Clinical Neuroengineering Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：该临床神经工程培训计划（CNTP）的目标是培养一批工程师和科学家，采用跨学科方法将生物医学工程和物理科学，神经科学和临床实践的传统领域联系起来。我们设计的CNTP的前提是，跨学科研究是一种研究模式，由团队或个人整合信息，数据，技术，工具，观点，概念和/或理论，从两个或两个以上的学科，以推进基本的理解或解决问题的解决方案超出了一个单一的学科的范围。进行跨学科研究的学生也大大受益于他们的论文委员会所代表的三个学科的导师的指导。共同指导允许学生与不同领域的研究人员建立直接关系，同时综合培训和建议，以形成自己的技能和经验，为未来的跨学科研究目标服务。我们的目标之一，使CNTP一个成功的培训计划是由CNTP学员进行的研究将有多个领域或学科的影响，并产生反馈到和加强学科研究的结果。它还将创造学生在一个以上的学科扩大研究词汇和能力，并与复杂问题中固有的相互联系的增强理解。正如名称，临床神经工程意味着，我们计划的基础和驱动力是诊所。对诊所的重视是将我们计划的各个方面联系在一起的共同点：我们培训师的研究旨在回答临床问题;我们学员的正式课程计划包括医院的临床轮换，医学伦理课程和公共政策课程。这种对临床医学的关注在研究生教育中几乎普遍缺乏。我们相信，这使得我们的计划明显不同于任何其他部门或在该国的培训计划，并使我们的学员真正跨学科的教育经验。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this Clinical Neuroengineering Training Program (CNTP) is to train a cohort of engineers and scientists with an interdisciplinary approach linking the traditional areas of biomedical engineering and physical science, neuroscience, and clinical practice. We have designed the CNTP around the premise that interdisciplinary research is a mode of research by teams or individuals that integrates information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts, and/or theories from two or more disciplines to advance fundamental understanding or to solve problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of a single discipline. Students conducting interdisciplinary research also benefit greatly from the guidance of mentors in the three disciplines represented on their dissertation committees. Co-mentoring allows students to have direct relationships with researchers in the different fields while synthesizing the training and advice to form their own skills and experiences for their future interdisciplinary research goals. One of our objectives in making the CNTP a successful training program is that the research conducted by CNTP trainees will have an impact on multiple fields or disciplines, and produce results that feed back into and enhance disciplinary research. It will also create students with an expanded research vocabulary and abilities in more than one discipline, and with an enhanced understanding of the interconnectedness inherent in complex problems. As the name, Clinical Neuroengineering implies, the foundation and driving force of our program is the Clinic. This emphasis on the Clinic is the common thread that ties together all aspects of our program: The research of our trainers is designed to answer clinical questions; the formal course plan for our trainees includes clinical rotations in the hospital, a course in medical ethics and another in public policy. This focus on clinical medicine is almost universally absent in graduate education. We believe this makes our Program distinctly different from any other department or training program in the country, and makes the educational experience for our trainees truly interdisciplinary.