Medical Scientist Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：马里兰大学(UM)的医学博士项目成立于1982年，多年来培养了一批成功的内科科学家。UM计划的使命是为有抱负的杰出医学科学家提供卓越的科学和医学培训，使他们在生物医学研究和临床医学领域拥有富有成效的职业生涯。医学博士/博士项目的重点目标是：(1)招收具有强大科学背景并致力于临床护理的学生；(2)提供严格而灵活的计划，其中包括独立研究和临床实践方面的培训；(3)提供指导，使学生制定长期职业计划，并获得竞争性研究生培训所需的科学和临床资格证书。该培训计划以医学院和研究生院的课程为基础，包括一系列活动和课程，以促进基础科学和临床科学的融合。这些医学/博士专业活动包括：(1)研究生课程方向；(2)分子到医学杂志俱乐部；(3)医学科学家研讨会；(4)研究生期间的纵向临床轮换；(5)医学院的医学科学家研究选修课；(6)医学/博士课程务虚会；(7)医学/博士捐赠讲座。因此，我们的计划确保了医学博士研究生不仅仅是经过博士培养的医学博士研究生。在过去的七年里，密歇根大学医学博士/博士项目在提高其质量方面取得了重大进展，包括：(1)机构支持增加了400%；(2)申请者人数增加了40%；(3)代表不足的少数族裔人口增加到计划的24%；(4)减少了临床要求，以增强灵活性。与此同时，研究生课程进行了彻底重组，医学院在生物医学研究事业中取得了显着增长。这些改进的成功体现在入学学生的质量、我们研究人员的生产力以及我们高年级学生令人印象深刻的常驻职位名单上。因此，这一专业的毕业生已经做好了充分的准备，能够抓住机遇，迎接人类疾病研究领域的挑战。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The MD/PhD Program at the University of Maryland (UM) was established in 1982 and over the years has produced a cohort of successful physician scientists. The mission of the UM program is to provide outstanding aspiring medical scientists with superior scientific and medical training so that they will have productive careers in biomedical research and clinical medicine. The focused goals of the MD/PhD Program are: (1) to recruit students with strong scientific backgrounds and a commitment to clinical care; (2) to provide a rigorous, yet flexible, program that includes training in independent research and clinical practice; (3) to provide guidance so that students formulate long-term career plans and acquire the scientific and clinical credentials necessary for competitive postgraduate training. The training plan builds on the curricula of the medical and graduate schools and includes a range of activities and courses that facilitate the integration of the basic and clinical sciences. These MD/PhD-specific activities include: (1) Graduate program orientations; (2) Molecules to Medicine journal club; (3) Physician Scientist Seminars; (4) Longitudinal Clinical Rotation during graduate school; (5) Physician Scientist Research Elective in Medical School; (6) MD/PhD Program Retreat; (7) MD/PhD endowed lecture. Thus our program ensures the MD/PhD students are not merely MD students with PhD training. Over the past seven years the UM MD/PhD Program has made major strides that improve its quality including: (1) a 400% increase in institutional support; (2) a 40% increase in depth of applicant pool; (3) increase in underrepresented minority population to 24% of program; (4) reduction in clinical requirements to enhance flexibility. At the same time the graduate programs have been completely reorganized and the school of medicine has seen remarkable growth in the biomedical research enterprise. The success of these improvements is manifest in the quality of matriculating students, the productivity of our researchers, and the impressive list of residency positions of our seniors. Thus graduates of this program are superbly prepared to capitalize on the opportunities and meet the challenges in the investigation of human diseases.