Indiana Medical Scientist/Engineer Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：这是印第安纳州大学医学院医学科学家培训计划的新申请。我们的计划侧重于研究的跨学科领域的培训，印第安纳州大学医学院已经建立了卓越的。我们计划的另一个创新方面是利用我们与普渡大学生物医学工程学院的强大研究和培训合作，包括医生生物医学工程师的培训。在过去的10年里，印第安纳州大学医学院和普渡大学生物医学工程研究项目的显着扩展提供了一个独特的，互动的和支持性的环境，以培养高度积极的学生成为医生科学家。医学院领导层对医生-科学家在参与和将基础科学发现转化为临床方面的关键作用的广泛认可，导致了医学博士。/博士该计划在医学院的所有培训计划中获得最高优先级。此外，该计划得到了医学院基础科学和临床部门的广泛支持。每个基础科学部门和医学课程委员会都仔细审查和修订了各自计划的许多方面，以加强医学和研究培训的整合，并为医学院内的学者提供支持性基础设施。该计划的目标是培养具有最高专业价值的从事医生科学家，他们准备在假设驱动的研究者发起的研究中从事临床研究者的职业。以现有的资源，我们可以持续，每年支持5名学生。我们从国立卫生研究院寻求的支持是：（1）肯定该计划作为MSTP网站上列出的实质性培训计划;（2）每年为2名学生提供财政支持，使我们能够将该计划扩大到每年7名学生。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a new application for a medical scientist training program from Indiana University School of Medicine. Our program is focused on training in interdisciplinary areas of research that Indiana University School of Medicine has established excellence. An additional innovative aspect of our program is the utilization of our strong research and training collaborations with faculty in biomedical engineering at Purdue University to include the training of physician-biomedical engineers. The significant expansion of research programs at both Indiana University School of Medicine and in biomedical engineering at Purdue University over the past 10 years provides a unique, interactive, and supportive environment to train highly motivated students to become physician-scientists. Broad recognition within the leadership of the School of Medicine regarding the critical role of physician-scientists in both participating and translating basic science discovery to the clinic, has resulted in the M.D. / Ph.D. program receiving the highest priority of all training programs within the School of Medicine. Further, this program has broad support from both basic science and clinical departments within the School of Medicine. Each basic science department and the medical curriculum committee have carefully reviewed and revised many aspects of their respective programs to enhance the integration of medical and research training and to provide a supportive infrastructure for this community of Scholars within the School of Medicine. It is the goal of this program to train engaging physician-scientists who have the highest of professional values, and who are poised to pursue careers as clinical investigators in hypothesis-driven, investigator - initiated research. With existing resources, we can consistently, support 5 students per year. The support that we seek from the NIH is: (1) an affirmation of this program as a substantive training program meritorious of listing on the MSTP website; and (2) financial support for 2 students per year to allow us to expand the program to 7 students per year.