Estapé Estela S, Segarra Barbara, Báez Adriana, Huertas Aracelis, Díaz Clemente, Frontera Walter R
School of Health Professions, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
P R Health Sci J. 2011 Dec;30(4):167-75.
In 2011, research educators face significant challenges. Training programs in Clinical and Translational Research need to develop or enhance their curriculum to comply with new scientific trends and government policies. Curricula must impart the skills and competencies needed to help facilitate the dissemination and transfer of scientific advances at a faster pace than current health policy and practice. Clinical and translational researchers are facing also the need of new paradigms for effective collaboration, and resource sharing while using the best educational models. Both government and public policy makers emphasize addressing the goals of improving health quality and elimination of health disparities. To help achieve this goal, our academic institution is taking an active role and striving to develop an environment that fosters the career development of clinical and translational researchers. Consonant with this vision, in 2002 the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus School of Health Professions and School of Medicine initiated a multidisciplinary post-doctoral Master of Science in Clinical Research focused in training Hispanics who will address minority health and health disparities research. Recently, we proposed a curriculum revision to enhance this commitment in promoting competency-based curricula for clinician-scientists in clinical and translational sciences. The revised program will be a post-doctoral Master of Science in Clinical and Translational Research (MCTR), expanding its outreach by actively engaging in establishing new collaborations and partnerships that will increase our capability to diversify our educational efforts and make significant contributions to help reduce and eliminate the gap in health disparities.
2011年，研究教育工作者面临着重大挑战。临床与转化研究的培训项目需要开发或加强其课程，以顺应新的科学趋势和政府政策。课程必须传授所需的技能和能力，以便比当前的卫生政策和实践更快地促进科学进步的传播和转化。临床与转化研究人员还面临着采用新范式进行有效合作以及在使用最佳教育模式时进行资源共享的需求。政府和公共政策制定者都强调要实现提高健康质量和消除健康差距的目标。为了帮助实现这一目标，我们的学术机构正在发挥积极作用，努力营造一个促进临床与转化研究人员职业发展的环境。与此愿景相一致，2002年，波多黎各大学医学科学园区健康职业学院和医学院发起了一个多学科的临床研究理学硕士博士后项目，专注于培训将从事少数族裔健康和健康差距研究的西班牙裔人士。最近，我们提议修订课程，以加强在为临床与转化科学领域的临床科学家推广基于能力的课程方面的投入。修订后的项目将是临床与转化研究理学硕士博士后项目（MCTR），通过积极建立新的合作关系来扩大其影响力，这将提高我们实现教育工作多样化的能力，并为帮助缩小和消除健康差距做出重大贡献。
