Integrated Graduate Training Program in Neuroscience, UTHSCSA

描述（由申请人提供）：德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥健康科学中心（UTHSCSA）的神经科学综合研究生课程提供了一系列神经科学研究领域和方法的多样化培训，从分子，细胞和神经化学到系统，行为和临床神经科学。有34个培训教师来自UTHSCSA综合多学科研究生课程（IMGP）神经科学轨道的指导教师。这个神经科学培训计划提供了一个学习课程，适合学生的个人需求和兴趣，他们来自基础生物科学的各种背景，包括生物学，生物化学，分子生物学，心理学和神经科学。教育工作者和研究人员的互动和合议社区创造了一个具有挑战性但支持性的环境，使我们的学生能够发展成为成功的神经科学家。学生申请并进入一个单一的综合“伞形”研究生课程，IMGP，其中有10个主题定义的“轨道”，其中神经科学是一个，跨越大学内的部门和学校。因此，在IMGP学习的第一年，学生将参加生物医学科学的共同核心课程，并进行一系列的实验室轮换。在春天，他们开始分化，并采取具体到他们感兴趣的领域的课程，在我们的cas神经科学。然后，他们选择一个导师和一个轨道，并开始他们的重点培训。在学习的第二年，我们为神经科学专业的学生提供了丰富的教学课程，密集的实验室经验，专业发展的机会（写作和口头报告），期刊俱乐部，研讨会，参与相关临床活动的机会，以及其他一些旨在提高他们的专业发展和未来成功的丰富活动。该机构在第一年为学生提供支持。因此，我们要求每年为3名学生提供资金，每人仅一年，在学习的第二年，在此期间，他们专注于神经科学课程工作，加强他们的实验室研究，以确定论文项目，并准备在第二年年底的资格考试，之后他们进入博士候选人资格并开始他们的论文研究。这些插槽中的一个或多个可用于支持MD/博士生（S）在他们的培训在神经科学计划的研究生组成部分的等效阶段。战略描述招聘，包括招聘的多样性，并在负责任的研究行为的培训。总而言之，自10年前成立以来，UTHSCSA的神经科学计划已经成为一个成熟而有效的计划，是研究生院最受欢迎的计划之一，拥有富有成效和敬业的培训教师，强大的课程和运作良好的行政结构。如果得到资助，这种基础广泛的早期培训补助金 这不仅将促进我们的进一步发展和增长，它也将使我们有机会提供一个实质性的投资回报，通过继续我们的计划和我们的学生的前进和向上的轨迹。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Integrated Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) provides diverse training in a range of neuroscientific research areas and approaches, from molecular, cellular, and neurochemical to systems, behavioral and clinical neuroscience. There are 34 training faculty drawn from the mentoring faculty in the Neuroscience Track in the Integrated Multidisciplinary Graduate Program (IMGP) at UTHSCSA. This Neuroscience Training Program offers a course of study tailored to the individual needs and interests of students who come to us from a variety of backgrounds in the basic biological sciences, including biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, psychology and neuroscience. An interactive and collegial community of educators and researchers creates a challenging yet supportive environment within which our students can develop into successful neuroscientists. Students apply to and enter a single integrated "umbrella" graduate program, the IMGP, within which there are 10 thematically- defined "tracks", of which Neuroscience is one, that cut across departments and schools within the university. Thus, in their first year of study in the IMGP, students take a common core course in Biomedical Sciences and conduct a series of lab rotations. In the spring, they begin to differentiate and take courses specific to their area of interest, in our cas Neuroscience. They then select a mentor and a track, and begin their focused training. In the second year of study, we offer the Neuroscience students a rich curriculum of didactic courses, intensive laboratory experience, opportunities for professional development (writing and oral presentation), journal clubs, seminars, opportunities to engage in relevant clinical activities, an several other enrichment activities designed to enhance their professional development and future success. The institution supports the students in the first year. Thus, we are requesting funds for 3 students per year, for only one year each, in the second year of study, during which they focus on Neuroscience course work, intensify their laboratory research toward identifying a dissertation project, and prepare for their qualifying exam at the end of this second year, after which they enter doctoral candidacy and begin their dissertation research. One or more of these slots may be used to support MD/PhD student(s) at the equivalent stage of the graduate component of their training in the Neuroscience program. Strategies are described for recruitment, including recruitment for diversity, and for training in the responsible conduct of research. In sum, since its inception just 10 years ago, the Neuroscience Program at the UTHSCSA has emerged into a mature and effective program, one of the most popular in the Graduate School, with a productive and dedicated training faculty, a robust curriculum, and a well-functioning administrative structure. If funded, this broadly-based early-stage training grant will not only facilitate our further development and growth, it will also allow us the opportunity o offer a substantive return on that investment, by continuing on the forward and upward trajectory of both our program and our students.