Excellence in Cardiovascular Sciences Summer Research

R25-卓越心血管科学(EICS)计划的续签将继续提供 为不同背景的本科生提供短期培训，重点是与以下相关的研究培训 心血管系统，重点是参与转化性研究的研究团队。这 该方法利用了维克森林正在进行的广泛的多学科心血管研究 医学院(WFSM)，擅长高血压、糖尿病/肥胖症、衰老/发育和 心脏、肾脏和血管疾病。高血压与心血管研究学院 科学中心，糖尿病，肥胖和新陈代谢中心，以及 生理学/药理学、心脏病学、公共卫生科学、病理学和生物化学 研究导师，他们中的许多人已经参加了这个项目20-24年。实习生将是 在生物医学科学方面代表性不足的学生，来自弱势背景的学生，或具有 希望从事生物医学研究项目的残疾人。总体目标仍然是：1)引入 学生通过亲身参与研究项目来了解生物医学研究；2)向学生介绍 通过参加心血管杂志俱乐部进行批判性科学评估；3)提供科学方面的经验 通过以海报的形式介绍研究项目进行写作和演讲；4)提供对研究的接触 基础科学和临床教师；5)培养长期致力于从事生物医学事业 通过一次体验，展示了与临床相关的兴奋和挑战 调查；6)通过两周一次的教职员工与Career的聊天，提供对不同职业机会的接触 导师；7)通过提供申请生物医学研究生项目的信息来促进进入生物医学研究生项目的预科 研究生院和参加GRE考试；8)通过以下方式对学员进行深入的正式评估 他们的研究导师；9)为期刊社演示文稿提供书面评估；10)提供实践 展示最先进的心血管参数测量设备。这是一个新的目标 更新将包括一个写作研讨会，以发展和磨练写作技能。约80%的前者 该计划的参与者完成了他们的本科学位，并被录取为研究生，医学， 教师或工业技术岗位。此外，约11%的参与者继续他们的 与WFSM协会为博士生、医学生或技工/后BAC学生；三个EIC 上一个周期的学生参加了WFSM毕业后课程(PREP)和三个EIC 学生目前是我们研究生项目的博士生。这些统计数据表明， EICS方案的成功及其主要重点是向代表性不足的少数群体提供培训 促进他们进入研究生课程和他们在生物医学研究方面的职业生涯。

The renewal of this R25—Excellence in Cardiovascular Sciences (EICS) program--will continue to provide short-term training for undergraduate students of diverse backgrounds, focusing on research training related to the cardiovascular system with an emphasis on teams of investigators involved in translational research. This approach takes advantage of the broad, multidisciplinary cardiovascular research ongoing at Wake Forest School of Medicine (WFSM), with areas of expertise in hypertension, diabetes/obesity, aging/development and cardiac, renal and vascular diseases. Faculty from Hypertension & Vascular Research, the Cardiovascular Sciences Center, the Center for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, and the Departments of Physiology/Pharmacology, Cardiology, Public Health Science, Pathology and Biochemistry participate as Research Mentors, many of whom have participated in the program for 20-24 years. The trainees will be students under-represented in biomedical sciences, those from disadvantaged backgrounds, or those with disabilities wishing to pursue a biomedical research project. The overall objectives remain to 1) introduce students to biomedical research through hands-on participation in a research project; 2) introduce students to critical scientific evaluation by participating in a cardiovascular journal club; 3) provide experience in scientific writing and speaking through presentation of the research project as a poster; 4) provide exposure to research faculty, both basic science and clinical; 5) foster a long-term commitment to pursue a career in the biomedical sciences through an experience that exemplifies the excitement and challenges of clinically relevant investigation; 6) provide exposure to diverse career opportunities by bi-weekly faculty chats with Career Mentors; 7) facilitate matriculation into biomedical graduate programs by providing information on applying to graduate school and taking the GRE examination; 8) provide an in-depth formal evaluation of the mentees by their Research Mentors; 9) provide a written evaluation of journal club presentations; and 10) provide hands-on demonstration of state-of-the-art devices to measure cardiovascular parameters. A new objective for the renewal will include a writing workshop, to develop and hone writing skills. Approximately 80% of the former participants in the program who have finished their undergraduate degrees matriculated to graduate, medical, teaching or industrial technical positions. Furthermore, ~11% of the participants have continued their association with WFSM as PhD students, medical students or technical/post-bac students; three EICS students from the last cycle participated in the WFSM post-baccalaureate program (PREP) and three EICS students are currently PhD students in our graduate program. These statistics demonstrate the continued success of the EICS program and its primary focus of providing training to under-represented minorities to facilitate their matriculation into post-graduate programs and their careers in biomedical research.