Training in Reproductive Sciences

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的10年中，有几份报告涉及临床部门缺乏足够的基础研究。生殖研究培训是国家儿童健康和人类发展研究所五个必要的方案领域之一。我们的目标是，通过这个培训计划，招募合格的博士。科学家接受生殖科学的博士后培训，并促进他们在这一领域的职业发展和保留。该申请的长期目标是利用OB/GYN部门的重要资源和经验，培养和促进生殖科学未来领导者的发展，具有基础和临床研究的双重优势。我们在该计划的具体目标是选择和招募有才华的博士后研究员，并在高素质导师的实验室提供研究培训职位。该研究计划是建立在三个小组的九名教师导师之间的合作努力：分子生殖内分泌学，生物学和母胎相互作用，以及妇科肿瘤学。因此，这个高度结构化的计划将使学员有机会在华盛顿大学的一流科学环境中成为一名多方面的生殖科学家。学员将在导师的指导下积极参与实验室正在进行的研究。此外，该部门和医学院的资源被纳入本计划作为学员的职业发展工具，如赠款和手稿写作以及在导师的协作努力下的职业发展，这些导师高度致力于博士后培训并具有丰富的经验。新成立的华盛顿大学医学院研究生事务办公室也为这些人提供了良好的支持和资源。我们积极的少数族裔招聘计划涵盖了详细的战略，并概述了我们在这一重要组成部分的严格努力。如果我们的目标取得成功，该计划将产生训练有素和有竞争力的生殖科学家，他们将以坚实的基础科学方法追求临床，循证问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over the past 10 years there have been several reports concerned with the lack of sufficient basic research in the clinical departments. Research training in reproduction is targeted as one of five needed Program areas within the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. It is our goal, through this Training Program is to recruit qualified Ph.D. scientists to undergo postdoctoral training in Reproductive Science and to facilitate their career development and retention in this field. The long-term objective of this application is to take advantage of the significant resources and experience within the Department of OB/GYN to train and promote the development of future leaders in the reproductive sciences with dual strengths in basic and clinical research. Our specific aim in this program is to select and recruit talented, postdoctoral fellows and offer a research training position in the laboratory of a highly qualified mentor. The research program is built upon collaborative efforts among nine faculty mentors in three subgroups: molecular reproductive endocrinology, biology and maternal-fetal interactions, and gynecologic oncology. Thus, this highly structured Program will allow trainees the opportunity to mature as a multi-faceted reproductive scientist in a superb scientific setting at Washington University. Trainees will actively participate in ongoing research in a laboratory under the mentor's supervision. In addition, resources of the department and the medical campus are incorporated in this Program as career development tools for trainees, such as grant and manuscript writing and career development within the collaborative efforts of mentors highly committed to and experienced in postdoctoral training. The newly founded Office of Post Graduate Affairs at Washington University School of Medicine also provides excellent support and resources to these individuals. Our active Minority Recruitment plan covers detailed strategies and outlines our rigorous efforts at this important component. If successful in our aim, this Program will produce well-trained and competitive reproductive scientists who will pursue clinical, evidence-based questions with a solid, basic science-derived approach.