Adolescent Health Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：这是约翰霍普金斯医学院青少年健康促进研究培训计划竞争性续期申请的第一次提交。该方案的目标是向博士后青少年医学医生提供生殖健康研究方面的培训。缺乏有效的干预措施，以解决青少年和年轻人中艾滋病毒等性传播感染和怀孕的高发病率问题。青少年医学专家，那些在临床环境中与青少年和年轻成年患者接触的人，必须在制定有效预防艾滋病毒、其他性传播感染和怀孕的新战略方面发挥领导作用。这需要临床医生通过与流行病学家，行为科学家，心理学家，社会科学家，统计学家和遗传学家合作，建立在不同学科的科学进步基础上。到目前为止，我们已经成功地招募和培训了五名生殖健康研究的青少年医学研究员，其中四人是代表性不足的少数民族。所有三名研究员谁毕业或即将毕业的方案被招募到学术职位。 在这些成功的基础上，我们现在要求增加五年的资金，每年支持三名研究员，三年的研究培训每年一个职位。约翰霍普金斯大学是唯一有资格开发和维护这样一个程序鉴于我们的教师正在进行的研究，我们以前的学员的成功成果，可用的资源，以及明亮的专用青少年医学医生的不断涌入。该培训计划在约翰霍普金斯大学是独一无二的，因为它强调艾滋病毒和性传播感染预防与青少年的交叉点。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is the first submission of this application for competitive renewal of the Adolescent Health Promotion Research Training Program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The goal of the program is to provide training in reproductive health research to post-doctoral Adolescent Medicine physicians. Effective interventions to address high rates of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, and pregnancy among adolescents and young adults are lacking. Adolescent Medicine specialists, those who have contact with adolescent and young adult patients in a clinical setting, must serve as leaders in the development of new strategies to effectively prevent HIV, other STIs, and pregnancy. This requires clinicians to build upon scientific advancements from varied disciplines through collaboration with epidemiologists, behavioral scientists, psychologists, social scientists, statisticians, and geneticists. To date, we have successfully recruited and trained five Adolescent Medicine fellows in reproductive health research, four of whom are under-represented minorities. All three fellows who graduated or who are about to graduate from the program were recruited into academic positions. Based on these successes, we now request an additional five years of funding to support three fellows per year, one position for each of the three years of research training. The Johns Hopkins University is uniquely qualified to develop and maintain such a program given the on-going research of our faculty, the successful outcomes of our previous trainees, the resources available, and the continuous influx of bright dedicated Adolescent Medicine physicians. The training program is unique at Johns Hopkins University because of its emphasis on the intersection of HIV and STI prevention and adolescents.