Making a Digestive Sciences Career Palatable

让消化科学职业变得愉快

• 批准号: 7080384
• 负责人: ANSON W LOWE
• 金额: $ 10.48万
• 依托单位: STANFORD UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-05-15 至 2008-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7080384
• 关键词: curriculum; digestive disorder; health science research potential; medical education

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The major goal of this proposal is to attract medical students, undergraduate and graduate engineering and other students of non-medical disciplines into research careers in digestive disease. Although exciting advances have been accomplished in several digestive diseases, including cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, peptic ulcer disease and chronic hepatitis, significant gains still need to be made for many of these diseases. Our hypothesis is that the development of a curriculum that showcases and brings excitement for digestive diseases to students with medical and non-medical backgrounds, will encourage such students to engage in digestive disease research. Establishment of such a curriculum will also have an important positive impact on the rebuilding of our shrinking reserve of biomedical scientists who are engaged in digestive disease research, and will potentially help foster new approaches to study digestive disease. Our specific aims are to: (i) establish a stimulating seminar series aimed at, but not exclusive to, engineering graduate and undergraduate students. These seminars will focus on important digestive diseases, new technologies including endoscopic and genomic, clinical research design, transplantation biology, among other timely topics, and (ii) create an environment that promotes the participation of the seminar course enrollees in research experiences related to digestive disease research. As such, student participants will be encouraged to actively engage in research projects that are ongoing in our Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and in our inter-departmental Digestive Disease Research Center. We anticipate that during the 5-year funding period, the program we propose to develop will become self-sustaining, and will attract talented students who may otherwise choose non-digestive disease-related or non-investigative research careers.

描述(由申请人提供)： 这项建议的主要目标是吸引医学生、本科生和工程学研究生以及其他非医学学科的学生投身消化系统疾病的研究事业。尽管在包括癌症、炎症性肠病、消化性溃疡疾病和慢性肝炎在内的几种消化系统疾病方面取得了令人振奋的进展，但这些疾病中的许多仍需要取得重大进展。我们的假设是，开发一门展示消化系统疾病并为具有医学和非医学背景的学生带来兴奋的课程，将鼓励这些学生从事消化系统疾病的研究。设立这样的课程也将对重建我们日益减少的从事消化系统疾病研究的生物医学科学家储备产生重要的积极影响，并可能有助于促进研究消化系统疾病的新方法。我们的具体目标是：(I)建立一个激励性的研讨会系列，目标是但不只是工程专业的毕业生和本科生。这些研讨会将侧重于重要的消化疾病、包括内窥镜和基因组、临床研究设计、移植生物学等在内的新技术，以及(Ii)创造一种环境，促进研讨会课程参与者参与与消化疾病研究有关的研究经验。因此，学生参与者将被鼓励积极参与我们的胃肠病和肝病部门以及我们的跨部门消化疾病研究中心正在进行的研究项目。我们预计，在5年的资助期内，我们计划开发的项目将变得自给自足，并将吸引有才华的学生，否则他们可能会选择非消化系统疾病相关或非调查性研究职业。