Research Training in Otolaryngology

描述（申请人提供）：我们的项目旨在培养和发展将推进耳鼻喉头颈外科领域的内科科学家。我们的亚专业需要广泛的专业知识和科学策略来理解和治疗沟通障碍和头颈部疾病。这些疾病可以限制生存，并更广泛地影响与家庭、工作场所和整个社会联系的能力。我们的目标是提供科学培训，以及沟通和管理技能，使我们的毕业生成为未来耳鼻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，也是非常值得骄傲的一点，是在霍普金斯大学和其他地方从事学术事业的受训者的数量，其中包括一些现在是这项培训资助的教员。每年有两名住院医师在第三年接受为期两年的研究培训。这些受训者可以从本系以及霍普金斯大学和其他地方的相关实验室广泛而深入的研究项目中进行选择。主题包括但不限于：头颈部癌症的分子生物学，头晕和平衡的基本机制和治疗创新，听觉神经系统的研究，包括耳蜗植入的利用和结果，鼻窦炎的发病机制，流行病学和基因组关联研究。我们的目标是培养热情，好奇，批判和知识渊博的年轻研究人员，他们可以提出并回答重要问题，并且能够在学术医学中进行成功，独立的研究事业。

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.