Summer Research Training in Aging for Medical Students

拟议的T35计划将为16名医学生提供年度经济支持，让他们在医学院的第一个夏天花9周的时间从事与衰老相关的研究。对于此次续签申请，T35计划的目标仍然是：(1)为学生提供优秀的研究导师和老龄相关研究项目，以激发他们对老龄研究的兴趣；(2)让医科学生参与并对老年人的临床护理原理和老年医学感兴趣；(3)运行一个高质量的计划，确定高素质的学生，确保强大的导师，并优化研究将导致在老龄研究和老年医学领域的陈述和出版物以及未来职业的可能性；以及(4)获得数据，以判断计划的成功，并修改计划，使其更成功。医学生老年暑期研究培训计划将与美国老龄研究联合会(FAR)协调，以便其他医学院的学生以及纽约大学的学生可以参加。项目主任(PD)将由一位熟悉医学生职业指导、老年医学课程开发和NYUSoM强调研究的新课程的副项目主任(APD)协助，由经验丰富的老年病学家和研究员担任。内部咨询委员会(IAB)将就导师和项目的选择向PD提供建议，审查评估指标，并提出计划改进建议。每年，PD和IAB都会挑选经验丰富的研究人员，他们也是成功的导师，并向他们征集针对学生的老龄化研究项目。这些研究人员将在暑假期间与学生密切合作，确保成功实施适合摘要、演示和发表的研究项目。在为期九周的课程中，学生们将参加每周一次的互动教学环节，包括与研究和四个老年病学/老龄化相关的课程。学生还将有机会获得适合于M2‘S升学的临床经验。在他们的经验结束后，学生将正式向其他学生和导师介绍他们的研究项目。他们还将被要求向美国老年学会(AGS)年会和/或其他专业学会提交一份摘要。我们将强烈鼓励学生参加这些会议，展示他们的研究成果。为了跟踪计划的成功情况，学生和导师将在计划结束时接受调查，了解他们的经验，以及如何改进计划。学生还将在医学院的中期和末期以及实习结束时接受调查，以评估他们的职业成就和与老龄化和研究相关的目标。

The proposed T35 program will provide annual financial support to sixteen medical students to spend nine weeks during the first summer of medical school, working on aging-related research. For this renewal application, the T35 program's objectives remain: (1) to provide students excellent research mentors and aging related research projects to stimulate their interest in aging research; (2) to get medical students engaged and interested in principles of clinical care for older adults and in geriatric medicine; (3) to run a high-quality program that identifies highly qualified students, assures strong mentorship, and optimizes the probability that research will lead to presentations and publications and future careers in aging research and geriatric medicine; and (4) to acquire data to judge the success of the program and to modify the program to make it more successful. The Summer Research Training in Aging for Medical Students program will coordinate with the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) so that students from other medical schools, as well as NYUSoM students, can participate. An experienced geriatrician and researcher will be the Program Director (PD) assisted by an Associate Program Director (APD) familiar with career mentoring for medical students, geriatric curriculum development, and the NYUSoM's new curriculum that emphasizes research. An Internal Advisory Board (IAB) will advise the PD on selection of mentors and projects, review evaluation metrics, and suggest program improvements. Each year the PD and the IAB will select experienced researchers who are also successful mentors and solicit from them aging research projects for students. These researchers will work closely with students during their summer experience to ensure the successful implementation of a research project suitable for abstract, presentation and publication. Throughout the nine weeks, students will participate in weekly interactive didactic session related both to research and four to geriatrics/aging. Students will also have the opportunity for clinical experiences appropriate for rising M2's. At the end of their experience, students will formally present their research projects to other students and mentors. They will also be required to submit an abstract for the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) annual meeting, and/or another professional society. Students will be strongly encouraged to attend these meetings to present their research. To track the success of the program, students and mentors will be surveyed at the end of the program regarding their experience, and how the program can be improved. Students will also be surveyed in the middle and end of medical school and at the end of residency, to assess their career achievements and goals related to aging and research.