Research Training in Otolaryngology

描述(由申请者提供)：我们的计划旨在培养和发展将推进耳鼻咽喉头颈外科领域的内科科学家。我们的专科需要广泛的专业知识和科学策略来了解和治疗沟通障碍和头颈部疾病。这些疾病可能会限制生存，更广泛地影响与家庭、工作场所和整个社会的联系能力。我们的目标是提供科学培训，以及沟通和管理技能，使我们的毕业生能够成为未来耳鼻咽喉科和相关沟通障碍治疗的创造性贡献者。成功的一个重要指标，也是一个令人非常自豪的点，是继续在霍普金斯大学和其他地方从事学术生涯的受训者人数，其中包括几名现在是这项培训拨款的教职员工。每年有两名住院医师在实习的第三年参加为期两年的研究培训。这些受训者可以从系内、霍普金斯大学和其他地方的相关实验室的广泛和深入的研究项目中进行选择。主题包括但不限于：头颈癌的分子生物学、头晕和平衡的基本机制和治疗创新、听觉神经系统的研究(包括人工耳蜗术的使用和结果)、鼻窦炎的发病机制、流行病学和基因组相关性研究。我们的目标是培养热情、好奇、批判性和知识性的年轻研究人员，他们能够提出并回答重要问题，并将能够在学术医学领域进行成功的、独立的研究生涯。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our program aims to train and develop physician-scientists who will advance the field of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. Our subspecialty requires a wide variety of expertise and scientific strategies for understanding and treating communication disorders and diseases of the head and neck. These diseases can limit survival, and more broadly affect the ability to relate to family, workplace and society at large. We aim to provide the scientific training, as well as communication and administrative skills that will enabl our graduates to become creative contributors to the future of otolaryngology and the treatment of associated communication disorders. One significant indicator of success, and a point of great pride, is the number of trainees who have gone on to academic careers at Hopkins and elsewhere, including several who are now among the faculty of this training grant. Two residents per year enter into 2 years of research training in their third year of residency. These trainees can choose from a wide, and deep, selection of research programs both within the department, and in associated laboratories at Hopkins and elsewhere. The topics include, but are not limited to: molecular biology of head and neck cancers, basic mechanisms of, and therapeutic innovation for dizziness and balance, studies of the auditory nervous system including utilization and outcomes of cochlear implantation, pathogenesis of sinusitis, epidemiologic and genomic association studies. We aim to educate enthusiastic, inquisitive, critical, and knowledgeable young investigators who can pose and then answer significant questions and who will be able to conduct successful, independent research careers in academic medicine.