艾滋病毒的特殊人群，包括妇女，少数民族，注射毒品使用者和监禁人群，结果研究和决策分析，国际艾滋病研究，以及艾滋病毒/艾滋病的临床研究。通过教授核心方法，以及由受训人员在经验丰富和有能力的导师的监督下设计和开展的指导性临床研究，我们希望培训下一代艾滋病临床研究人员，使其能够获得独立资助，从而使他们的工作和培训补助金的工作能够直接影响和改善艾滋病毒感染者的临床实践和成果。我们每年要求4个资助职位;每个学员都可以选择公共卫生或临床研究学位课程，以及进行指导研究项目。对受训者的教学培训，无论他们是否选择学位课程，都将强调研究设计的基本方法。该培训补助金的教师资金非常充足，许多教师以艾滋病研究中心（CFAR），福格蒂国际艾滋病培训计划（AITRP）和药物滥用和艾滋病研究中心（CDAAR）的形式进行了持续，富有成效的合作。通过指导制度，赠款的执行委员会，其中包括来自两个机构的教师，每个学员的研究协调委员会，再次包括来自两个机构的教师，我们打算个性化和优化培训机会，为每个学员。广泛的评价过程，包括书面报告和向培训补助金全体教员介绍研究结果，将确保每个受训人员的职业发展得到充分支持，并充分利用所提供的培训机会的深度和广度。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This competitive renewal proposal for an AIDS Clinical Training Grant from the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases (GMID) at the Tufts-New England Medical Center is submitted as an interactive program with the Brown University School of Medicine/ Miriam Hospital HIV program. Our goal is to continue to train investigators in methods of HIV/AIDS clinical research with an emphasis on the unique strengths of the two programs individually. These include: nutritional and metabolic issues in HIV, cardiovascular risk in HIV, special populations in HIV including women, ethnic minorities, injection drug users, and incarcerated populations, outcomes research and decision analysis, international AIDS research, and clinical studies in HIV/AIDS. By teaching core methods together with mentored clinical research designed and carried out by trainees under the supervision of experienced and able mentors, we expect to train the next generation of AIDS clinical investigators to a level competitive for independent funding, so that their work and the work of the training grant will have a direct impact on and improve clinical practice and outcomes in HIV infected patients. We have requested 4 funded positions per year; each trainee has the option of electing a degree program in public health or in clinical research as well as conducting a mentored research project. Didactic training for trainees, whether they select a degree program, will emphasize basic methodology in study design. The faculty for this training grant is exceptionally well funded and many of the faculty have ongoing, productive collaborations in the form of a Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), a Fogarty International AIDS Training Program (AITRP) and a Center for Drug Abuse and AIDS Research (CDAAR). Through the mentoring system, the Executive Committee of the Grant, which included faculty from both institutions, and each trainee's Research Coordination Committee, again including faculty from both institutions, we intend to individualize and optimize training opportunities for each trainee. An extensive evaluation process, including written reports and presentation of research results to the whole faculty of the training grant will ensure that each trainee is fully supported in his/her career development and that they take full advantage of the depth and breadth of the training opportunities offered.