Training Medical Students in NIDDK Research

摘要 医学教育早期的研究训练医学生进行定量推理， 科学素养，并让他们接触到导师谁把自己的职业生涯中的调查。因此它 加深他们对医学实践发展和改进过程的理解， 并激发他们从事研究工作的兴趣。Vagelos医师学院的课程， 哥伦比亚大学的外科医生们现在要求所有的医学生在毕业前都要做出“学术上的努力”。 毕业典礼扩大了我们的申请者队伍糖尿病的基础和临床研究， 内分泌、肥胖、肾脏、泌尿和消化系统疾病在我们医学院特别强 有60名研究人员拥有当前的RO 1赠款。在过去的四年里，我们每年有70名学生申请 进入T35培训计划。虽然我们最初要求每年支持12名学生，但 更多的合格申请人，通过重新预算我们的非培训资金，我们能够资助51 在这些领域工作的学生（约13人/年）。学生们参加了每周一次的重要专题研讨会 包括职业发展和负责任地开展研究。此外，我们还主办了一份周刊， 专门为NIDDK学员设立的俱乐部，导师们在这里使用他们的出版物讨论他们目前的研究， 高影响力期刊我们是NIDDK资助领域医学生研究的区域中心 招募5名与我们的导师一起工作的学生。结果超出了我们的预期， 自2012年成立以来，我们的14名学生在这短短的时间内决定再奉献一年的时间， 他们中的39人发表了90篇同行评议的论文，18人是第一作者，大多数人是第一作者。 在地方、国家或国际会议上介绍他们的工作。该计划将由一名 招生和录取委员会，将选择学生从申请人池，一个委员会， 跟踪他们的进展，并有一个内部咨询委员会帮助PI/PD运行该计划。最后， 职业发展委员会将帮助学生在他们进步的过程中做出重要的职业决定。 通过医学院以及评估该计划。我们正在与城市开始新的合作 在纽约大学，大多数医学生来自代表性不足的少数民族。我们希望 这项新的努力将为这些学生提供一个进入我们项目的“管道”。

Abstract Research during the early years of medical education trains medical students in quantitative reasoning, and scientific literacy as well as expose them to mentors who have devoted their careers to investigation. It thus sharpens their understanding of the processes by which the practice of medicine develops and improves as well as stimulating their interests in research careers. The curriculum at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University now requires that all medical students produce a “Scholarly Effort” before graduation expanding our pool of applicants. Research in basic and clinical aspects of Diabetes, Endocrinology, Obesity, Kidney, Urology and Digestive Diseases is particularly strong at our medical school with 60 investigators having current RO1 grants. Over the past 4 years, 70 of our students applied each year to enter the T35 training program. While we had initially asked for an annual support of 12 students, there were many more qualified applicants and through re-budgeting of our non-training funds we were able to fund 51 students working in these areas (~13/year). The students attended weekly seminars in important topics including career development and the responsible conduct of research. In addition, we hosted a weekly journal club specific for NIDDK trainees where mentors discussed their current research using their publications in high impact journals. We acted as a regional center for medical student research in NIDDK funded fields recruiting 5 additional students who worked with our mentors. The outcomes have exceeded our expectations, since its inception in 2012, 14 of our students over this short period decided to dedicate an additional year of research to their projects; 39 of them published 90 peer-reviewed papers, 18 as first authors, and most presented their work at local, national or international meetings. The Program will be supervised by a recruitment and admission committee that will choose the students from the applicant pool, a committee that follows their progress and an internal advisory committee that helps the PI/PD in running the program. Finally, a career development committee will aid the students in making important career decision as they progress through medical school as well as evaluate the program. We are starting a new collaboration with the City University of New York where the majority of medical students are from under-represented minorities. We hope this new effort will provide a “pipeline” of such students into our program.