Excellence in Cardiovascular Sciences Summer Research

该R25-卓越心血管科学（EICS）计划的更新将继续提供 为不同背景的本科生提供短期培训，重点是与以下方面有关的研究培训： 心血管系统，重点是参与转化研究的研究人员团队。这 这种方法利用了维克森林正在进行的广泛的、多学科的心血管研究 医学院（WFSM），在高血压，糖尿病/肥胖，衰老/发育和 心脏、肾脏和血管疾病。高血压与血管研究学院，心血管 科学中心，糖尿病，肥胖和代谢中心，以及 生理学/药理学、心脏病学、公共卫生科学、病理学和生物化学作为 研究导师，其中许多人已经参加了20 - 24年的计划。将向受训者 学生在生物医学科学代表不足，那些来自弱势背景，或那些 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 学生通过动手参与研究项目的生物医学研究; 2）向学生介绍 通过参加心血管杂志俱乐部进行关键的科学评价; 3）提供科学评估的经验， 通过展示研究项目作为海报进行写作和演讲; 4）提供研究接触 教师，包括基础科学和临床; 5）培养长期致力于追求生物医学的职业生涯 科学通过一个经验，体现了兴奋和临床相关的挑战， 调查; 6）通过每两周一次的教师与职业聊天，提供多样化的职业机会 导师; 7）通过提供申请生物医学研究生课程的信息， 研究生院并参加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）提供期刊俱乐部演示文稿的书面评估;和10）提供实践 展示最先进的心血管参数测量设备。新的目标， 更新将包括一个写作讲习班，以发展和磨练写作技能。约80%的前 参加该计划的人谁已经完成了本科学位录取研究生，医学， 教学或工业技术职位。此外，约11%的参与者继续他们的 作为博士生，医学生或技术/后bac学生与WFSM的联系;三个EICS 上一个周期的学生参加了WFSM的学士后课程（PREP）和三个EICS 学生目前是我们研究生课程的博士生。这些统计数字表明， EICS计划的成功及其主要重点是为代表性不足的少数民族提供培训， 促进他们进入研究生课程和他们的职业生涯在生物医学研究预科。

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.