The Wake Forest School of Medicine Training in Research Affecting Child-Health (TRAC) Program

项目总结/摘要 尽管与儿童健康和发展有关的研究有了巨大的增长，但在儿童健康和发展方面仍然存在着明显的滞后。 这一劳动力的相应增长，特别是对于代表性不足的个人。仍然缺乏 学员进入和留在这些职业。许多儿科医生接触研究的机会有限 在他们的训练中。那些接受过正规研究培训的人--从短期的“靴子训练营” 到硕士课程-或者在实验室工作的人经常被教导如何执行某些研究技能（例如， 临床研究设计），但不知道如何制定一个严格的研究问题。过于专业化的研究 培训以及缺乏资金和资源限制了适应不断变化的环境的能力， 协作。与此相应，儿童健康研究资金滞后，与儿童健康研究资金不成比例。 以成人为重点的研究;只有10%的NIH预算支持儿童健康研究（尽管美国22%的预算支持儿童健康研究）。 人口是儿童）。因此，有必要在广泛的儿科特异性治疗方面对个人进行培训。 在儿童健康和发展的不同领域的研究技能，以优化其匹配 质量（即，使他们的职业选择与他们是谁以及他们的技能和兴趣相一致）， 长期的成功。维克森林大学医学院（WFUSM）研究影响培训 儿童健康（TRAC）计划将提供一个新的儿童健康和发展研究培训机会 在教育水平的范围（本科生，研究生，医学生，居民， 研究员）。TRAC将促进获得持久的儿童健康相关研究技能，重点是 独立性和批判性思维。仿照WFUSM儿科试点项目， 利用现有的世界大学运动联合会培训项目，TRAC将支持新型的、横向的同行指导 通过一个沉浸式的为期八周的儿科特定技能课程在夏天结合 开发和实施合作研究项目与教师导师的指导，将 在下一学年继续进行，以便参与者可以看到他们的项目完成。这将 在次年春季儿科学术协会年会上提交摘要， 提交第一作者的手稿。这种做法将提供一种重要的主人翁感， 成就，以进一步增强参与者的能力，并激发他们进入儿童健康领域的热情。 发展先行者的要求因此，TRAC将利用广泛的教育重点、独特的指导， 新的参与者授权，以优化匹配质量，以帮助参与者识别和发展他们的 优势和兴趣，以促进对儿童健康和发展相关研究的持久兴趣， 加强参与NICHD任务为重点的研究的研究队伍的多样性。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Despite enormous growth in research related to child health and development, there is a significant lag in corresponding growth of this workforce, especially for underrepresented individuals. There remains a dearth of trainees entering into and remaining in these careers. Many pediatricians have limited exposure to research during their training. Those who have received formal research training—ranging from short-term “boot camps” to master’s programs—or who work in a laboratory often are taught how to perform certain research skills (e.g., clinical study design) but do not know how to develop a rigorous research question. Overly specialized research training and lack of funding and resources limit the ability to adapt to a changing environment that is increasingly collaborative. Correspondingly, child health research funding has lagged and is disproportionate to funding for adult-focused research; only 10% of the NIH budget supports child health research (despite that 22% of the US population are children). Thus, there is a need to train individuals in a broad array of pediatric-specific research skills across diverse domains of child health and development in order to optimize their match quality (i.e., aligning their career choice with who they are and their skills and interests) to promote their long-term success. The Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM) Training in Research Affecting Child Health (TRAC) Program will provide a novel child health and development research training opportunity across the spectrum of educational levels (undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, residents, and fellows). TRAC will foster acquisition of lasting child health-related research skills with an emphasis on independence and critical thinking. Modeled after a WFUSM Department of Pediatrics pilot program, and leveraging existing WFUSM training programs, TRAC will support novel, horizontal peer-to-peer mentorship through an immersive eight-week pediatric-specific skills course over the summer combined with the development and implementation of collaborative research projects with guidance from faculty mentors that will continue throughout the following academic year so participants can see their project to completion. This will culminate in abstract submissions to the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting the following spring and submission of a first-authored manuscript. This approach will provide an important sense of ownership and accomplishment to further empower the participants and generate excitement to enter the field of child health and development. TRAC will therefore take advantage of a broad educational focus, unique mentorship, and novel participant empowerment to optimize match quality in order to help participants identify and develop their strengths and interests to promote lasting interest in research related to child health and development and enhance the diversity of the research workforce involved in NICHD mission-focused research.