Medical Scientist Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：本申请申请为明尼苏达大学的医学博士/博士综合培训计划申请医学科学家继续培训计划(MSTP)支持。该计划仍然致力于一个共同的目标：培养下一代内科科学家-领导者，以推动技术和临床应用达到与世界上最好的生物医学研究相一致的卓越研究水平。 MSTP旨在提供在7-8年内获得医学博士学位的指导。该计划采用传统的培训顺序，即医学院(2年制)+GT；研究生院(3-5年)+GT；医学院(1.5-2年)。然而，令人兴奋的新课程变化正在促进这两个学位组成部分之间的过渡。其核心是一门名为“内科科学家门诊”的新课程。本课程允许学生与他们选择的内科科学家并肩工作，从而使研究生培训的后期阶段的学生接触到将他们的基本科学技能与具体的临床问题相结合的喜悦。在121名教员的实验室里，研究机会比比皆是。卓越的领域包括生物化学、生物医学工程、癌症生物学、细胞生物学、化学、发育生物学、流行病学、遗传学、免疫学、微生物学、神经科学和药理学。 研究机会得到了过去几年实验室设施的重大扩张的支持，从而形成了仪器和实验室空间的基础设施，加强了整个医学院的研究。 明尼苏达大学MSTP的学生可以探索当代生物医学研究中的一系列全面的科学挑战，并从所有主要医学子专业中进行选择，以满足他们的临床重点。我们的毕业生过去和现在都在以他们的MSTP教育为跳板，在美国各地的主要医学院开展生物医学研究，从而完成这一医学研究和医疗保健关键项目的国家使命。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests continuing Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) support for the Combined MD/PhD Training Program at the University of Minnesota. The Program remains committed to a single common goal: to train the next generation of physician scientist-leaders equipped to push technology and clinical application to a level of investigative excellence consonant with the best biomedical research in the world. The MSTP is designed to provide instruction leading to the MD and PhD degrees in 7-8 years. The Program employs the traditional training sequence of medical school (2 years) > graduate school (3-5 years) > medical school (1.5-2 years). However, exciting new curricular changes are facilitating the transition between the two degree components. The centerpiece is a new course entitled "Ambulatory Clinics for the Physician Scientist". This course allows students to work side-by-side with the physician scientist of their choosing, thereby exposing students in the latter phases of graduate training to the joy of interfacing their basic science skills to specific clinical problems. Research opportunities abound in the laboratories of the 121 faculty preceptors. Areas of excellence include Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Chemistry, Developmental Biology, Epidemiology, Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology, Neuroscience and Pharmacology. The research opportunities are supported by a major expansion of laboratory facilities during the last several years, resulting in an infrastructure of instrumentation and laboratory space that has enhanced research across the entire medical school. Students in the University of Minnesota MSTP can explore a comprehensive number of scientific challenges in contemporary biomedical research, coupled with a choice from all the major medical subspecialties for their clinical focus. Our graduates have in the past and are currently using their MSTP education as a springboard to conduct biomedical research in major medical schools across the United States, thereby fulfilling the national mission of this critical program in medical research and health care.