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，以及 科学素养以及让他们接触到将他们的职业生涯奉献给研究的导师。它就是这样 加深他们对医学实践发展和改进的过程的理解 并激发他们对研究事业的兴趣。Vagelos医学院的课程 哥伦比亚大学的外科医生现在要求所有医学生在 毕业扩大了我们的申请者队伍。糖尿病的基础和临床研究， 内分泌学、肥胖症、肾脏病、泌尿外科和消化系统疾病在我们医学院特别强大 目前有60名调查人员获得了RO1拨款。在过去的4年里，我们每年都有70名学生申请 参加T35培训计划。虽然我们最初要求每年资助12名学生，但有 更多的合格申请者，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)。学生们每周都会参加重要主题的研讨会。 包括职业发展和负责任的研究行为。此外，我们还主办了一期周刊 专门针对NIDDK学员的俱乐部，导师使用他们的出版物讨论了他们目前的研究 影响很大的期刊。我们作为NIDDK资助领域的医学生研究区域中心 再招收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名学生在这段短暂的时间里决定再投入一年的时间 对他们的项目进行研究；其中39人发表了90篇同行评议的论文，18篇是第一作者，大多数 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，将从申请者池中选择学生，该委员会 跟踪他们的进展和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进步过程中做出重要的职业决定。 通过医学院，以及评估该计划。我们正在与伦敦金融城展开新的合作 在纽约大学，大多数医科学生来自代表性不足的少数族裔。我们希望 这一新的努力将为这样的学生进入我们的项目提供一条“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.