Rehabilitation Medicine Scientist Training (RMST) Program

描述(由申请人提供)：人们普遍认为，美国缺乏训练有素的内科科学家。为解决这一问题，已经引入了若干征聘和培训机制。由于几个原因，物理医学和康复领域的短缺尤为严重，康复研究的需求正在上升。为了解决这一短缺问题，私人投资机构提交了这项建议，要求继续支持康复医学科学家培训计划(RMSTP)，该计划在过去15年里由国家儿童健康和人类发展研究所的国家医疗康复研究中心通过K12资助机制提供资金。该计划的具体目标是：1.在住院医师培训开始时，确定对学术物理领域的独立研究职业感兴趣并具有潜力的PM&R住院医师。2.确定具有重大研究潜力的初级PM&R教师，他们所在的部门将支持他们进一步的研究职业发展，并可以获得高素质的导师。3.提供早期职业咨询和科学指导，以便有前途的候选人在完成住院医师培训后为博士后研究培训做好最佳准备，或者能够在高度准备的情况下进入教职员工级别的研究奖学金。4.帮助有前途的候选人与适当的导师联系，并设计适当的职业发展计划。5.从这个潜在的人才库中选择最好的候选人，进入RMSTP的资助部分(第一阶段)。6.确保至少在完成第一阶段培训(由国家卫生研究院资助的部分)之前，受训人员已被录用到适合其作为独立科学家继续发展的学术教职岗位(第二阶段)，或从他们已经居住的部门获得有组织的职业发展支持。这一计划的最终目标是增加PM&R部门中经过严格培训、具有外部竞争能力和科学生产力的教职员工数量，他们可以为具体的生理学研究和一般康复科学的持续发展做出贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): It is generally acknowledged that there is a dearth of well-trained physician scientists in the United States. A number of recruitment and training mechanisms have been introduced to address this problem. For several reasons, the shortage is particularly acute in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the need for rehabilitation research is on the rise. In order to address this shortage the PIs submit this proposal for continued support of the Rehabilitation Medicine Scientist Training Program (RMSTP), funded over the last 15 years by the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, through the K12 funding mechanism. The specific aims of this program are to: 1. Identify PM&R residents at the beginning of their residency training who demonstrate interest in and potential for independent research careers in academic physiatry. 2. Identify junior PM&R faculty with significant research potential who reside in departments that would be supportive of their further research career development, and who have access to highly qualified mentors. 3. Provide early career counseling and scientific mentorship so that promising candidates are optimally prepared for post-doctoral research training at the completion of their residency, or are able to enter a research fellowship at the faculty level with a high degree of preparedness. 4. Assist promising candidates by linking them with the appropriate mentors and designing appropriate career development plans. 5. Select the best candidates from this potential pool for admission to the funded portion of the RMSTP (Phase I). 6. Ensure that, at least by the time of completion of Phase I of their training (the NIH-funded portion), trainees are hired into academic faculty positions suited to their continued development as independent scientists (Phase II), or have structured career development support from the departments where they already reside. The ultimate aim of this program, to which the above aims all contribute, is to increase the number of rigorously trained, extramurally competitive, and scientifically productive faculty members in PM&R departments, who can contribute to the continued development of physiatric research specifically and rehabilitation science in general.