Training Programs for Interdisciplinary Systems Research

跨学科系统研究培训计划

• 批准号: 7107317
• 负责人: PETER R BERGETHON
• 金额: $ 21.6万
• 依托单位: BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-20 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7107317
• 关键词: NIH Roadmap Initiative tag; computer assisted instruction; computer human interaction; computer simulation; curriculum; interdisciplinary collaboration; meeting /conference /symposium; neurobiology; postgraduate education; science education; training; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Using a well developed outcome and assessment driven curriculum development module, we will create and implement two linked interdisciplinary courses for graduate students in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine. The central curriculum development module (the SPIRIT engine) will be created using a framework assessment model. This tool will allow outcomes-based short programs to be developed by participating faculty and will provide an assessment driven unified approach to teaching interdisciplinary content and concepts as well as the principles of collaboration and collaborative administration. Two core modules will be developed and implemented in this program using the SPIRIT tool: 1) a core hands-on course in systems thinking and computational modeling and: 2) a case based vertical integrated interdisciplinary course in neurobiology. The first course, "Dynamical Modeling and Systems", is an innovative course that will provide the seminal experience to introduce students to the tools of interdisciplinary research. The course will utilize interactive computer based simulations of complex biomedical systems that require a systematic approach that includes formal modeling and explicit description of dynamical change-in effect "the roadmap" for interdisciplinary thinking. Students will then apply these newly acquired skills to the second course, "Case Studies in Human Neurobiology", in which they will be required to overcome the traditional disciplinary boundaries (i.e, biochemisty, physiology, anatomy, histolgy developmental biology, cell biology, genetics, neuropsychology and social behavior). Taken together, these two courses will nurture the essential and requisite skill of the interdisciplinary scientist. We will then administer the same course to another cohort of graduate students at Boston University School of Medicine with a more cell biological and biochemical background to show that the dynamic modeling and systems approach works equally well to allow students from different traditional disciplinary backgrounds to engage and achieve mastery of a common interdisciplinary skillset. In the third year, through the auspices and guidance of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, we hope to make available and disseminate the courses, and the process of their development, to select neuroscience departments and programs throughout the country.

描述（由申请人提供）： 使用一个开发良好的结果和评估驱动的课程开发模块，我们将创建和实施两个链接的跨学科课程的研究生在解剖学和神经生物学系在波士顿大学医学院。中央课程开发模块（SPIRIT引擎）将使用框架评估模型创建。该工具将允许参与教师开发基于结果的短期课程，并将提供评估驱动的统一方法来教授跨学科内容和概念以及协作和协作管理的原则。两个核心模块将开发和实施在这个程序中使用SPIRIT工具：1）在系统思维和计算建模的核心动手课程和：2）基于案例的神经生物学垂直综合跨学科课程。第一门课程，“动态建模和系统”，是一门创新的课程，将提供开创性的经验，向学生介绍跨学科研究的工具。本课程将利用交互式计算机模拟复杂的生物医学系统，需要一个系统的方法，包括正式的建模和明确的描述动态变化的效果“路线图”的跨学科思维。然后，学生将这些新获得的技能应用到第二门课程，“人类神经生物学案例研究”，在这门课程中，他们将被要求克服传统的学科界限（即生物化学，生理学，解剖学，组织发育生物学，细胞生物学，遗传学，神经心理学和社会行为）。两者结合起来，这两门课程将培养跨学科科学家的基本和必要的技能。然后，我们将在波士顿大学医学院的另一批研究生中开设同样的课程，这些研究生具有更多的细胞生物学和生物化学背景，以表明动态建模和系统方法同样有效，可以让来自不同传统学科背景的学生参与并掌握共同的跨学科技能。在第三年，通过卡内基教学促进基金会的赞助和指导，我们希望提供和传播的课程，以及他们的发展过程，选择神经科学部门和全国各地的计划。