Clinical Neuroengineering Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：本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，他们采用跨学科的方法将生物医学工程与物理科学，神经科学和临床实践的传统领域联系起来。我们设计CNTP的前提是，跨学科研究是一种团队或个人的研究模式，它整合了来自两个或多个学科的信息、数据、技术、工具、观点、概念和/或理论，以推进基本理解或解决超出单一学科范围的问题。进行跨学科研究的学生也从论文委员会中代表的三个学科的导师的指导中受益匪浅。共同指导使学生能够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，形成自己的技能和经验，为未来的跨学科研究目标服务。我们使CNTP成为一个成功的培训项目的目标之一是，CNTP学员所进行的研究将对多个领域或学科产生影响，并产生反馈和加强学科研究的结果。它还将培养学生在多个学科中扩展的研究词汇和能力，并增强对复杂问题内在相互联系的理解。临床神经工程顾名思义，我们项目的基础和动力是临床。这种对临床的强调是将我们项目的各个方面联系在一起的共同主线：我们的培训师的研究旨在回答临床问题；我们培训生的正式课程计划包括在医院进行临床轮转、一门医学伦理学课程和另一门公共政策课程。这种对临床医学的关注在研究生教育中几乎普遍缺失。我们相信，这使得我们的项目与国内其他任何部门或培训项目明显不同，并使我们的学员的教育经历真正跨学科。

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. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The next decade will see unprecedented opportunities as well as challenges for medical science. Biological knowledge and understanding is increasing at an exponential rate particularly as to human disease. At the same time, there is growing dissatisfaction on the part of U.S. citizens for what is perceived as lack of translation to direct human benefit. Further, delivering new treatments is becoming increasingly problematic because of the remarkable changes in health-care delivery. Insurers and government regulators are insisting on new and very different means of demonstrating efficacy, particularly as it relates to quality of life and cost-effectiveness. Indeed, Evidence Based Medicine has become a mantra of health care administrators and one that biomedical engineers must not only understand but also master. Consequently, the context in which the scientist and engineer must operate has expanded greatly and into areas not typically addressed by traditional curricula. Rather, interdisciplinary teams of engineers, physicians, clinicians, and scientists will be critical to future medical successes. This means that the scientist or engineer of the future must have more than a passing acquaintance with many disciplines. The engineer or scientist must be able to problem solve in a multi-dimensional context. They must be able to orchestrate different disciplines; recognizing where and when each individual discipline is appropriate and needed. 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.