Integrated Graduate Training Program in Neuroscience, UTHSCSA

描述（由申请人提供）：德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥健康科学中心（UTHSCSA）的神经科学综合研究生课程提供一系列神经科学研究领域和方法的多样化培训，从分子，细胞，神经化学到系统，行为和临床神经科学。来自UTHSCSA综合多学科研究生课程（IMGP）神经科学课程指导教师的34名培训教师。这个神经科学培训计划提供了一个研究课程，以满足学生的个人需求和兴趣，他们来自不同的基础生物科学背景，包括生物学，生物化学，分子生物学，心理学和神经科学。教育工作者和研究人员的互动和合作社区创造了一个具有挑战性但支持性的环境，在这个环境中，我们的学生可以发展成为成功的神经科学家。学生们申请并进入一个单一的综合“伞形”研究生项目，即IMGP，其中有10个主题定义的“专业”，神经科学是其中之一，横跨大学内的院系和学院。因此，在IMGP学习的第一年，学生们要学习生物医学科学的共同核心课程，并进行一系列的实验室轮岗。到了春天，他们开始区分开来，选择他们感兴趣的领域的课程，我们的课程是神经科学。然后他们选择一个导师和一个轨道，并开始他们的重点培训。在学习的第二年，我们为神经科学学生提供丰富的教学课程，强化实验室经验，专业发展机会（写作和口头报告），期刊俱乐部，研讨会，参与相关临床活动的机会，以及其他一些旨在促进他们专业发展和未来成功的丰富活动。学校在第一年为学生提供支持。因此，我们每年为3名学生申请资助，每人一年，在第二年的学习中，他们专注于神经科学课程的学习，加强他们的实验室研究以确定论文项目，并在第二年结束时准备他们的资格考试，之后他们进入博士候选资格并开始他们的论文研究。这些插槽中的一个或多个可用于支持医学博士/博士学生在神经科学项目培训的研究生组成部分的等效阶段。介绍了招聘策略，包括多元化招聘和负责任的研究行为培训。总而言之，自10年前成立以来，UTHSCSA的神经科学项目已经发展成为一个成熟而有效的项目，是研究生院最受欢迎的项目之一，拥有高效而专注的培训师资，健全的课程和运作良好的行政结构。如果获得资助，这项基础广泛的早期培训补助金

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Integrated Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) provides diverse training in a range of neuroscientific research areas and approaches, from molecular, cellular, and neurochemical to systems, behavioral and clinical neuroscience. There are 34 training faculty drawn from the mentoring faculty in the Neuroscience Track in the Integrated Multidisciplinary Graduate Program (IMGP) at UTHSCSA. This Neuroscience Training Program offers a course of study tailored to the individual needs and interests of students who come to us from a variety of backgrounds in the basic biological sciences, including biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, psychology and neuroscience. An interactive and collegial community of educators and researchers creates a challenging yet supportive environment within which our students can develop into successful neuroscientists. Students apply to and enter a single integrated "umbrella" graduate program, the IMGP, within which there are 10 thematically- defined "tracks", of which Neuroscience is one, that cut across departments and schools within the university. Thus, in their first year of study in the IMGP, students take a common core course in Biomedical Sciences and conduct a series of lab rotations. In the spring, they begin to differentiate and take courses specific to their area of interest, in our cas Neuroscience. They then select a mentor and a track, and begin their focused training. In the second year of study, we offer the Neuroscience students a rich curriculum of didactic courses, intensive laboratory experience, opportunities for professional development (writing and oral presentation), journal clubs, seminars, opportunities to engage in relevant clinical activities, an several other enrichment activities designed to enhance their professional development and future success. The institution supports the students in the first year. Thus, we are requesting funds for 3 students per year, for only one year each, in the second year of study, during which they focus on Neuroscience course work, intensify their laboratory research toward identifying a dissertation project, and prepare for their qualifying exam at the end of this second year, after which they enter doctoral candidacy and begin their dissertation research. One or more of these slots may be used to support MD/PhD student(s) at the equivalent stage of the graduate component of their training in the Neuroscience program. Strategies are described for recruitment, including recruitment for diversity, and for training in the responsible conduct of research. In sum, since its inception just 10 years ago, the Neuroscience Program at the UTHSCSA has emerged into a mature and effective program, one of the most popular in the Graduate School, with a productive and dedicated training faculty, a robust curriculum, and a well-functioning administrative structure. If funded, this broadly-based early-stage training grant will not only facilitate our further development and growth, it will also allow us the opportunity o offer a substantive return on that investment, by continuing on the forward and upward trajectory of both our program and our students.