UM Clinical Neuroscientist Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：我们治疗神经系统疾病的能力与我们对正常神经系统功能、疾病发病机制和疾病病理生理学的快速增长的理解之间存在明显差距。改善神经系统疾病的治疗需要大大改善新兴的基础神经科学与临床实践的整合，从基础发现到临床前和临床研究再到实施。改善以疾病为导向的神经科学研究活动的整合和更有效的翻译的障碍是缺乏 训练有素的临床神经科学家美国医学院毕业的医生数量可观，具有丰富的研究经验，包括医学博士/博士和个人与临床和政策研究的重要经验和正规培训。然而，传统的临床培训结构阻碍了这些有才华和训练有素的个人有效地开展富有成效的独立研究事业的能力。我们提出了一个住院医师奖学金为基础的培训计划，将住院医师奖学金为基础的临床培训与指导研究培训相结合，以将神经病学，神经外科和神经病理学中有才华和经验的受训者推向独立职业生涯的初始阶段。密歇根大学临床神经科学家培训计划（UMCNTP）的目标是为有才华的临床神经科学家在疾病导向的神经科学研究的全方位的独立研究职业做好准备。UMCNTP是一个综合住院医师奖学金计划，旨在为有才华的初出茅庐的临床神经科学家成功申请最初的独立职业支持做好准备。UMCNTP在经验丰富的高级调查员的指导下融合了富有成效的指导研究经验，并提供有针对性的教学和实践职业培训，为UMCNTP学员成功的职业发展应用做好准备，如K 08，K23，VA CDA或同等职位。UMCNTP在部门中有一个强大的导师名册。神经病学，神经外科和病理学，一个基于培训临床神经科学家的非常成功的经验的培训计划，利用密歇根大学提供的优秀职业发展资源，并借鉴了密歇根大学神经科学研究社区的巨大多样性和普遍卓越性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a marked gap between our ability to treat neurologic diseases and our rapidly increasing understanding of normal nervous system function, disease pathogenesis, and disease pathophysiology. Improving treatment of neurologic diseases requires considerably improved integration of burgeoning basic neuroscience with clinical practice across the translational spectrum from basic discovery through preclinical and clinical research to implementation. An obstacle to improved integration of disease-oriented neuroscience research activities and more efficient translation is a deficit of appropriately trained clinician-neuroscientists. American medical schools graduate significant numbers of physicians with substantial research experience, including MD/PhDs and individuals with significant experience with and formal training in clinical and policy research. The traditionl clinical training structure, however, impedes the ability of these talented and well trained individuals to efficiently initiate productive, independent research careers. We propose a residency- fellowship based training program integrating residency-fellowship based clinical training with mentored research training to move talented and experienced trainees in Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Neuropathology to the initial stage of an independent career. The goal of the University of Michigan Clinical Neuroscientist Training Program (UMCNTP) is prepare talented clinician-neuroscientists for independent research careers across the full spectrum of disease-oriented neuroscience research. The UMCNTP is an integrated residency- fellowship program to prepare talented fledgling clinician-neuroscientists for successful applications for initial independent career support. The UMCNTP melds productive mentored research experience under the guidance of experienced senior investigators with focused didactic and hands-on career training to prepare UMCNTP trainees for successful career development applications such as K08, K23, VA CDA, or equivalents. The UMCNTP features a strong roster of mentors in the Depts. of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Pathology, a training program based on highly successful prior experiences with training clinician-neuroscientists, utilizes excellent career development resources available at the University of Michigan, and draws on the great diversity and general excellence of the Neuroscience research community of the University of Michigan.