Medical Scientist Training Program of Oregon Health & Science University

 描述(由申请者提供)：俄勒冈健康与科学大学(OHSU)的医学博士培训项目提供综合的医学和科学培训。研究生课程包括生物化学和分子生物学、生理学和药理学、遗传学、细胞和发育生物学、分子微生物学和免疫学、癌症生物学、神经科学、行为神经科学、生物医学工程和生物医学信息学。此外，随着我们新的公共卫生学院的开放，我们提供了1)流行病学，2)社区卫生，3)卫生系统和政策的博士学位。医学博士和博士课程的课程都有很大的不同(与普通医学或博士生的课程相比)，包括取消了医学硕士课程中的几个必修课和一个助理职位，并取消了研究生课程需要进行三次研究轮换的要求。除了我们的MD/博士生可以免学的几门研究生课程外，我们还建立了一个系统，允许我们的学生通过在期末考试中取得令人满意的分数来“挑战”任何研究生必修课。为了使研究生课程适合个人，一个由三名教员组成的科学监督委员会被分配给每个学生。我们还增加了几门专门针对医学博士项目的课程，包括要求5-6周的临床/翻译研究助理(位于我们由CTSA资助的俄勒冈州临床和翻译研究所)和必需的纵向临床轮换，在博士期间每月两个半天提供正式的、有指导的持续临床体验。广泛的学生跟踪和指导计划已经到位。我们的每月MD/PhD Grand Runds，由我们教员的内科科学家介绍，并采取基于案例的科学演讲介绍的形式，确保了对临床和翻译研究的持续接触，我们每周MD/PhD期刊俱乐部的指导方针要求文章必须牢牢地放在所展示的背景中的临床背景中。我们的年度医学博士/博士研究务虚会也有OHSU科学家的演讲，他们中的许多人都有翻译研究项目，以及一位具有国际声誉的主旨演讲者，他们的选择是因为他或她的研究的临床相关性和质量。我们培养公众演讲技能，为学生演讲提供多种机会，并得到项目主任的正式反馈。我们还强调赠款的编写技能，在起草和提交个人NRSA和来自专业协会的类似赠款方面提供多种来源的援助，获得资金的成功率非常高。我们新的医学院课程在重新进入MD项目的时间方面提供了更多的灵活性，并且应该避免学生花费超过7-8年的时间来完成项目，除非在特殊情况下。在医学院院长以及俄勒冈州临床和翻译研究所以及各院系的大力支持下，我们为培养下一代内科科学家提供了理想的环境。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The MD/PhD Training Program at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) offers integrated medical and scientific training. Graduate programs include Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Physiology and Pharmacology, Genetics, Cell and Developmental Biology, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Cancer Biology, Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering and Biomedical Informatics. In addition, with the opening of our new School of Public Health offering PhDs in 1) Epidemiology, 2) Community Health, and 3) Health Systems and Policy. Substantial differences in curricula for both the MD and PhD programs (compared with those for straight MD or PhD students) are in place, and include elimination of several required classes and one clerkship in the MD curriculum, and elimination of the requirement for three research rotations for the graduate programs. In addition to several graduate school courses that our MD/PhD students are excused from, a system is in place to allow our students to "challenge" any required graduate school course by achieving a satisfactory score on the final exam. To tailor the graduate curriculum appropriately for the individual, a Scientific Oversight Committee of three faculty is assigned to each student. We have also added several courses specific to the MD/PhD program, including a required 5 - 6 week Clinical/Translational Research Clerkship (housed in our CTSA funded Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute) and a required Longitudinal Clinical Rotation, providing a formalized, mentored ongoing clinical experience two half days a month during the PhD years. Extensive student tracking and mentorship programs are in place. Our monthly MD/PhD Grand Rounds, presented by physician scientists on our faculty and taking the form of a case based introduction to a scientific talk, assures ongoing exposure to clinical and translational research, and the guidelines for our weekly MD/PhD Journal Club require that the article be placed firmly in a clinical context in the background presented. Our annual MD/PhD Research Retreat also features talks by OHSU scientists, many of whom have translational research projects, as well a keynote speaker of international reputation, selected for the clinical relevance as well as quality of his or her research. We foste public speaking skills, providing multiple opportunities for student presentations, with formal feedback from the Program Director. We also emphasize grant writing skills, providing multiple sources of assistance in crafting and submitting individual NRSA and similar grants from professional societies, with a very high rate of success in achieving funding. Our new medical school curriculum provides added flexibility with respect to the timing of reentry into the MD program, and should avoid students taking more than 7 - 8 years to complete the program except in exceptional cases. With the strong support of the Dean of the School of Medicine as well as the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute and the Departments and Faculty as a whole, we provide an ideal environment for training the next generation of physician scientists.