Research Training in Rheumatology

项目摘要/摘要 尽管风湿病给美国人口带来了越来越大的负担，但全国范围内仍缺乏 主要医疗中心的风湿病研究人员正在努力寻找这些衰弱的原因和治疗方法 精神错乱。华盛顿大学(UW)的风湿病培训项目旨在帮助 解决这一重要不足，并有长期的成功记录。威斯康星州威斯康星州具有很强的吸引力 来自住院医师计划和全国范围内的合格实习生，他们有动力帮助填补这一空缺 有急事。我们的成人和儿科综合培训计划的目标是利用我们独特的 医学和科学环境是为医学博士和博士后提供高质量的基础或临床 对风湿病进行科学培训，并使他们具备成为独立学术研究人员的能力。我们 保持了基本、临床和转换三条途径，以适应需求、兴趣和 申请者和导师在项目中的技能。我们已经改进了我们的训练计划。 上一个资助期：1)促进这些途径之间以及成人和儿科之间的相互对话 导师和实习生；2)招募新的教师到成人和儿科风湿科3)优化 我们优秀的现有导师库，并招募新的导师和合作导师，以促进培训；4) 将我们的实习导师提升为计划中的导师；以及5)增加ACGME的数量 研究员职位6)制定计划，进一步增加受训人员的多样性。 拟议的培训需要4个博士后研究金职位。基于吸引客户的需要 医学生要在风湿病这个激动人心的领域取得成功，我们也要求 继续为医科学生开设两个年度短期暑期选修课。该奖学金计划对医学博士开放 已完成风湿病学临床一年的人和已完成其认可培训的博士。 临床研究途径中的MDS进入流行病学或公共卫生硕士或证书课程 在威斯康星大学公共卫生学院。我们典型的实习生完成2-3年的基础/临床科学培训 在此期间，所有学员都要发表他们的作品，并提交一份奖学金(S)。一口井- 设计的核心课程、正式的指导计划和个性化的监督帮助学员实现职业生涯 和科学指导，并为受训人员提供撰写赠款的基本技能和 长期的成功。最后，由威斯康星大学内部和外部专家组成的委员会协助联合计划 指导方案治理，并确保方案基准和期望是 已实现。

Project Summary/Abstract Despite the increasing burden of rheumatic diseases on the US population, there is a national shortage of rheumatology investigators in major medical centers working to find the causes and cures of these debilitating disorders. The Rheumatology Training Program at the University of Washington (UW) is designed to help address this important shortfall and has a long-standing track record of success. The UW attracts highly qualified trainees both from within the residency program and nationally that are motivated to help fill this urgent need. The goal of our combined adult and pediatric training program that takes advantage of our unique medical and scientific environment is to provide MD and PhD postdoctoral fellows high quality basic or clinical science training in rheumatic disease and to equip them to become independent academic researchers. We have maintained the 3 pathways -basic, clinical and translational to accommodate the needs, interests and skills of both the applicant pool and mentors in the program. We have improved our training program during the last funding period by: 1) fostering cross-talk between these pathways and between adult and pediatric mentors and trainees; 2) recruiting new faculty to both adult and pediatric rheumatology divisions 3) optimizing our pool of outstanding established mentors and recruiting new mentors and co-mentors to facilitate training; 4) “promoting” our mentors-in-training to mentors in the program; and 5) increasing the number of ACGME fellowship positions 6) instituting plans to further increase diversity of trainees. The proposed training requests 4 postdoctoral fellowship positions. Based on the need to attract medical students to the exciting field of rheumatology and success in this current cycle, we also request continuing 2 annual short-term summer electives for medical students. The fellowship program is open to MDs who have completed a clinical year in Rheumatology and PhDs who have completed their accredited training. MDs in the clinical research pathway enter the Masters or Certificate Program in epidemiology or public health at the UW School of Public Health. Our typical trainee completes 2-3 years of basic / clinical science training during which time all trainees are expected to publish their work and submit a fellowship(s) grant. A well- designed core curriculum, formal mentoring program and individualized oversight assists trainees with career and scientific guidance, and provides trainees with essential skills in grant writing and other assets required for long-term success. Finally, a committee comprising UW internal and external experts assist the joint Program Directors in programmatic governance, and to ensure the programmatic benchmarks and expectations are achieved.