Child Health Research Center

描述（由申请人提供）：概述：波士顿儿童医院和哈佛医学院的一个主要目标是培养能够在波士顿儿童医院和世界各地的其他儿科机构开发杰出的独立研究项目的医生科学家。这反映在我们目前的研究教师，其中许多人在这里接受了培训。我们致力于培训儿童健康研究的研究人员，这也反映在许多优秀的研究人员中，他们在波士顿儿童医院接受了培训，现在在全国各地和其他国家的其他医疗中心的儿科部门工作。在本申请中，我们将讨论我们提出的在波士顿儿童医院重建儿童健康研究中心的计划。我们提出了一个计划，包括导师在广泛的学科，其中涵盖了当今儿科医生面临的问题的范围。我们的奖学金候选人池同样广泛，将包括那些完成奖学金的13个部门，包括医学部在波士顿儿童医院，以及外部候选人谁可能会在初级教师招聘水平。学者将从我们最有前途的研究员中选出，他们在居住和研究期间表现出潜力，发展成为杰出的医学科学家。在此期间，学者将被任命为讲师，这是哈佛医学院通常的入门级教师级别，并作为正在建立自己的独立研究项目的初级教师，同时继续受益于高级教师的指导。重要的是，该计划将专门针对发展妇女和代表性不足的少数民族成为成功的医生科学家。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Overview: A major goal of Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School is to foster the development of physician-scientists who are able to develop outstanding independent research programs at Children's Hospital Boston and other Pediatric Institutions around the world. This is reflected in our present research faculty, many of whom received their training here. Our dedication to training investigators in child health research is also reflected in the many outstanding investigators who received their training at Children's Hospital Boston and now populate departments of pediatrics at other medical centers around the country and in other countries. In this application we will discuss our proposed program for the re-establishment of a Child Health Research Center at Children's Hospital Boston. We propose a program that includes mentors in a broad range of disciplines, which cover the range of problems confronting pediatricians today. Our pool of Scholar-candidates is equally broad, and will include those completing fellowships in the thirteen divisions that comprise the Department of Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston, as well as outside candidates who may be recruited at the junior faculty level. Scholars will be selected from among the most promising of our Fellows, who have shown the potential during their residency and fellowship to develop as outstanding physician-scientists. During this time scholars will be appointed as Instructors, which is the usual entry-level faculty rank at Harvard Medical School, and function as junior faculty members who are establishing their own independent research programs, while continuing to benefit from mentoring by senior faculty. Importantly, program will be in place aimed specifically at developing women and under-represented minorities into successful physician-scientists.