Do young doctors need "a few steps" to grow into scientists? Top Dean: Enlightenment Concept + Bridge Fund is indispensable

In top medical institutions, doctors should do both medical treatment and scientific research. How to find "good seedlings" and continue to support the development of young scientists? It has become a concern for many hospital managers. Yesterday, at the 4th World Top Scientists Forum President Forum (the first World Top Scientist Hospital President Forum), the president of the Massachusetts General Hospital from the United States brought mature experience from the other side of the ocean, which resonated with the managers of many medical institutions: cultivating scientific research concepts as soon as possible, improving the "Bridge Fund" and so on to help young researchers go further and longer.

Early interactive enlightenment of medical students' scientific research concepts

"We're going to expand the base of medical students and start early interactions, and a lot of medical students don't know what research is when they first enter school." Professor David Brown, President of massachusetts, said bluntly. "In the United States, most of the training of medical students is mainly based on clinical training, and early enlightenment of medical research can give more medical students the opportunity to understand, have the direction of career development, and also expand the base of applying for doctoral study after graduation."

Professor David Brown cites the example of a medical student initiating biological research. Young scientists and medical students participate in the process, support each other in the standardized training process, have good teachers, clarify goals, tell good stories, and help young doctors obtain financial support (including charity, etc.), and continuously promote the final "fruits" of scientific research.

Experts say that in the training of doctors and scientists, the role of mentoring and mentoring is crucial, which is conducive to helping students build networks, and young medical students should also actively seek help from mentors to expand their horizons through this exchange and avoid possible burnout. If a circle is used to represent the teaching team, a network can be formed between the different circles, and such a network can overcome obstacles, break separation, and end the situation of fragmentation.

Many research teams can easily confine themselves to their own "little world" and not know what's going on in the lab next door. Experts believe that the training of young scientists in the future should introduce team training concepts from the beginning, such as patient care, patient safety management, etc., to enter the team role to achieve interdisciplinary cooperation, so as to adapt to the needs of future work, "We should encourage young researchers to embrace interdisciplinarity, cross-department, cross-center, to achieve this communication and exchange, because this will bring very important insights." ”

Improve the "Bridge Fund" to help young scientific researchers

In Massachusetts General Hospital, the research hospital from the laboratory to the bedside, the ability to achieve the whole process through institutional innovation, overcome many obstacles and problems. For example, in the process of transformation of young researchers, career planning may have some obstacles, and they need "bridge funds" to rescue the emergency, in addition, they should also make full use of the power of charity to support the scientific research work of young people through strategic layout and public welfare organizations.

In the United States, for example, during clinical training, many young people have the opportunity to access funds such as T32 or F32, and through the government or relevant centers to promote the award sponsorship of young people to continue to move forward. If young researchers grow into researchers, they have the opportunity to receive K-led National Institutes of Health-related grants.

Therefore, it can be seen that in the development of the entire career of American medical researchers, the gap gap needs to be supported by the "Bridge Fund", which is called "the transition from K to R funds" by the insider, and the advantage of the large base is that there are more opportunities to incubate results.

Professor David Brown gave an example: young researchers can use the funds with teacher R to head over until they are on their own, and for more successful researchers, the transition of the "Bridge Fund" is crucial if there is a gap in different projects. In fact, including the Massachusetts General Hospital, non-profit organizations, etc., provide resource sharing and funding, and also play the function of "bridge fund". "We should continue to guide the development of promising young people, let them engage in research early, set goals such as five-year plans, and make good use of charitable projects to support everything from training programs to independent researchers."

How to help young doctors balance clinical and scientific research

How to balance clinical work and scientific research work? In the face of the moderator's questions from Professor Mao Ying, President of Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, David M. Professor Brown said that most doctors in the world are mainly engaged in clinical work, and there are fewer doctors who are willing to do clinical research, so hospitals should give priority to scientists who have research intentions to promote the speed of translation between laboratories and clinics. As the leader of the academy, we should also encourage young scientific researchers to accelerate the transformation of basic science.

Professor Qiao Jie, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, vice chairman of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, and president of the Third Hospital of Beijing Medical College, said that for young doctors, it is very hard to do clinical work itself, if they have the will, they must set up a platform for them to do scientific research space, and medical institutions should innovate institutional mechanisms to support young researchers. Professor Kuang Ming, dean of the School of Medicine of Sun Yat-sen University, introduced that more than 60 scientists have come to the School of Medicine of Sun Yat-sen University to reform the structure of medical education and attract young talents. ”

It is reported that the forum was jointly sponsored by the World Association of Top Scientists and the Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University. The heads of more than 20 top hospitals from four continents, spanning 15 time zones, exchanged experience online and offline, and discussed how hospitals can promote the deep integration of clinical and scientific research, the standardization of smart hospitals, the safe utilization of medical data, hospital medical education and talent training.

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