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签的第一份申请。该计划的目标是为青春期医学博士后医生提供生殖健康研究方面的培训。缺乏有效的干预措施来解决包括艾滋病毒在内的性传播感染和青少年怀孕的高比率问题。青春期医学专家，即那些在临床环境中接触青少年和年轻成人患者的人，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，在不同学科的科学进步的基础上再接再厉。到目前为止，我们已经成功地招聘和培训了五名生殖健康研究方面的青少年医学研究员，其中四人是代表性不足的少数群体。所有三名从该项目毕业或即将毕业的研究员都被招募到学术职位。在这些成功的基础上，我们现在请求再提供五年的资金，以支持每年三名研究员，三年研究培训中每一年一个职位。约翰·霍普金斯大学是唯一有资格开发和维持这样一个项目的机构，因为我们的教职员工正在进行研究，我们之前的实习生取得了成功，可用的资源，以及聪明、敬业的青少年医学医生的持续涌入。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。

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.