TRAINING: SOCIAL ASPECTS OF HEALTH RESEARCH AND AGING

超出提供的空间。凯斯西储大学社会学系要求提供资金，以继续培训博士前学生，继续其成功的项目，重点是健康研究和老龄化。在培训方案的每一年中，为4名博士前学生(2名新生和2名继续学生)申请资金。在我们正在进行的培训计划中，我们吸引了在老龄化和健康领域表现出职业兴趣的高素质学生。所有实习生职位都已满，学生在完成学位方面取得了很好的进步。学生的成就体现在国家学位论文奖学金、在国家会议、出版物上发表的论文以及我们的学生被选入专业组织的办公室。毕业后，我们项目的学生已经在学术和应用环境中获得了大学教师和研究科学家的职位。通过聘用专门从事健康和老龄化研究的富有成效的学者，教师队伍得到了进一步加强。我们的培训课程以社会学系为基础，以老龄与健康社会学为主要专业，提供坚实的社会学理论、研究方法、医学社会学和老龄社会学基础，并结合创新的、系统的职业社会化方案。学生学习成为不同资助项目的多学科研究团队的成员。这些人包括社会学系的教员，以及医学院、护理学院和应用社会科学学院的副教员。培训计划的目标是通过精心设计的课程来实现的，课程包括正式的课程和职业社会化的组成部分。学习经历包括研究学徒、研究研讨会系列、涉及研究道德、教学技能培训和教学机会的口语系列。此外，我们的计划通过学生参与专业协会、参加全国会议和准备发表在专业期刊上的论文来促进早期职业发展。该项目的持续资助将为培养受过良好训练的、具有创造性的博士级老龄与健康研究人员提供机会，以推动老龄研究领域的持续发展。表演网站========================================Section End===========================================

EXCEED THE SPACE PROVIDED. The Department of Sociology at Case Western Reserve University requests funding to continue training predoctoral students in its succesful program focusing on health research and aging. Funding is requested for four predoctoral students during each year of the training program (2 new and 2 continuing students). In our ongoing training program, we attract high caliber students with demonstrated career interests in the field of aging and health. All trainee positions have been filled and students have made excellent progress toward degree completion. Student accomplishments are reflected in national dissertation fellowships, paper presentationsat national conferences, publications, and elections of our students to offices within professional organizations. Upon graduation, students from our program have obtained positions as university faculty and research scientists in both academic and applied settings. The faculty has been further strengthened through the hiring of productive scholars who specialize in research in health and aging. Based in Sociology department with primary specialization in sociology of aging and health, our training program offers strong grounding in sociological theory, research methods, medical sociology,and the sociology of aging, combined with an innovative and systematic program of professional socialization. Students learn to work as member of multi-disciplinary research teams on diverse funded projects. These include faculty from the Department of Sociology, and associatedfaculty from the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Applied Social Sciences. Goals of the traing program are implemented by a carefully designed curriculum consisting of formal coursework and professional socialization components. Learning experiences include research apprenticeships, a research proseminar series, a colloquim series involving research ethics, teaching skills training and teaching opportunities. In addition, our program fosters early career developmentthrough student involvement in professional associations, attendance at national meetings and prepration of papers for publication in professional journals. Continued funding of this program will provide opportunities for developing well-trained and creative doctoral-level researchers in aging and health for the ongoing advancement of the field of aging research. PERFORMANCE SITE ========================================Section End===========================================