Medical Scientist Training Program Grant

描述(由申请人提供)：罗切斯特大学在培养内科科学家方面有着悠久的历史，有许多校友在学术医学中心担任领导职务。在1997年启动的一项为期十年、耗资5.5亿美元的战略计划的推动下，医学中心正在享受前所未有的增长，新的空间可容纳80名研究密集型教师，他们被组织成高度互动的小组。严谨和创新的教育课程与由一流教员组成的丰富的研究环境相结合，为生物医学科学方面的内科科学家的培训和将其有意义地转化为患者护理提供了绝佳的机会。为了利用这些机会，该大学致力于扩大其医学/博士项目，该项目始于两年前，额外录取了三名高素质的学生。为了证明我们不断努力创造最佳的培训体验，我们建立了一个新的管理结构，对该项目提供了更多的监督，并建立了一个咨询系统，将学生与职业医生兼科学家在整个项目的整个任期内配对。通过在培训的所有阶段增加研究生工作的时间，创建MSTP特定的基于问题的学习小组，以及引入医学科学推理课程，在头两个项目年为学生开设了一个课程，改善了医学和研究生课程的整合。此外，为所有博士项目设立了严格的医学博士/博士专业课程，包括生物医学工程、流行病学、卫生服务研究以及生物统计学和计算生物学的新课程。加上罗切斯特大学的承诺，此次续签的资金将确保我们最有资格的参与者发展技能和洞察力，在这个生物医学研究的动态时代，启动和领导从实验室工作台或专门分析到患者护理的转换。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Rochester has a long history of training physician-scientists, with numerous alumni in leadership positions at academic medical centers. Fueled by a ten-year $550 million strategic plan initiated in 1997, the Medical Center is enjoying unprecedented growth with new space for 80 research-intensive faculty organized into highly interactive groups. The combination of a rigorous and innovative educational curriculum with a rich research environment staffed by superlative faculty provides outstanding opportunities for the training of physician-scientists in biomedical sciences and for its meaningful translation to patient care. To capitalize on these opportunities, the University has committed its MD/PhD program to an expansion, which began two years ago with the matriculation of three additional highly qualified students. As evidence of our continuous effort to create the optimal training experience, we have instituted a new administrative structure that provides greater oversight of the program and an advisory system that pairs students with career physician-scientists for their entire tenure in the program. Improved integration of medical and graduate curricula has been achieved by increasing the time available for graduate work in all phases of training, creating MSTP specific problem-based learning groups, and introducing Scientific Reasoning in Medicine, a class for students in the first two program years. Moreover, rigorous MD/PhD specific curricula have been instituted for all PhD programs, including new programs in Biomedical Engineering, Epidemiology, Health Services Research, and Biostatistics and Computational Biology. Coupled with the University of Rochester's commitment, funds from this renewal will ensure that our most qualified participants will develop the skills and insights to initiate and lead the translation from laboratory bench or specialized analyses to patient care during this dynamic era of biomedical research.