Training Clinical Scientists in Radiological Imaging

描述（由申请人提供）：加州大学圣地亚哥分校放射学系正在重新提交其博士后培训补助金的竞争性更新，为医疗居民，“培训放射成像临床科学家”。在第一个五年资助周期之后，该部的创新培训方案取得了巨大成功。学员组已经开始加入学术部门，开始自己的学术生涯，在高影响力期刊上有着出色的出版记录，他们的工作获得了奖项-其中一篇是2011年Neuroimage引用最多的文章-并且已经获得了支持他们工作的赠款和2个NIH R 01赠款以支持导师。成像在临床护理和生物医学研究中的作用越来越大，因此迫切需要精通尖端成像科学的临床医生-科学家。目前，在美国有一个有才华的医学生申请学术放射学住院医师项目的人才库，其中有>20名MD/PhD和>50名MD，他们每年在医学院期间花费>1年的专门研究时间。只有一小部分人被吸引留在学术放射学和追求研究。本建议书中描述的培训计划建立在该部门经过验证的4年临床培训计划的基础上，在住院医师开始时增加一个完整的研究年，然后在整个临床培训期间，每年花费6周的专门研究时间，用于4年的剩余时间。三个为期一年的名额将提供给申请人到该部门的五年放射住院医师计划。我们的目标是根据每位申请人的个人需求定制培训计划，并最大限度地提高学员在加州大学圣地亚哥分校的研究经验。除了满足委员会认证的要求外，临床培训将侧重于受训者特别感兴趣的领域。临床年将是连续的，以最大限度地提高学员的学习;然而，学员将在UCSD逗留期间与他们的研究导师保持联系。每个实验室负责人在学员的研究年和临床科学家在整个五年的居住期间提供的指导将把他们的研究和临床经验联系起来，并为他们未来的职业生涯提供一个模型作为临床科学家。除了研究机会和职业导师，该计划还包括针对每个学员的需求量身定制的专业讲座和专门针对学术放射科医生的研讨会。一个匹配计划提供的综合培训计划，重点是临床科学家的职业生涯，确保平等地获得所有申请人，并允许我们从事居民在他们的培训早期，导致承诺，训练有素的临床科学家。UCSD非常适合培养下一代成像科学家。对于这项提案，我们已经召集了16名放射学和8名非放射学导师，他们在过去10年中共培训了300多名学员，拥有超过110项积极赠款和7000万美元的资助支持，他们的学员发表了近700篇论文，其中大部分是在高影响力期刊上。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The UC San Diego Department of Radiology is resubmitting a competitive renewal of its postdoctoral training grant for medical residents, "Training Clinical Scientists in Radiological Imaging". Following its first five-year funding cycle the department's innovative training program has met with great success. The group of trainees has begun joining academic departments to embark on their own academic careers, with excellent publication records in high impact journals, awards for their work-one for being the most cited article in Neuroimage in 2011-and having already been awarded grants to support their work and 2 NIH R01 grants to support mentor. The growing role of imaging in clinical care and biomedical research has resulted in an acute need for clinician- scientists skilled in cutting-edge imaging science. At present, there exists a talented pool of medical student applicants to academic radiology residency programs across the U.S.A. with >20 MD/PhDs and a >50 MDs that have spent >1 year of dedicate research time during medical school per year. Only a small fraction is enticed to stay in academic radiology and pursue research. The training program described in this proposal builds on the department's proven 4-year clinical training program by adding a full research year at the beginning of residency that is then built upon throughout the clinical training by spending 6 weeks of dedicated research time per year for the balance of the 4 years. Three one-year slots will be made available to applicants to the department's five-year radiology residency program. The goal is to tailor the training program to the individual needs of each applicant and to maximize trainees' research experience at UCSD. Clinical training will focus on areas of specific interest to the trainee in addition to meeting requirements for board certification. The clinical years will be consecutive to maximize trainees' learning; however, trainees will maintain contact with their research mentors throughout their stay at UCSD. The mentorship provided by each laboratory leader during trainees' research year and by the clinical scientist throughout the five-year residency will link their research and clinical experiences and provide them a model for future careers as clinical scientists. In addition to research opportunities and career mentorship, the program includes specialized lectures tailored to the needs of each trainee and workshop specific to academic radiologists. A Match Program-offered integrated training program focusing on the career of clinical scientists ensures equal access to all applicants and allows us to engage residents early in their training, resulting in committed, well-trained clinical scientists. UCSD is well suited to train the next generation of imaging scientists. For this proposal, we have assembled 16 Radiology and 8 non-radiology mentors that together have trained over 300 trainees in the past 10 years, have over 110 active grants and $70M in grant support and their trainees have published nearly 700 papers most of which is in high impact journals.