UAB Predoctoral Training Program in Lung Diseases

摘要 UAB肺部疾病博士前培训计划（“该计划”）旨在 培养杰出的生物医学科学家从事肺部研究。这开始于一个 早期的培训水平，因此，我们设计了我们的计划，重点是博士前学员（n = 每年3名，每名受训人员有2年的培训期）。该计划旨在提供 通过三个途径进行教学式教育、培训和指导：（1）具体的研究生课程 （i）肺部疾病的生物学和（ii）呼吸生理学，（2）学员与 临床导师，除了他们的研究导师和（3）每周暴露于肺特异性 基础、转化和临床研究以及临床医学会议。培训更进一步 通过UAB临床和转化中心的众多丰富活动的支持， 科学和UAB研究生院以及年度科学务虚会。程序 有24个主要的研究导师分为三大领域的肺部疾病，（1）肺炎 和哮喘，（2）COPD、CF和肺损伤，和（3）IPF、BPD和肺动脉高压，和 横跨五个部门和成人和小儿肺科。这些主要 导师的选择是基于研究生产力，重大赠款支持， 作为博士前导师的合作和承诺。该计划受到密切监控 由项目主任和副主任，指导委员会，内部顾问 委员会和一个外部咨询委员会（后两个委员会主要是 包括目前的机构培训赠款方案主任）。所需经费增加 每个受训者包括创建个人发展计划（IDP），参与肺 研究核心课程，包括新兴的主题，如信号转导， 生物能量学、“大数据”、计算生物学和个性化医疗，以及其他 专业沟通技巧和团队管理课程。临床角度 将在整个培训期间强调这一点， 肺科医生/临床导师（n = 20），将作为实习生论文委员会成员 提供临床经验。最后，该计划有强大的机构支持， UAB，包括对计划领导和其他计划的财政支持 发展该计划将利用UAB肺部研究的最新增长， 培养高水平的培训经验，培养下一代优秀的肺 研究人员

ABSTRACT The UAB Predoctoral Training Program in Lung Diseases grant (“The Program”) seeks to develop outstanding biomedical scientists for a career in pulmonary research. This begins at an early level of training, thus we have designed our program to focus on predoctoral trainees (n = 3 per year, each trainee having a 2 year training period). The Program is structured to provide didactic education, training and mentoring via three avenues: (1) specific graduate coursework on the (i) biology of lung diseases and (ii) respiratory physiology, (2) pairing of trainees with clinical mentors in addition to their research mentors and (3) weekly exposure to lung-specific basic, translational and clinical research and clinical medicine conferences. Training is further supported by numerous enrichment activities via the UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences and the UAB Graduate School as well as an annual scientific retreat. The Program has 24 primary research mentors divided into three broad areas of lung disease, (1) pneumonia and asthma, (2) COPD, CF and lung injury and (3) IPF, BPD and pulmonary hypertension, and spans five departments and both adult and pediatric Pulmonary Divisions. These primary mentors have been chosen on the basis of research productivity, significant grant support, collegiality and commitment to serve as predoctoral mentors. The Program is closely monitored by a Program Director and Associate Director, a Steering Committee, an Internal Advisory Committee and an External Advisory Committee (the latter two of which are predominantly comprised of current institutional training grant Program Directors). Additional requirements for each trainee include creating an individual development plan (IDP), participation in a Pulmonary Research Core Curriculum that includes emerging themes such as signal transduction, bioenergetics, “big data” and computational biology and personalized medicine, and additional coursework on professional communication skills and team management. A clinical perspective will be stressed throughout the training period, which will be facilitated by a pulmonologist/clinical mentor (n = 20) who will serve on a trainee’s dissertation committee as well as provide clinical experiences. Finally, the Program has strong institutional support from UAB that includes financial support for program leadership and additional programmatic development. This Program will capitalize on the recent growth in lung research at UAB and foster high-level training experiences to develop the next generation of outstanding lung researchers.