Endocrinology-Reproductive Physiology Training Grant

描述(由申请人提供)：内分泌学和生殖生理学(ERP)研究生培训计划是一个跨学科的内分泌计划，主要关注生殖生物学和生理学，与母婴健康以及宫内规划和成人发病疾病的起源直接相关。这是利用多学科方法实现的，从分子生物学到比较动物和越来越多的人类临床生理学。在第二个资金周期中，我们继续在进一步发展我们的培训计划方面取得实质性进展，特别是在翻译的多学科培训环境、强劲的专业发展以及非常成功的少数族裔招募和培训计划方面。我们所有受训人员的成果在出版物和安置方面都很出色。企业资源规划培训环境强烈强调建立多学科和跨学科团队，其成员既有医学博士又有博士学位。为此，我们最近加入了在企业资源规划内建立的新开发的学位研究金轨道上攻读研究生学位的MD研究员的行列。虽然医学博士候选人不是T32博士前申请支持的候选人，但我们希望审查者意识到它的存在。我们相信，所有医学博士和博士生都能从手头研究项目的集体“翻译对话”中受益，这种对话将促进未来翻译工作的理论和实践模式的发展。最终结果是一个更强大、更有活力的培训环境，并继续招聘更多的教师，让所有人都能享受。如果我们要在对研究人员的支持减少而对临床医生的要求增加的情况下保持未来的跨学科翻译研究团队成员，这种混合的培训环境是非常必要的。最后，我们在招收和毕业多元化学生方面取得了相当大的成功。虽然建议书详细介绍了我们多方面的方法，但这是一项卓越的成功，我们拥有最高水平的市建局参与和毕业成功，我们对此感到自豪，这是可以理解的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology (ERP) Graduate Training Program is an interdisciplinary endocrine program with a major focus on reproductive biology and physiology, with direct relevance to maternal and child health as well as intrauterine programming and the origins of adult onset disease. This has been achieved using multidisciplinary approaches from molecular biology to comparative animal and increasingly human clinical physiology. In this second funding cycle we continue to make substantial progress in the further development of our training program, particularly with regard to a translational multidisciplinary training environment, strong professional development and a highly successful minority recruitment and training program. The outcomes for all of our Trainees have been outstanding both in publications and placement. The ERP training environment strongly emphasizes the building of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams, the members of which are both MD and PhD. To that end we have recently been joined by MD fellows undergoing graduate degree study in a newly developed Degree Fellowship Track created within ERP. While MD candidates are not candidates for support under this T32 Predoctoral application, we wish the reviewers to be aware of its existence. We believe all MD and PhD trainees benefit from a collective 'translational dialogue' of the research projects in hand and such a dialogue promotes the development of both theoretical and practical models for translational work in the future. The end result is a stronger, more vibrant training environment with the continuing recruitment of additional faculty, for all to enjoy. This blended training environment is very much needed if we are to maintain a future pool of interdisciplinary translational research team members at a time of otherwise reduced support for research faculty and increasing demands on clinicians to be in the clinics. Finally we have achieved considerable success in recruiting and graduating students of diversity. While the details of our multifaceted approach are detailed in the proposal, this has been an outstanding success and we have one of the highest levels of URM participation and indeed graduation success, of which we are understandably proud.