Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Research Training Grant

描述（申请人提供）：我们的项目培养内科科学家和博士后博士基础和临床科学家，以多学科合作的方式进行肺和重症医学的临床相关研究。主要目标是为他们的学术生涯做好准备，其特点是独立的研究生产力和在这些学科中成功培训他人。该计划的显著特点是其培训教师的质量和专业知识，多学科和多样化研究方法的整合，在培训院士方面的成功，以及对培训年轻科学家不断变化的需求的动态响应。研究培训有三个方向：呼吸细胞和分子生物学；综合呼吸生理学；以及临床研究。每个轨道都有一批经验丰富的导师，为学员提供丰富的研究课题，一个研究学习小组作为中心焦点，以及通过让学员接触更广泛的方法和研究课题来丰富研究培训经验的教学课程。临床调查课程包括在流行病学或卫生服务部门注册硕士学位课程。除了这三个轨道之外，还有一个紧密结合的转化研究培训计划。希望成为转化研究者的受训者在一个主要培训方向注册，接受另一个学科的交叉培训，以补充其主要培训方向。他们参加了两个方向的研究小组，有一个扩大的指导计划，并且是我们机构CTSA内转化健康科学研究所的积极成员。该项目有一个完善的选择研究导师的过程，第一年有一个项目（临床实习生），包括由高级培训教师为每位实习生提供咨询，然后在秋季的一周内，实习生将被解除临床责任，与选定的潜在导师进行面试。正式的指导委员会跟踪每位研究员朝着他们的研究培训目标的进展。受训者在几个论坛上展示他们的研究成果，包括实验室内部会议、进展小组更有组织的研究工作、全校范围的肺部和重症护理研究会议以及区域和国家会议。培训包括在手稿和拨款写作指导和研究报告的审查过程。一个导师发展和评估计划已经到位。这种支持性、灵活性和多样化的环境是我们成功留住学术医学学员的关键。

Description (provided by applicant): Our program trains physician-scientists and post-doctoral PhD basic and clinical scientists in a multidisciplinary collaboarative approach to clinically relevant research in pulmonary and critical care medicine. The primary objective is to prepare them for academic careers characterized by independent research productivity and the successful training of others in these disciplines. The program's distinguishing characteristics are the quality and expertise of its training faculty, its integration of multiple disciplines and diverse research methodologies, its success in training academicians, and its dynamic response to changing needs for training young scientists. Research training is available in three tracks: respiratory cell and molecular biology; integrative respiratory physiology; and clinical investigation. Each track has a critical mass of experienced mentors providing a rich range of research topics for the trainee, a research study group as a central focus, and didactic course work to enrich the research training experience by exposing trainees to a broader range of methodology and research topics. The clinical investigation track includes enrollment in a Masters degree program in the Departments of either Epidemiology or Health Services. In addition to the three tracks, there is a tightly integrated Translational Research Training Program. Trainees enrolled in one of the primary training tracks who desire to become translational investigators receive cross- training in another discipline to complement their primary track. They participate in the research study groups of both tracks, have an expanded mentoring program, and are active members of the Institute of Translational Health Sciences within our insttituional CTSA. The program features a well-established process for selecting research mentors and a project during the first year (clinical trainees) that includes counseling each trainee by senior training faculty followed by a week in the fall during which trainees are relieved of their clinical responsibilities to conduct interviews with selected potential mentors. Formal mentoring committees track each fellows' progress toward their research training goals. Trainees present their research in several forums includng infernally at laboratory meetings as well as in more structured research works in progress groups, a University-wide pulmonary and critical care research conference and at regional and national meetings. Training includes instruction in manuscript and grant writing and a review process for research presentations. A program for mentor development and assessment is in place. This supportive, flexible, and diverse environment has been the key to our success in retaining our trainees in academic medicine.