Multidisciplinary Training in Translational Gastrointestinal and Liver Research

描述(由申请人提供)： 这是哥伦比亚大学的一项新申请，要求为消化和肝病博士后培训计划提供资金。该计划旨在培训医学博士研究人员成为独立的基础、临床和翻译研究人员。美国国家消化疾病委员会的报告最近强调了美国对翻译研究人员日益增长的需求，以及他们对国家健康的重要性。我们的培训计划主要以哥伦比亚大学消化和肝病系为基础，但包括来自多个系的高度协作和互动的教员(14名高级教师，7名初级教师)。通过严格的程序招募受训人员，主要是从我们的胃肠病奖学金计划中招募，他们将被分配到三个课程之一：(1)基础Gl研究；(2)基础肝脏研究；或(3)临床流行病学研究。受训者被分配到一位具有特定研究项目的导师，但也要完成一项严格的教学计划，其中包括交叉培训和多学科教育。无论研究重点如何，所有学员都将参加教学计划，以加强他们的生物统计学和临床试验知识，并获得基础实验室研究的背景。虽然这个应用程序是作为一个新的T32计划创建的，但它的设计是为了巩固和正规化哥伦比亚大学已经实施的非常成功的研究培训计划。哥伦比亚大学的胃肠病研究奖学金计划只招募以研究为导向的GL研究员，目前正在培训，并已经培训了基础和临床两个方面的研究员。该培训项目的负责人王天明博士多年来一直积极担任年轻基础和临床科学家的导师。设立了行政人员培训方案咨询委员会和外部咨询委员会。该计划与新获得的NIH CTSA和MS/POR培训计划紧密结合。已经制定了一项方案，以加强对人数不足的族裔群体和妇女的招募。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a new application from Columbia University that requests funding for a postdoctoral training program in digestive and liver diseases. This program is designed to train M.D. investigators to become independent basic, clinical and translational researchers. The growing need for translational researchers in the U.S., and their importance to the nation's health, has been recently highlighted in the report by the National Commission on Digestive Diseases. Our training program is primarily based within the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases at Columbia University but encompasses a highly collaborative and interactive faculty (14 senior, 7 junior) from many departments. Trainees, recruited through a rigorous process, primarily from our gastroenterology fellowship program, will be assigned to one of three tracks: (1) basic Gl research; (2) basic liver research; or (3) clinical epidemiology research. The trainees are assigned to a mentor with a specific research project but also complete a rigorous program of didactic instruction that includes cross training and multidisciplinary education. Regardless of the research focus, all trainees will enroll in didactic programs to strengthen their knowledge of biostatistics and clinical trials and obtain a background in basic laboratory investigation. Although created as a new T32 program, this application is designed to solidify and formalize the highly successful research training program that has already been put in place at Columbia University. The gastroenterology fellowship program at Columbia recruits only research-oriented Gl fellows and is currently training, and has trained, fellows in both basic and clinical tracks. Dr. Timothy C. Wang, PI and Director of this Training program, has been actively engaged as a mentor of young basic and clinical scientists for many years. An Executive Training Program Advisory Committee and an External Advisory Committee have been created. The program is tightly integrated with the newly award NIH CTSA and the MS/POR training program. A program to enhance recruitment of underrepresented ethnic groups and women is in place.