Short term training: Infectious Diseases and Tropical Diseases in Peru

描述(申请人提供)：尽管传染病在世界各地的发展中国家给人类造成了损失，但在热带疾病诊断、预防和控制方面接受过培训的临床和研究人员仍然严重短缺。这项拟议的T35培训补助金的续期将使约翰霍普金斯大学能够继续为美国医学生、研究生院候选人和博士后实习生提供热带疾病研究的机会。此外，资金将使我们能够继续利用过去20年在秘鲁建立的大量海外现场研究和培训基础设施。我们成功地利用这一系统培训了205多名学生--171名是临时培训，另有34名是在这一培训补助金的资助下进行的。我们建议扩大我们的计划，在6个月或更长的时间内再培训30名学生。这项研究将继续作为一个独立的研究项目进行，是招募优秀学生参加热带传染病临床和实验室综合研究的理想机制，这些研究可以转化为实地环境。与英国使用的家教制度类似，我们的学生在逗留期间都会与一名经验丰富的调查员配对。在调查过程的所有步骤中，学生经常与导师进行咨询。在4到6周的实验轮换后，学生们形成他们个人的研究问题。学生进行完整的科学调查，从最初的和持续的伦理考虑，到最后的数据分析。在分析了他们项目的发现后，或者如果时间限制，来自另一个项目的数据，每个学生都要写一篇论文并提交一篇论文发表。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite the toll that infectious diseases take on humans in developing countries around the world, there remains a substantial shortage of both clinically and research-oriented people trained in tropical disease diagnosis, prevention, and control. Renewal of this proposed T35 training grant would enable Johns Hopkins University to continue providing U.S. medical students, candidates for graduate school and post-doctoral trainees opportunities in tropical disease research. Furthermore, funding will allow us to continue taking advantage of the substantial overseas site research-training infrastructure built over the last 20 years in Peru. We have successfully used this system to train over 205 students -171 both on an ad hoc basis and with the assistance of other grants, and 34 under the resources of this training grant. We propose to expand our program to train 30 additional students for periods of 6 months or longer. This research would continue to be performed as an independent study project and is an ideal mechanism for recruiting outstanding students into combined clinical and laboratory based research in tropical infectious diseases that can be translated to the field setting. Similar to the tutor system used in Britain, our students are each paired with an experienced investigator for the duration of their stay. Students consult with tutors frequently through all steps of the investigative process. After a 4 to 6 week lab rotation, students formulate their individual research questions. Students carry out complete scientific investigations from the initial and ongoing ethical considerations, to finally, the data analysis. After analyzing the findings of their project, or if time constraints dictate, data from another project, each student will write and submit a paper for publication.