Training the Next Generation of Clinician Scientist

临床科学家是生物医学研究队伍的重要组成部分。不幸的是，早期的职业生涯 临床医生目前在资助的研究人员中所占的比例比以往任何时候都要小，而且 临床医生科学家正在缩水。这项T35培训拨款提案寻求继续进行高生产率的培训 该计划的总体目标是鼓励有才华和积极性的医学生和药学学生 作为临床科学家的职业。吸引有兴趣的医学生从事内科科学家职业的计划 补充MD-PhD培训计划，因为MD科学家更有可能从事患者- 与医学博士和医学博士科学家相比，以研究为导向的科学家更多地选择研究作为职业 与通常在医学院之前选择的MD-PhD科学家相比，医学博士在医学院期间选择的方向。在……里面 在下一个资助期，我们建议将该计划扩大到包括药学专业的学生，以培训药剂师 科学家在传染病新疗法的研究中发挥着越来越重要的作用 免疫紊乱，包括癌症。除了扩大临床医生科学家的队伍外，这种方法 为医学生和药学博士研究生提供有价值的跨专业研究经验 在一起。该项目在第一年和第二年之间提供研究和职业发展经验 专业学校，建立在布法罗大学和罗斯威尔公园综合体之间的合作伙伴关系上 癌症中心。培训计划取得了巨大的成功。在最初的十年里，每个职位 在完成为期九周的课程的70名学生中，100%都是满座。这个节目已经影响了 医学生如何看待研究和学术生涯。一些学生还在继续进行研究， 在国家会议上发表了他们的工作，在同行评议的期刊上发表了论文，并正在 学术生涯之路。这一计划的一个重要优先事项，我们将继续强调，是 从生物医学、临床、行为和社会领域代表性不足的群体中招募个人 科学。在上一个五年资助期间，30%的学生是代表不足的少数族裔和 63%是女性。除了每年包括一到两名药学专业的学生外，我们还建议再增加两名 在下一个资金期进行创新。完成该计划的学生将获得数字徽章和 获得微证书的机会，这是一种新兴的创新教育方法，授予 完成一次学习体验。它们可以在ePortfolio、数字简历或链接的个人资料上共享，以及 作为一种记录培训的方式，越来越受到教育和行业的重视，学习者可以通过 随着他们事业的发展。第二个创新是我们将在我们的管道上建设，以吸引来自 通过与内部方案和其他机构的伙伴关系，代表人数不足的群体。这台T35 旨在将医学生和药剂学学生引入临床科学家职业生涯的计划，反应迅速 将增加美国生物医学研究队伍中的临床医生科学家数量列为国家优先事项。

Clinician scientists are a vital component of the biomedical research workforce. Unfortunately, early career clinicians currently make up a smaller share of funded investigators than ever, and the training pipeline for clinician scientists is shrinking. This T35 training grant proposal seeks continuation of a highly productive training program with an overall goal of encouraging talented and motivated medical students and pharmacy students to careers as clinician scientists. Programs to attract interested medical students to careers as physician scientists complement MD-PhD training programs because MD scientists are more likely to become engaged in patient- oriented research compared to MD-PhD scientists and MD scientists more often choose research as a career direction during medical school compared to MD-PhD scientists who generally choose before medical school. In the next funding period we propose to expand the program to include pharmacy students to train pharmacist scientists, who play an increasingly important role in research in new therapeutics in infectious diseases and immunological disorders, including cancer. In addition to expanding the pool of clinician scientists, this approach provides valuable interprofessional research experiences for medical students and PharmD students to work together. The program offers a research and career development experience between the first and second year of professional school, building on a partnership between University at Buffalo and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. The training program has been enormously successful. During the first ten years, every position has been filled with 100% of 70 students completing the nine-week program. The program has influenced medical students in how they view research and academic careers. Several students have continued in research, have presented their work at national conferences, published papers in peer-reviewed journals and are on academic career paths. An important priority of this program, which we will continue to emphasize, is the recruitment of individuals from groups that are underrepresented in the biomedical, clinical, behavioral and social sciences. During the previous five-year funding period, 30% of students were underrepresented minorities and 63% were women. In addition to including one to two PharmD students per year, we propose two additional innovations in the next funding period. Students who complete the program will earn a digital badge and an opportunity to earn a micro-credential, which are an emerging, innovative educational approach awarded for completion of a learning experience. They are shareable on ePortfolio, digital resumé or Linked-In profiles and are increasingly valued in education and industry as a way to document training that learners can bring with them as their careers progress. A second innovation is that we will build on our pipelines to attract students from underrepresented groups through partnerships with internal programs and with other institutions. This T35 program, designed to introduce medical and pharmacy students to careers as clinician scientists, is responsive to a national priority to increase the number of clinician scientists in the U.S. biomedical research workforce.