Training Program in Perinatal Biology and Medicine

描述（由申请人提供）：该培训计划为新生儿和母胎医学医生（在其主要专业获得委员会资格或认证）和完成博士学位的基础科学家提供基础和临床转化研究培训。研究培训包括围产期/发育生理学、生物化学、细胞和分子生物学的概念和技术。培训为期2-3年，为在儿科和妇产科部门或与临床部门直接联系的基础科学部门从事生殖医学学术工作做准备。受训者将在前两年的研究员/博士后培训中表现出研究投入和成就后被任命，这将与第4年和/或第5年的研究员/导师培训相平衡，但将获得助理教授的薪水。在T32项目的第一年，受训者与指导老师一起选择基础研究项目和导师。研究导师、项目和实验室是在现有的T32教师中选择的，但包括UCD医学校园的教师和研究机会和设施的广度。每个领域包括临床-转化，全动物，器官，细胞和分子研究，使学员可以参与任何一个或几个层次的生物学研究。受训者参加研讨会，回顾宫内发育和胎儿、产妇和新生儿生理学。研究生院的课程包括细胞培养、遗传学、发育生物学、细胞和分子生物学、同位素应用、生物统计学、数据处理和信息学、统计学、图形和成像、生物伦理学和研究的伦理行为。提供了研究设计和摘要和手稿准备的研讨会课程。第二年和第三年致力于完成第一年开始的研究项目，并扩展到新的研究领域和新的研究技术。每个受训者制定机构动物和临床研究方案，以解决涉及人类和动物研究的技术和伦理问题。受训者尽可能独立地计划和实施他们的研究项目，但有全科教师的指导。该项目提供基础和临床转化生物学研究的多学科培训，将最先进的研究技术与围产期医学和生物学的重要问题相结合。这种方法使受训者具备独立和成功地进入基础科学或临床转化科学学术生涯的能力。多年来，该培训项目的毕业生在国内和国际上都取得了很高的学术地位，并对研究培训项目的发展和支持产生了重大影响。这种终极研究/学术领导是这个项目的主要目标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This training program provides basic and clinical-translational research training for Neonatology and Maternal- Fetal Medicine physicians (board eligible or certified in their primary specialty) and Basic Scientists who have completed a PhD degree. The research training includes concepts and techniques in perinatal/developmental physiology, biochemistry, and cell and molecular biology. Training is for 2-3 years in preparation for academic careers in reproductive medicine within departments of Pediatrics and Obstetrics &-Gynecology or in basic science departments with direct links to the clinical departments. Trainees will be appointed after demonstrating research commitment and accomplishment during their 1st 2 years of fellowship/postdoctoral training, which will be balanced by 4th and/or 5th years of training as Fellow/Instructors but with Assistant Professor salaries. During the first year in the T32 program, trainees work with faculty advisors to select basic research projects and mentors. Research mentors, projects, and labs are selected among current T32 faculty, but include the breadth of faculty and research opportunities and facilities on the UCD Medical Campus. Each area includes clinical- translational, whole animal, organ, cell, and molecular research so that a trainee can participate at any one or several levels of biological investigation. Trainees attend seminars that review intrauterine development and fetal, maternal, and neonatal physiology. Courses in the graduate school dealing with cell culture, genetics, developmental biology, cell and molecular biology, isotope applications, biostatistics, data processing and informatics, statistics, graphics and imaging, bioethics, and ethical conduct of research are included. Seminar programs in research design and abstract and manuscript preparation are provided. The 2nd and 3rd years are devoted to the completion of the research projects begun in the 1st year and expansion into new areas of research and new research techniques. Each trainee develops institutional animal and clinical research protocols to address technical and ethical issues involved in human and animal research. Trainees plan and conduct their research projects as independently as they can, but with full faculty mentoring. This program provides multidisciplinary training in basic and clinical-translational biological investigation, integrating state-of-the-art research techniques with important questions in perinatal medicine and biology. This approach equips the trainees with the capacity to move independently and successfully into academic careers in either basic or clinical-translational science. Over many years, graduates of this training program have achieved high academic positions nationally and internationally and have had major impact on developing and supporting research training programs. Such ultimate research/academic leadership is a major aim of this program.