Clinical Pharmacology Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）： 这是一个新的倡议，以支持医学博士博士后研究员在为期四年的临床药理学培训计划在约翰霍普金斯。它的目的是解决广泛公认的缺乏训练有素的医生科学家谁进行动手研究在人类，特别是在临床药理学领域。该计划集中在临床药理学部门，该部门是医学系和药理学与分子科学系联合的一个单位。最近在两个上级部门和部门本身的领导层变化提供了令人兴奋的新机会，正式的培训计划，直接联系分子和临床科学。拟议的四年计划包括一年的临床药理学核心课程（课程加三个研究轮换），然后是三年的临床研究博士学位授予研究生培训计划的论文研究。论文项目将包括一个分子以及临床组成部分，该司过去和现在的受训人员成功地使用了这一模式。基于现有部门教师的集体专业知识，研究可能会集中在抗感染药物的某些方面，新的重点是抗寄生虫药。每位学员将有一名主要导师，负责监督研究项目的临床方面，适当时由一名具有基础科学专业知识的共同导师补充。参与的教师不仅包括那些目前在临床药理学的部门，而且还选择了一组，以反映正在进行或可预见的研究合作和重要的教学协会。该计划将受益于咨询委员会的建议和监督，该委员会由约翰霍普金斯内外的杰出临床科学家组成。该计划的毕业生将拥有从事基础和临床药理学研究的独立职业的技能和知识。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a new initiative to support MD postdoctoral fellows in a four year clinical pharmacology training program at Johns Hopkins. It is designed to address the widely-recognized shortage of rigorously trained physician scientists who conduct hands-on studies in humans, particularly in the area of clinical pharmacology. The program is centered in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology, a unit jointly under the Department of Medicine and the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, in the School of Medicine. Recent leadership changes in both parent Departments and in the Division itself afford exciting new opportunities to formalize a training program that directly links molecular and clinical sciences. The proposed four year program includes a one year core curriculum in clinical pharmacology (coursework plus three research rotations) followed by three years of thesis research in the PHD-granting Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation. Thesis projects will include a molecular as well as a clinical component, a model used successfully with past and current trainees in the Division. Based on the collective expertise of the existing Division faculty, research is likely to focus on some aspect of anti-infective drugs, with a new emphasis on anti-parasitic agents. Each trainee will have a Primary' Mentor who will oversee the clinical aspects of the research project, complemented when appropriate by a Co-Mentor with expertise in basic science. The participating faculty includes not only those currently in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology but also a group chosen to reflect ongoing or foreseeable research collaborations and important teaching associations. The program will benefit from the advice and oversight of an Advisory Board comprised of distinguished clinician-scientists from within and outside of Johns Hopkins. Graduates from this program will have the skills and knowledge to undertake an independent career that features research in both basic and clinical pharmacology.