Advanced Training in Surgical Oncology

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请由位于波士顿的哈佛附属教学医院布里格姆妇女医院（BWH）提交，并要求资助继续开展癌症外科医生培训计划，即外科肿瘤学高级培训（ATSO）计划。ATSO支持以实验室为基础的癌症研究，为希望从事普通外科或胸部肿瘤学职业的外科住院医师提供支持。该计划主要针对来自BWH的住院医生，但也包括其他哈佛附属住院医生和美国各地的研究生课程。ATSO的领导也会刻意尝试从代表性不足的少数族裔中招募申请者。ATSO的总体目标是通过培训致力于研究和实施基于生物的癌症治疗的外科科学家来显著改善癌症患者的护理。这一目标现在尤为重要，因为外科医生正处于个性化医疗革命的前沿。ATSO项目通过让外科住院医生接触哈佛系统中最好的发现和转化研究，将他们安置在由有成就的科学家和教育家导师领导的实验室中，实现了这一目标。ATSO包括正式的教学课程，让学员熟悉基础研究、转化研究和临床研究的基础知识，包括研究伦理方面的课程。通过其管理委员会的工作，ATSO经常与受训者进行职业发展和进度审查方面的互动，ATSO本身也通过其咨询委员会和受训者本身的正式评价而不断充实。我们完善的项目有着良好的成功记录，在过去的10年里，91%的atso后学员成功地从事学术医学事业。我们期待着通过满足社会对有才能、训练有素和得到良好支持的外科科学家日益增长的需求，进一步改善这一记录。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is submitted by Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), a Harvard- affiliated teaching hospital located in Boston, and requests funding to continue a training program for cancer surgeons, the Advanced Training in Surgical Oncology (ATSO) program. ATSO supports laboratory-based cancer research for surgical residents who wish to pursue a career in general surgical or thoracic oncology. The program is primarily directed toward residents from BWH, but also includes other Harvard-affiliated residencies and postgraduate programs throughout the United States. ATSO leaders also make a deliberate attempt to recruit applicants from underrepresented minorities. The overall goal of ATSO is to dramatically improve care of cancer patients by training surgeon-scientists who will devote their careers to studying and implementing biologically-based cancer treatment. This goal is particularly important now, as surgeons are at the forefront of the revolution in personalized medicine. The ATSO program achieves this aim by exposing surgical residents to the best discovery and translational research available in the Harvard system, placing them in laboratories led by mentors who are accomplished scientists and educators. ATSO includes formal didactic sessions to familiarize trainees with the fundamentals of basic, translational and clinical research, including programs in research ethics. Through the work of its Governance Board, ATSO provides frequent career development and progress review interactions with trainees and the ATSO itself is continually enriched through formal evaluations by its Advisory Board and the trainees themselves. Our well-established program has a solid record of success, with 91% of post-ATSO trainees from the last 10 years successfully pursuing a career in academic medicine. We look forward to improving this record even further by meeting the challenges of an ever-increasing societal need for talented, well-trained and well-supported surgeon-scientists.