Reproductive Sciences Research Career Development Center

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请的目标是建立在和加强目前在UCSD妇女生殖健康研究职业发展中心提供的优秀学术培训。WRHR学者通过由国际公认的研究人员组成的咨询委员会在全国范围内进行搜索，确定高性能的OB/GYN医生，他们渴望在女性健康方面取得科学成就，并致力于作为医生科学家的学术事业。学者与来自广泛的妇女健康兴趣领域的资深科学家导师相匹配，包括流行病学，围产期生理学和遗传学，肥胖和代谢，泌尿妇科学，生殖内分泌学和癌症。该计划灵活地分为两个阶段：在前1至2年，学者致力于研究能力;在最后3至4年，努力实现研究独立性和学术专长。在第一阶段，教学和实践指导补充了密集的实验室工作，临床工作被最小化。第一阶段的学者参加为期两年的CREST计划在流行病学，生物统计学，数据管理和信息学。在第三个可选的一年，MPH学位可以实现。在第二阶段，学者加入UCSD NCLAM领导力计划，该计划教授学术发展，领导力和组织效率，并准备学者作为一名有成就的副教授。定期进行赠款写作，道德和医疗企业的个性化指导。在整个过程中，该中心的指导委员会密切监测学者在每月会议和个人指导委员会（类似于博士论文委员会）的进展，专门为每个学者任命，每年举行两次会议，确保研究环境和临床需求得到优化和平衡。咨询委员会每年审查指导委员会的报告，并评估每个学者的进步和重新任命的程序每年。该中心在过去十年中取得的成功将得到加强和扩展，因为一批新的优秀学者被招募，培训并转变为成熟的临床科学家。 相关性：WRHR职业发展方案满足了对更多从事妇女健康研究的妇产科医生的需要。该方案解决了持续需要桥接临床培训与研究解决妇女健康问题的独立职业生涯。主要目标是提高临床培训的妇产科医生的研究能力，以解决妇女健康研究的临床相关但服务不足的领域。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this application is to build upon and enhance the outstanding academic training currently provided in the UCSD Women's Reproductive Health Research Career Development Center. WRHR Scholars are selected through nationwide searches by an Advisory Committee comprised of internationally recognized researchers that identifies high-performing OB/GYN physicians who aspire to scientific excellence in Women's Health and are committed to academic careers as physician-scientists. Scholars are matched with an established senior-scientist Mentor from a broad range of Women's Health interest areas including epidemiology, perinatal physiology and genetics, obesity and metabolism, urogynecology, reproductive endocrinology, and cancer. The program is flexibly organized into two phases: in the first 1 to 2 years, the Scholar works toward research competency; in the final 3 to 4 years, efforts are directed to achieving research independence and academic expertise. During Phase 1, didactic and practical instruction supplements intensive laboratory work, and clinical work is minimized. First phase Scholars participate in the two-year CREST program in epidemiology, biostatistics, data management, and informatics. During a third optional year, an MPH degree can be achieved. In Phase 2, Scholars join the UCSD NCLAM Leadership Program, which teaches academic development, leadership, and organizational effectiveness and prepares the Scholar to function as an accomplished Associate Professor. Individualized instruction in grant writing, ethics, and medical enterprise is conducted regularly. Throughout, the Center's Mentoring Committee closely monitors Scholars' progress in monthly meetings and an Individual Mentoring Committee (similar to a PhD Thesis committee), appointed specifically for each Scholar, meets twice yearly, ensuring that both the research environment and clinical demands are optimized and balanced. The Advisory Committee reviews Mentoring Committee reports annually and assesses each Scholar's advancement and reappointment to the program yearly. The well-established success of the Center over the last ten years will be enhanced and extended as a new a cadre of outstanding Scholars is recruited, trained and transitioned into mature clinician-scientists. RELEVANCE: The WRHR Career Development Program addresses the need for greater numbers of obstetrician-gynecologist physician scientists performing research on Women's Health. The program addresses a continued need for bridging clinical training with an independent career in research addressing women's health concerns. The primary goal is to increase the research capacity of clinically trained obstetrician-gynecologists to address clinically relevant but underserved areas of Women's Health Research.