Research Training and Education

核心C的总体目标是为研究、培训和教育使命提供支持， MDCRC。特别是，核心C将支持医学生奖学金，博士后奖学金和 为期两天的研讨会，以教育/吸引患者和患者倡导者。医学院学生和 博士后将得到两位核心董事的指导。这种培训工作至关重要， 是基础科学家和合格的临床医生，他们可以合作测试新的潜在治疗方法。我们 特别感兴趣的是培养下一代的神经学家在肌肉萎缩症翻译 研究，从而创造了医学生奖学金。这份全职奖学金将使一个 医学生每年参与MDCRC研究的各个方面。学生将参加 在肌营养不良症诊所的患者护理和参与评估的患者中， 项目2在凯瑟琳马修斯的监督下。他们将和史蒂夫摩尔一起评估肌肉活检 在凯文坎贝尔的实验室里研究病人的细胞最后，他们将从有趣的案例中展示他们的发现 肌肉疾病神经病理学研讨会促进基础设施发展 科学家在肌肉萎缩症的转化研究，博士后研究奖学金将 为博士，医学博士或医学博士/博士毕业生在MDCRC提供密集的翻译研究经验， 凯文坎贝尔的实验室。这位研究员还将观察临床和研究中的患者护理 设置，以提高他们对转化研究的临床方面的理解。最后，爱荷华州 MDCRC将继续其传统的参与病人和病人的倡导者在中心。Core C将托管一个 为期两天的研讨会和中心与患者及其家属的开放日。研讨会的目标将 教育患者有关MDCRC正在进行的转化研究，并提供一个论坛 在那里他们关于翻译研究的问题可以得到解答。医学生和 博士后研究员将参加本次研讨会。因此，这一核心将加速 MDCRC的教育使命，并为临床科学家建立培训环境。

The overall goal of Core C is to provide support for the research training and education mission of the MDCRC. In particular, Core C will support a Medical Student Fellowship, a Postdoctoral Fellowship and a two-day symposium to educate/engage patients and patient advocates. Both the medical student and postdoctoral fellow will have mentoring from the two core directors. This training effort is vital, so that there are basic scientists and qualified clinicians who can partner to test novel potential treatments. We are particularly interested in training the next generation of neurologists in muscular dystrophy translational research and thus have created the Medical Student Fellowship. This full-time fellowship will enable one medical student per year to be involved in all aspects of research in the MDCRC. The student will participate in the care of patients in the muscular dystrophy clinic and in the evaluation of patients participating in Project 2 under the supervision of Katherine Mathews. They will evaluate muscle biopsies with Steve Moore and study patient cells in Kevin Campbell's lab. Finally, they will present their findings from interesting cases at the Muscle Disease Neuropathology Conference once a month. To promote the development of basic scientists doing translational research in muscular dystrophy, the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship will provide an intensive translational research experience in the MDCRC for a PhD, MD or MD/PhD graduate in Kevin Campbell's laboratory. This research fellow will also observe patient care in the clinic and research settings to enhance their understanding of the clinical side of translational research. Finally, the lowa MDCRC will continue its tradition of involving patients and patient advocates in the center. Core C will host a two day symposium and Center open house with patients and their families. The goal of the symposium will be to educate the patients about the ongoing translational research in the MDCRC and provide a forum where their questions concerning translational research can be answered. The Medical Student and Postdoctoral Research fellows will participate in this symposium. Thus, this core will accelerate the education mission of the MDCRC and establish a training environment for clinician scientists.