UW Radiological Sciences Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：该培训项目为博士前研究生和博士后研究人员在物理学在癌症医学诊断和治疗方面的应用做好准备。现有的研究专业包括应用于疾病诊断、针对患者的治疗和治疗效果评估的物理学的广泛领域，以及应用于癌症的基础物理学研究。医学物理系、放射学、人类肿瘤学（放射肿瘤学）、肿瘤学、工程物理学和生物医学工程系的导师和合作者与其他临床和基础科学研究人员保持着广泛的研究合作。转化的、团队驱动的研究包括肿瘤学系的放射治疗和放射生物学，放射学系的传统x射线、数字、CT、MRI、超声和PET成像，以及物理、核工程和人类肿瘤学系的放射物理学。受训者作为合作者密切参与这些研究项目，发表联合研究文章，并在外部资助的资助和合同中担任调查员。广泛的教师联系提供了领导和监督。除了研究活动和辅修科目的要求外，医学物理学博士预科生作为研究生至少要修27个学分，以支持医学物理学训练，并以他们的研究专业为导向。鼓励博士后学员旁听适当的课程，拓宽和深化学术训练。博士前和博士后学员都必须学习或旁听额外的癌症相关课程，必须参加相关的大型报告会，必须参加关于手稿写作和拨款写作的密集研讨会。受训者举办研讨会，参加座谈会，在地方、国家和国际会议上展示研究成果，并共同撰写文章和报告。每年的培训补助金研讨会为受训者提供了额外的机会，向医学物理和合作教师展示研究成果。通过这种方式，该项目的学员将做好充分的准备，以担任研究人员和学者的领导职位，将物理学应用于癌症的预防、诊断和治疗。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This training program prepares predoctoral graduate students and postdoctoral researchers for careers in the application of physics to the medical diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Available research specializations encompass broad areas of physics as applied to disease diagnosis, patient-specific treatment and assessment of treatment efficacy, and basic physics research applied to cancer. Mentors and collaborators in the Departments of Medical Physics, Radiology, Human Oncology (Radiation Oncology), Oncology, Engineering Physics, and Biomedical Engineering maintain a broad spectrum of research collaborations with other clinical and basic science researchers. Translational, team-driven research includes radiation therapy and radiation biology with the Department of Oncology, traditional x-ray, digital, CT, MRI, ultrasound, and PET imaging with the Department of Radiology, and radiation physics with the Departments of Physics and Nuclear Engineering and Human Oncology. Trainees are intimate participants in these research programs as collaborators, publishing joint research articles, and performing as investigators in extramurally funded grants and contracts. Extensive faculty contact provides leadership and supervision. Beyond research activities and minor subject requirements, predoctoral trainees as graduate students in Medical Physics take at least twenty-seven credits supportive of medical physics training and oriented towards their research specialization. Postdoctoral trainees are encouraged to broaden and deepen their academic training by auditing appropriate courses. Both predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees must take or audit additional cancer-specific courses, must attend relevant grand round presentations, and must participate in intensive workshops on manuscript writing and grant writing. Trainees give seminars, attend colloquia, present research results at local, national, and international meetings, and co-author articles and reports. An annual Training Grant Symposium provides additional opportunity for trainees to present research results to the Medical Physics and collaborating faculty. In this way trainees in this program are well prepared to assume leadership positions as researchers and academicians in the application of physics to cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.