Neuroscience Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：神经科学研究生项目始于1983年，总部设在约翰·霍普金斯大学医学院神经科学系。它由来自大学不同系的85名教职员工组成，是培养研究生的广泛努力的中心，包括分子、细胞、发育、系统、认知和计算神经科学以及疾病神经生物学。每年，从大约200名申请者中，我们通常会录取10-12名博士研究生，以及1-4名医学博士/博士结合学位的候选人(通过单独的程序录取)。参加该项目的学生具有从计算机科学到生物化学的不同本科背景。在第一年，他们被要求与实验室一起参加为期一年的综合讲座课程，题为“神经科学和认知”，以及一个关于“科学、伦理和社会”的研讨会。研究机会通过系休息会、实验室午餐(以正在进行的工作为特色)和由项目学院专门设计的小型研讨会系列来提供给学生，以帮助一年级学生选择他们的研究轮换。这些信息被用来帮助选择三个12周的实验室轮换，通常在第一个学年结束前完成，然后选择一个论文实验室。到第二年结束时，学生将完成六门额外的选修课，其中许多是从神经科学专业的12门小型研讨会式课程中挑选出来的。在完成第二年末的综合考试后，学生们要写一份以博士前NRSA形式写成的论文提案并为其辩护。每名学生在第一年和第二年(每隔三个月)由两名预科导师提供建议，此后(每隔六个月)由一个个性化的论文顾问委员会提供建议。论文咨询委员会向研究生项目指导委员会提交报告，该委员会仔细跟踪每个学生在项目中的进展情况，并制定总体项目政策。目前，神经科学研究生项目招收了70名学生。完成博士学位的平均时间为5.1年。在我们项目毕业的学生中，92%的人留在了生物医学研究领域，85%的人留在了学术生物医学研究领域。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Neuroscience Graduate Program, which was begun in 1983, has its headquarters in the Department of Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Consisting of 85 faculty drawn from various departments across the University, it serves as the hub of a broad spectrum of efforts for the training of graduate students, encompassing molecular, cellular, developmental, systems, cognitive and computational neuroscience as well as neurobiology of disease. Each year, from a pool of ~200 applicants, we typically matriculate 10-12 Ph.D. candidates as well as one to four candidates for combined M.D./Ph.D. degrees (who are admitted through a separate process). Students enter the program with diverse undergraduate backgrounds ranging from computer science to biochemistry. In the first year they are required to take a year-long integrative lecture course with lab entitled "Neuroscience and Cognition" as well as a seminar on "Science, Ethics and Society". Research opportunities are presented to students through a Departmental Retreat, Lab Lunches (which feature work-in-progress) and a Mini-symposium series by Program Faculty specifically designed to help first-year students choose their research rotations. This information is used to help pick three 12-week lab rotations which are typically completed by the end of the first academic year, following which, a thesis lab is selected. By the end of the second year, students complete six additional elective courses, many of which are chosen from a list of 12 small seminar-style courses in Neuroscience specialties. Following completion of a Comprehensive Exam at the end of Year Two, students write and defend a Thesis Proposal which is written in the form of a Predoctoral NRSA. Each student is advised by two Prethesis Advisors in Years One and Two (at three month intervals) and an individualized Thesis Advisory Committee thereafter (at six month intervals). Thesis Advisory Committees make reports to the Graduate Program Steering Committee which carefully tracks the progress of each student in the program as well as setting overall program policy. At present, 70 students are enrolled in the Neuroscience Graduate program. The average time to complete the Ph.D. has been 5.1 years. Of the students who have graduated from our program 92% have remained in biomedical research and 85% have remained in academic biomedical research.