Training Clinical Scientists in Radiological Imaging

描述（由申请人提供）：加州大学圣地亚哥分校放射学系正在重新提交一份竞争性更新的博士后培训补助金，用于医疗住院医师，“培训放射成像临床科学家”。在第一个五年资助周期之后，该部门的创新培训计划取得了巨大成功。这群学员已经开始加入学术部门，开始他们自己的学术生涯，在高影响力期刊上有出色的发表记录，他们的工作获得了奖励，其中一篇是2011年在Neuroimage上被引用最多的文章，并且已经获得了支持他们工作的资助和2项NIH R01资助来支持导师。成像在临床护理和生物医学研究中的作用越来越大，这导致了对尖端成像科学熟练的临床医生-科学家的迫切需求。目前，在美国有一大批优秀的医学生申请学术放射学住院医师项目，他们中有大约20名医学博士或博士，以及大约50名医学博士，他们每年在医学院花了大约1年的专门研究时间。只有一小部分人被吸引留在放射科从事学术研究。本提案中描述的培训计划建立在该部门经过验证的4年临床培训计划的基础上，在住院医师开始时增加了一个完整的研究年，然后在整个临床培训中建立，每年花费6周的专门研究时间。该部门的五年放射学住院医师计划将为申请人提供三个为期一年的名额。目标是根据每个申请人的个人需求定制培训计划，并最大限度地提高受训者在加州大学圣地亚哥分校的研究经验。临床培训除了满足委员会认证的要求外，还将侧重于学员特别感兴趣的领域。临床年将是连续的，以最大限度地提高学员的学习；然而，受训者在加州大学圣地亚哥分校期间将与他们的研究导师保持联系。在受训者的研究年期间，每位实验室负责人提供的指导以及临床科学家在五年住院医师期间提供的指导将把他们的研究和临床经验联系起来，并为他们未来作为临床科学家的职业生涯提供榜样。除了研究机会和职业指导之外，该计划还包括针对每个实习生的需求量身定制的专门讲座和针对学术放射科医生的讲习班。匹配项目提供了一个专注于临床科学家职业生涯的综合培训项目，确保所有申请人都有平等的机会，并允许我们在住院医生的早期培训中参与其中，从而培养出忠诚、训练有素的临床科学家。加州大学圣地亚哥分校非常适合培养下一代成像科学家。为此，我们召集了16位放射学导师和8位非放射学导师，他们在过去10年中共培训了300多名学员，获得了110多项有效资助和7000万美元的资助，他们的学员发表了近700篇论文，其中大部分发表在高影响力期刊上。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The UC San Diego Department of Radiology is resubmitting a competitive renewal of its postdoctoral training grant for medical residents, "Training Clinical Scientists in Radiological Imaging". Following its first five-year funding cycle the department's innovative training program has met with great success. The group of trainees has begun joining academic departments to embark on their own academic careers, with excellent publication records in high impact journals, awards for their work-one for being the most cited article in Neuroimage in 2011-and having already been awarded grants to support their work and 2 NIH R01 grants to support mentor. The growing role of imaging in clinical care and biomedical research has resulted in an acute need for clinician- scientists skilled in cutting-edge imaging science. At present, there exists a talented pool of medical student applicants to academic radiology residency programs across the U.S.A. with >20 MD/PhDs and a >50 MDs that have spent >1 year of dedicate research time during medical school per year. Only a small fraction is enticed to stay in academic radiology and pursue research. The training program described in this proposal builds on the department's proven 4-year clinical training program by adding a full research year at the beginning of residency that is then built upon throughout the clinical training by spending 6 weeks of dedicated research time per year for the balance of the 4 years. Three one-year slots will be made available to applicants to the department's five-year radiology residency program. The goal is to tailor the training program to the individual needs of each applicant and to maximize trainees' research experience at UCSD. Clinical training will focus on areas of specific interest to the trainee in addition to meeting requirements for board certification. The clinical years will be consecutive to maximize trainees' learning; however, trainees will maintain contact with their research mentors throughout their stay at UCSD. The mentorship provided by each laboratory leader during trainees' research year and by the clinical scientist throughout the five-year residency will link their research and clinical experiences and provide them a model for future careers as clinical scientists. In addition to research opportunities and career mentorship, the program includes specialized lectures tailored to the needs of each trainee and workshop specific to academic radiologists. A Match Program-offered integrated training program focusing on the career of clinical scientists ensures equal access to all applicants and allows us to engage residents early in their training, resulting in committed, well-trained clinical scientists. UCSD is well suited to train the next generation of imaging scientists. For this proposal, we have assembled 16 Radiology and 8 non-radiology mentors that together have trained over 300 trainees in the past 10 years, have over 110 active grants and $70M in grant support and their trainees have published nearly 700 papers most of which is in high impact journals.