Pediatric Cardiovascular Training Grant

弗吉尼亚大学医学院和儿科系有着长期的记录，并致力于培训临床医生研究人员。正在进行的儿科心脏病学和肾脏学培训计划在培养独立的临床医生调查人员方面非常成功。在这些成功的基础上，我们在1999年为儿科心血管研究的临床医生提出了一个新的跨学科培训计划，目标是培养未来的儿科学术领袖。新的培训补助金增加了学员人数，扩大了奖学金计划，并帮助招募了20%的少数族裔申请者参加培训计划。我们达到了100%留住该项目的目标，7名获得助学金的毕业生中有6人已经进入了学术生涯。这一计划的一个独特之处在于，它提供了在基础科学或临床研究领域进行正式培训的机会。我们最初的学员中有一半选择了临床研究方向，并报名参加了健康评估科学研究生学位课程或由美国国立卫生研究院资助的普通临床研究中心赞助的临床调查非学位多学科培训课程。基础科学课程包括与主要导师的密切合作以及与其他导师的合作。研究生课程和研究中心，包括NIH儿科肾病卓越中心和心血管研究中心，提供了进一步的培训机会。导师在研究和研究培训方面有着卓有成效的合作记录，并致力于通过导师发展计划提高导师技能。执行委员会将为培训提供结构和指导，儿科研究员培训方案提供进一步的教学培训，并为受训者培养身份。这笔培训补助金将继续满足日益增长的儿科研究需求，为医学博士提供心血管研究培训，提供儿科心脏病或肾脏病的专科培训。

The University of Virginia School of Medicine and Department of Pediatrics have a long track record and commitment to training clinician investigators. Ongoing training programs in Pediatric Cardiology and Nephrology have been very successful in producing independent clinician investigators. Based upon these successes in 1999 we proposed a new interdisciplinary training program for clinician investigators in Pediatric Cardiovascular Research with the goal to produce the future leaders in Academic Pediatrics. The new training grant increased the trainee pool, expanded the fellowship programs and helped recruit 20% minority applicants into the training program. We achieved our goal of 100% retention in the program and 6 out of the 7 graduates from the grant have entered academic careers. A unique feature of this program is that it provides opportunities for formal training in either a basic science or clinical investigation track. Half of our initial trainees have chosen the clinical investigation track and enrolled in Graduate degree programs in Health Evaluation Sciences or the non-degree Multi-disciplinary Training Program in Clinical Investigation sponsored by the NIH funded General Clinical Research Center. The basic science track involves close work with a primary mentor and collaboration with other mentors. Graduate courses and research centers including the NIH Center of Excellence in Pediatric Nephrology and the Cardiovascular Research Center provide further opportunities for training. The Mentors have a productive record of collaboration in research and research training and are committed to improving mentorship skills through the mentorship development program. The executive committee will provide structure and guidance for training and the Pediatric Fellows Training Program provides further didactic training and fosters an identity for the trainees. This training grant will continue to fill a growing need for research in pediatrics by offering cardiovascular research training to MD's in pediatric subspecialty training in cardiology or nephrology.