Developmental and Neonatal Biology Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：发育与新生儿生物学培训计划的使命被NICHD的整体使命所包含，重点是确保斯坦福大学在研究领域提供多样化的训练有素的科学家，以满足国家与胎儿和新生儿相关的生物医学，行为和临床研究需求。因此，该计划的主要目标是教育和培训来自不同背景的基础和临床研究人员，以从事发展科学和生殖医学的学术事业。该计划提供了密集的临床经验与新生儿，临床调查的机会，并在实验室为基础的调查先进的研究，在分子和细胞水平上的大多数生命科学学科，包括生物化学，化学和系统生物学，发育生物学，遗传学，微生物学和免疫学，分子和细胞生理学，神经生物学，和妇产科。鼓励思想的相互交流，这将丰富基础和临床科学家的研究。对于基础科学学员，该计划提供了接触临床问题，激发他们对人类发展的好奇心，并加强从板凳到床边的翻译。所有学员都有独特的机会学习，以及促进，尖端的基础研究，在生产实验室与既定的研究人员。他们了解转化研究所需的团队合作，还可以体验重症监护托儿所的大规模应用临床研究的复杂性，由经验丰富的临床研究人员/从业人员监督。该项目有4名博士前培训生，培训3 - 4年并获得博士学位; 2名最近毕业的博士后培训生，培训1年;以及2名具备委员会知识和技能的普通儿科住院实习生-认证的一般儿科医生培训2至3年。评估过程已经制定，以获得每个受训者的反馈，以便改进该计划未来的实习生。培训完成后，每年跟踪每名学员的学业进展，以评估该计划是否成功。一个外部咨询委员会就该方案的运作提供独立的观点。 公共卫生相关性：由于受训人员了解公共卫生的优先事项，他们随时准备作出重大的研究贡献，以确保儿童出生时健康和受欢迎，有健康和富有成效的生活的充分潜力，没有疾病或残疾，并通过最佳康复确保所有人的健康，生产力，独立性和福祉。来自不同背景的受训者的临床和研究工作将有助于减轻人口各阶层之间的健康差距。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of the Training Program in Developmental & Neonatal Biology is subsumed by the overall mission of the NICHD and is focused to ensure that Stanford supplies a diverse pool of highly-trained scientists in research areas, which address the Nation's biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs related to the fetus and newborn. Thus, the prime objective of the Program is the education and training of basic and clinical investigators from diverse backgrounds for academic careers in the developmental sciences and neonatology. The Program offers intensive clinical experiences with newborns, the opportunity for clinical investigation, and advanced study in laboratory-based investigation, at the molecular and cellular level in most of the life-science disciplines, including Biochemistry, Chemical and Systems Biology, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Neurobiology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology. Cross-fertilization of ideas are encouraged that will enrich the research of the basic and the clinically-oriented scientists. For basic science trainees, the Program offers exposure to clinical problems that stimulate their curiosity in human development and enhance the translation from bench to bedside. All trainees have unique opportunities to learn about, as well as contribute to, cutting-edge basic research in productive laboratories with established researchers. They learn about the teamwork required for translational research and can also experience the complexity of large-scale applied clinical research in the intensive care nurseries, supervised by experienced clinical investigators/practitioners. The Program has 4 predoctoral trainees who train for 3 to 4 yrs and receive their PhD degrees; 2 recently graduated postdoctoral trainees train for 1 yr; and 2 post-General Pediatrics residency trainees who possess the knowledge and skills of a Board-Certified general pediatrician train for 2 to 3 yrs. An evaluation process has been developed to obtain each trainee's feedback in order to make improvements to the program for future trainees. After training completion, academic progress of each trainee is followed annually to assess the success of the Program. An External Advisory Committee offers independent perspectives on the Program's operation. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Because the trainees gain an understanding of priorities in public health, they are poised to make significant research contributions, to ensure that children will be born healthy and wanted, have the full potential for a healthy and productive life, free from disease or disability, and to ensure the health, productivity, independence, and wellbeing of all people through optimal rehabilitation. The clinical and research efforts of trainees from diverse backgrounds will help alleviate the health disparity among segments of the population.