Postdoctoral Training Program in Critical Care

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份危重病研究博士后培训计划更新的竞争性申请。该计划成功地实施了以项目为导向的培训方法。这种方法采用分布式研究模式，鼓励每个学员使用几个已建立的实验室作为资源，为他/她的项目中出现的问题开发机械解决方案。这种分散的研究模式和培训方法至少在两个方面促进了科学多样性。首先，受训者掌握了广泛的实验策略，这将成为他们后来过渡到项目领导者的基础。第二，尽管受训者是由个人导师和在临床研究和基础科学方面具有卓越成就的知名研究人员组成的核心教员进行培训、咨询和评估的，但受训者被鼓励接触任何与受训者兴趣一致的华盛顿大学教员，以作为研究项目导师，专注于危重病护理的研究问题。后一种策略使培训机构能够专注于危重病研究人员面临的跨学科挑战，并鼓励大学社区的其他成员——学员和已建立的研究人员——将他们的专业知识用于解决危重病生物学中的各种问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a competing application for renewal of a postdoctoral training program in critical care research. This program has successfully implemented a project-oriented approach to training. This approach embraces a distributed model of research that encourages each trainee to use several established laboratories as resources which are brought to develop mechanistic solutions to questions which emerge from his/her project(s). This decentralized model of research and approach to training promotes scientific diversity in at least two ways. First, trainees master a broad spectrum of experimental strategies which will form the basis for their later transition to project leaders. Second, although trainees are trained, counseled and evaluated by a personal mentor and by core faculty of established investigators representing excellence in clinical research and basic science, trainees are encouraged to approach any member of the Washington University faculty whose interests converge with the trainee's interests to focus upon a research problem in critical care to serve as a research project mentor. This latter strategy has allowed the training institution to focus upon interdisciplinary challenges facing critical care investigators and encourage other members of the university community--trainees and established investigators alike--to lend their expertise to the solution of diverse problems in the biology of critical illness.