Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Acad Med. 2013 Sep;88(9):1332-9. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31829e7bce.
Although the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has made extensive investments in educational programs related to clinical and translational science (CTS), there has been no systematic investigation of the number and characteristics of PhD programs providing training to future leaders in CTS. The authors undertook to determine the number of institutions that, having had received NIH-funded Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs), currently had or were developing PhD programs in CTS; to examine differences between programs developed before and after CTSA funding; and to provide detailed characteristics of new programs.
In 2012, CTS program leaders at the 60 CTSA-funded institutions completed a cross-sectional survey focusing on four key domains related to PhD programs in CTS: program development and oversight; students; curriculum and research; and milestones.
Twenty-two institutions had fully developed PhD programs in CTS, and 268 students were earning PhDs in this new field; 13 institutions were planning PhD programs. New programs were more likely to have fully developed PhD competencies and more likely to include students in medical school, students working only on their PhD, students working on a first doctoral degree, and students working in T1 translational research. They were less likely to include physicians and students working in clinical or T2 research.
Although CTS PhD programs have similarities, they also vary in their characteristics and management of students. This may be due to diversity in translational science itself or to the relative infancy of CTS as a discipline.
尽管美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）在与临床和转化科学（CTS）相关的教育计划上投入了大量资金，但目前仍未有系统地调查提供 CTS 未来领导者培训的博士课程的数量和特点。作者着手确定已经获得 NIH 临床和转化科学奖（CTSA）资助的机构数量，目前或正在开发 CTS 博士课程；研究 CTSA 资助前后项目之间的差异；并提供新计划的详细特征。
2012 年，60 家 CTSA 资助机构的 CTS 项目负责人完成了一项横断面调查，重点关注与 CTS 博士课程相关的四个关键领域：课程开发和监督；学生；课程和研究；以及里程碑。
22 家机构已全面开发 CTS 博士课程，有 268 名学生在这一新领域攻读博士学位；13 家机构正在规划博士课程。新计划更有可能全面发展博士能力，更有可能让医学生、只攻读博士学位的学生、攻读第一个博士学位的学生和从事 T1 转化研究的学生参与其中。他们不太可能包括从事临床或 T2 研究的医生和学生。
尽管 CTS 博士课程有相似之处，但它们在学生管理和特征方面也存在差异。这可能是由于转化科学本身的多样性，或者是 CTS 作为一门学科的相对不成熟。
