Pittsburgh Pediatric Rheumatology Training Grant

描述(申请人提供)：这是匹兹堡儿童风湿病培训助学金的续期申请。儿童风湿学主要研究儿童时期的肌肉骨骼和自身免疫性疾病。为这群儿童提供服务的是美国237名获得委员会认证的儿科风湿病医生(截至2008年)。除了少数人之外，所有这些人都是不从事研究的临床医生。因此，很少有儿科风湿病医生接受过研究指导，他们缺乏进行尖端研究的技能。匹兹堡儿童医院的儿科风湿病科在大量和持续的机构支持下，努力创建一个国家卓越中心，提供全面的、最先进的临床护理、教育项目和涉及临床、翻译和基础科学的竞争性研究。我们的培训计划是美国国立卫生研究院资助的仅有的两个致力于儿科风湿病的培训计划之一。我们的中心使命之一是培养新一代学术儿科风湿病专家，他们可以作为内科科学家在该专业中发挥主导作用。其目标是提供训练有素的医学博士、学术儿科风湿病学家和博士科学家的主要来源，以满足国家对儿科风湿病尖端研究的需求。为了实现这一使命，我们寻求在一个中心内提供培养这些人并确保他们成功所需的研究榜样、导师和丰富的环境。请提供支持，以继续我们方案中现有的受训人员数量，目前为每年四名受训人员，以便每年提供两名新受训人员，并为每名受训人员提供两年的支助。受训人员将由两种类型的个人组成。至少75%的人将是完成了第一年临床培训的儿科风湿病医学博士。经过第一年的强化临床培训后，他们将从项目教员中选择一名导师，以获得非凡的研究经验，这些经验将作为独立学术生涯的基础。将有高达25%的受训博士希望专注于儿科风湿病的研究生涯。他们将从研究儿科风湿病的教职员工中挑选一名导师。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a renewal application for The Pittsburgh Pediatric Rheumatology Training Grant. Pediatric rheumatology focuses on musculoskeletal and autoimmune diseases of childhood. Serving this population of children are 237 board-certified pediatric rheumatologists in the United States (as of 2008). All but a handful of these are clinicians who do not engage in research. As a result, few pediatric rheumatologists have had research mentorship and they lack the skills to perform cutting edge research. The Division of Pediatric Rheumatology at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, with substantial and sustained institutional support, has endeavored to create a national center of excellence offering comprehensive, state-of-the-art clinical care, educational programs, and competitive research involving clinical, translational, and basic sciences. Our Training Program is one of only two NIH-funded training programs dedicated to pediatric rheumatology. One of our central missions is to educate a new generation of academic pediatric rheumatologists who can play a leading role in the specialty as physician scientists. The goal is to provide a prime source of well- trained M.D. academic pediatric rheumatologists and Ph.D. scientists to serve the national need for cutting- edge research in the pediatric rheumatic diseases. To achieve this mission, we seek to provide, within a single center, the research role models, mentorship, and rich environment necessary for nurturing such individuals and ensuring their success. Support is requested to continue the current number of trainees in our program, currently four trainees per year, in order to provide two new trainees per year and two years of support for each trainee. The trainees will consist of two types of individuals. At least 75% will be pediatric rheumatology M.D. fellows who have completed a first year of clinical training. Following a first year of intensive clinical training, they will select a mentor from among the program faculty in order to gain exceptional research experience that will be used as the basis of an independent academic career. Up to 25% will be Ph.D. trainees who desire to focus their research careers in pediatric rheumatology. They will select a mentor from among the faculty who study the pediatric rheumatic diseases.