SHORT-TERM TRAINING IN HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL

描述(由申请人提供)： 这是卫生专业学校学生短期培训的续签申请。这项建议的总体长期目标是激发有才华的兽医学生的研究兴趣，并使他们接触到研究生涯中固有的机会。该项目将为兽医学生提供以下生物医学研究领域的研究培训机会：消化系统疾病、传染病、生物技术/生殖生物学、神经科学/行为学和国际/野生动物医学。该项目旨在向学生介绍活跃的生物医学研究环境，并在以下特定领域对他们进行培训：对已发表数据的批判性评估、假设的发展、研究建议的准备、实验设计、研究伦理、数据的分析和组织以及结果的口头和书面陈述。拟议的项目每年将招收15名学生，学生将在竞争的基础上进行挑选。所有一年级和二年级的兽医学生将有资格提交一份由他/她选择的项目教职员工提供的标准格式的研究计划书。提交的提案将由教员委员会使用预定义的标准进行评估和排名。除了这项建议的科学价值外，还将优先考虑积极招募的少数族裔学生，以及愿意在培训期过后继续进行研究的学生。6月、7月和8月期间的培训将在现有实验室进行，目前正在进行项目和提供资金。每位学员将参加由该项目教员主持的一系列研讨会，提交一份书面报告，并在一年一度的兽医学生研究日上做口头陈述。该计划的成功和影响将通过一种调查方法进行评估，以确定在最初的培训期后积极参与生物医学研究的受训者人数。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a renewal application for short-term training for students in health professional schools. The overall long term objective of this proposal is to stimulate research interests in talented veterinary students and to expose them to opportunities inherent in a research career. The program will provide research training opportunities for veterinary students in the following biomedical research areas: digestive diseases, infectious diseases, biotechnology/reproductive biology, neuroscience/behavior, and international/wild life medicine. This program is specifically designed to introduce students to active biomedical research environments and to train them in following specific areas: critical evaluation of published data, development of hypothesis, preparation of research proposals, experimental designs, research ethics, analysis and organization of data, and oral and written presentations of results. The proposed program will accept 15 students per year, and the students will be selected on a competitive basis. All first and second year veterinary students will be eligible to submit a research proposal using a standard format with input from a program faculty of his/her choice. The submitted proposals will be evaluated and ranked in order of merit by a faculty committee using predefined criteria. Apart from the scientific merit of the proposal, preference will be given to minority students, to be actively recruited, and students who exhibit willingness to continue to conduct research beyond this training period. Training during the months of June, July and August will take place in established laboratories with ongoing projects and funding. Each trainee will attend a seminar series conducted by the program faculty, submit a written report and make a oral presentation at the annual veterinary student research day. The success and impact of the program will be evaluated by using a survey method to determine the number of trainees actively involved in biomedical research following their initial training period.