Multidisciplinary Heart and Vascular Diseases

简介(申请人提供)：杜克大学医学中心从事心血管疾病领域的临床医生和科学家培训已有50多年的历史。其理念一直是通过创造一个环境，促进整个大学各项目和部门之间的自然联系，从而将培训和研究结合起来。无论以什么标准衡量，该项目都成功地培养了一代杰出的研究人员，他们现在是学术医学领域的杰出教师和领导者。这一成功在很大程度上要归功于34年来对心血管培训计划赠款的资助。我们的目标是通过创造一个环境，确保杜克大学继续为培养能够在心血管领域追求成功研究事业的年轻研究人员做出贡献，从而保持这一生产力的历史。自上次竞争续签以来，PI对我们的计划进行了许多实质性的更改，以努力显著提高我们学员的教育和研究体验。我们计划的一些变化包括：1)研究奖学金期间的教学课程工作，可以获得医学院的硕士学位；2)每年夏天关于补助金撰写和指导的每周研讨会系列；3)要求所有学员在心脏病奖学金的第二年申请博士后研究补助金；4)学员对导师的两年一次的书面评估；5)导师对学员的两年一次的书面评估；6)研究员的年终研究研讨会，最佳摘要报告奖；7)教员定期为所有心脏病学员举办的基础科学研究会议，8)在临床研究员计划的第一年为所有研究员创建为期两个月的基础科学选修课，作为基础科学的入门课程，以及9)我们每月研究会议的新形式，以主题为基础整合临床和基础研究，并提供一个论坛，让受训者学习如何在基础和临床领域之间自由转换研究结果。该计划的目标是通过创造一个环境，确保我们的年轻受训人员发展成为非常成功和创新的独立调查人员，从而继续我们对有才华的内科科学家的培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Duke University Medical Center has been engaged in the training of clinicians and scientists in the area of cardiovascular diseases for over 50 years. The philosophy has been to integrate training and research by creating an environment that facilitates the natural linkages among programs and departments throughout the University. By any measure, the program has succeeded in training a generation of outstanding investigators who are now prominent teachers and leaders in academic medicine. Much of this success can be attributed to 34 years of funding of the Cardiovascular Training Program Grant. Our goal is to maintain this history of productivity by creating an environment that will ensure that Duke will continue to contribute to the development of young investigators capable of pursuing successful research careers in cardiovascular fields. Since the last competing renewal, the PI has implemented a number of substantial changes to our program in an effort to significantly enhance the educational and research experience of our trainees. Some examples of changes that have been made to our program include: 1) Didactic course work during research fellowship that can lead to a Masters Degree from the School of Medicine, 2) Weekly seminar series on grant writing and mentoring in the summer of each year, 3) Requirement that all trainees apply for extramural funding for a Postdoctoral Research Grant in the second year of Cardiology Fellowship, 4) Biannual written evaluations of mentors by trainees, 5) Biannual written evaluations of trainees by mentors, 6) Year-end Research Symposium for fellows, with awards for the best abstract presentation, 7) Regular basic science research conferences given by program faculty to all cardiology trainees, 8) Creation of a two- month basic science elective during the first year of the clinical fellowship program for all fellows as an introduction to the basic sciences, and 9) New format to our Monthly Research Conference that integrates clinical and basic research on a thematic basis, and which provides a forum where trainees learn how to translate findings freely between the basic and clinical spheres. The goal of this program is to continue our training of talented Physician-Scientists by creating an environment that will ensure the development of our young trainees into highly successful and innovative independent investigators.