REU Site: Program for Access to Training in Health Informatics (PATHI)

REU 网站：健康信息学培训计划 (PATHI)

• 批准号: 2050895
• 负责人: Kim Unertl
• 金额: $ 40.5万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050895&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Program; Access; Training

The REU Program for Access to Training in Health Informatics (REU-PATHI) will provide 10 undergraduate students with the opportunity to conduct meaningful health informatics research for a period of 10 weeks in the summer. Health informatics connects science, engineering, social sciences, and multiple other fields to identify, design, develop, deploy, and study innovative technology-based solutions for important health-related problems. The REU-PATHI site seeks to broaden participation in health informatics and open new opportunities in this rapidly expanding field. Health Informatics is one of the fastest growing fields today. At least 50% of REU-PATHI students will come from groups that are underrepresented in STEM-C fields, including women, members of minority groups, first generation college students, and students attending institutions with limited access to research experiences. Students will be matched with faculty mentors in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Biomedical Informatics, who will work with students to develop knowledge, skills, and experience in health informatics research. The objectives of the REU-PATHI Site are to engage undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds in meaningful scientific research projects. The undergraduate students will have the opportunity to work in one of three health informatics focus areas: 1) Computing, focusing on computationally-intensive topics such as biomedical data science, predictive analytics, natural language processing, and data privacy; 2) Precision Health, focusing on topics such as genome-phenome studies, multi-omics analysis, phenotype risk scoring, and clinical decision support and 3) Human-Technology Interaction, applying concepts from human-computer interaction, human factors engineering, and sociotechnical systems to topics such as studying workflow and patient safety. Regardless of specific research area, all REU-PATHI students will participate in twice-weekly seminars presented by faculty, professional development workshops, a team-based design challenge, and other professional development activities. However, there are significant challenges in orienting and training diverse undergraduate students to the many career pathways available in this high-impact scientific research field. REU-PATHI addresses this urgent problem by 1) training undergraduate students to conduct cutting-edge health informatics research; 2) introducing students to pathways in health informatics graduate education and research and giving them the skills, knowledge, and confidence to pursue those pathways; 3) involving graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty in mentoring undergraduate students; 4) providing opportunities for REU students to disseminate their research to peers, graduate students, faculty, and the field; and 5) linking high school students in our larger internship program to undergraduate peers to help high school students understand next educational steps.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

REU健康信息学培训计划（REU- pathi）将为10名本科生提供在夏季进行为期10周的有意义的健康信息学研究的机会。健康信息学将科学、工程、社会科学和其他多个领域联系起来，为重要的健康相关问题识别、设计、开发、部署和研究基于创新技术的解决方案。REU-PATHI网站寻求扩大对卫生信息学的参与，并在这一迅速扩大的领域开辟新的机会。健康信息学是当今发展最快的领域之一。至少50%的REU-PATHI学生将来自STEM-C领域中代表性不足的群体，包括女性、少数族裔成员、第一代大学生，以及在研究经历有限的机构就读的学生。学生将与范德比尔特大学医学中心生物医学信息部的教师导师配对，他们将与学生一起发展健康信息学研究的知识、技能和经验。REU-PATHI网站的目标是吸引来自不同背景的本科生参与有意义的科学研究项目。本科学生将有机会在三个健康信息学重点领域之一工作：1)计算，专注于计算密集型主题，如生物医学数据科学，预测分析，自然语言处理和数据隐私；2)精密健康，专注于基因组-表型研究，多组学分析，表型风险评分和临床决策支持等主题；3)人机交互，将人机交互，人因工程和社会技术系统的概念应用于研究工作流程和患者安全等主题。无论具体的研究领域是什么，所有REU-PATHI学生都将参加每周两次的教师研讨会、专业发展研讨会、团队设计挑战和其他专业发展活动。然而，在这个高影响力的科学研究领域，如何引导和培养多样化的本科生，使其适应多种职业道路，这是一个重大挑战。REU-PATHI通过1)培养本科生进行尖端健康信息学研究来解决这一紧迫问题；2)向学生介绍健康信息学研究生教育和研究的途径，并给予他们追求这些途径的技能、知识和信心；3)让研究生、博士后和教师参与指导本科生；4)为REU学生提供机会，将他们的研究成果传播给同龄人、研究生、教师和该领域；5)将我们规模更大的实习项目中的高中生与本科生联系起来，帮助高中生了解接下来的教育步骤。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。