Short-Term Research Training for AuD Students

描述(由申请人提供)：男童镇国立研究医院(BTNRH)为Au.D.学生提供的短期研究培训计划的目标是让每年6名Au.D.学生有机会在三个月的时间内进行全日制(每周40小时)听力科学的临床或翻译研究经验。每个受训者将参与一个具体的研究项目，在BTNRH NIH资助的10个实验室之一工作，目前正在进行与听力学直接相关的临床和转化性研究。受训者将与BTNRH的教师导师密切合作，这些导师在面向临床的多学科研究环境中拥有丰富的工作经验。在参与研究项目之前，学员将完成花旗与以人类为研究对象的研究相关的培训课程。此外，他们将参加一个关于研究中负责任行为的课程，该课程将在他们在BTNRH实习期间举行。受训人员将参加学术讨论会和期刊小组，除了他们主要感兴趣的实验室外，还将接触到BTNRH的各种实验室，包括参与基础研究的实验室。他们将受益于现有的支助服务，包括专门用于实验室计算和学科招聘的核心，以及在将培训博士后研究生的许多实验室工作的博士后研究员的存在。博士后研究员中的许多人将继续从事学术生涯，他们将受益于与教师导师一起参与这些学生的培训。在实施拟议的计划时，BTNRH的教职员工将受益于他们为来自少数族裔的本科生提供短期和长期临床培训、短期研究培训的经验，以及作为教师参与内布拉斯加州大学林肯分校的Au.D.和Ph.D.项目。短期研究培训计划的受训者将从全国范围内的Au.D.计划中招募。到目前为止，已有19个项目提供了意向书。这项计划将通过改善对将在医疗中心、诊所和学校为公众提供服务的听力专家的培训，使公共卫生受益。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the Short-Term Research Training Program for Au.D. Students at the Boys Town National Research Hospital (BTNRH) is to give six Au.D. students per year the opportunity to pursue a full-time (40 hours per week) hands-on clinical or translational research experience in the hearing sciences over a three-month period. Each trainee will be involved in the conduct of a specific research project, working in one of 10 BTNRH NIH-funded laboratories currently carrying out clinical and translational research directly related to audiology. Trainees will work closely with BTNRH faculty mentors who have extensive experience working in a clinically oriented, multidisciplinary research environment. Prior to participation in a research project, trainees will complete the CITI training course related to research involving humans as research subjects. In addition, they will participate in a course on responsible conduct in research which will meet over the course of their internship at BTNRH. Trainees will attend colloquia and journal groups, and will be exposed to a wide range of BTNRH laboratories, in addition to the one in which they have primary interest, including laboratories involved in basic research. They will benefit from available support services, including cores devoted to laboratory computing and subject recruitment, and from the presence of postdoctoral fellows who work in many of the laboratories in which predoctoral Au.D. students will be trained. Postdoctoral fellows, many of whom will go on to academic careers, will benefit by participating with faculty mentors in the training of these students. In conducting the proposed program, the BTNRH faculty will benefit from their experience in providing short- and long-term clinical training, short-term research training for undergraduates from underrepresented minorities, and from participation as faculty in the Au.D. and Ph.D. programs at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Trainees in the Short-Term Research Training Program will be recruited from Au.D. programs nationally. To date, 19 programs have provided letters of interest. This program will benefit public health by improving the training of audiologists who will be providing services to the public in medical centers, clinics, and schools.