Complementary and Alternative Medicine Short Term Research Rotation - CAMSTRR

描述(由申请者提供)：该提案请求在五年内为五十三、三和四年级的医学生提供支持，这些学生以竞争性方式被选中参加北德克萨斯大学健康科学中心德克萨斯大学骨科医学院为期八周的补充和替代医学(CAM)研究轮换选修课。(UNTHSC/TCOM)这项培训的长期目标是鼓励医学生进入CAM医师科学家的“管道”，通过短期密集接触指导、动手、假设驱动的研究项目、研究教学和发展研究陈述技能。特别招聘工作将针对最聪明和最有积极性的学生，重点是少数族裔的招聘。补充和替代医学短期研究轮换(CAMSTRR)的第一部分是由研究人员介绍的64小时的一般和CAM特定研究方法学课程。课程工作旨在为学生提供负责任的研究行为、研究方案开发、最新研究技术和关键数据评估的基础知识。CAMSTRR计划的第二个组成部分是一个实践、假设驱动的研究项目，由一名资助的教职员工参与，该教职员工以前曾指导过学生，并有时间和愿望担任研究导师。实践研究的经验是为了让医学生接触当代的研究方法和与CAM研究相关的挑战。学生们还将每周与项目中的同龄人会面，讨论研究进展。CAMSTRR方案的第三个组成部分涉及学术活动，方法是在UNYHSC年度研究欣赏日上制作海报演示文稿。普通公众越来越多地使用未记录有效的CAM治疗，强调了关于CAM模式的基于证据的、假设驱动的数据的必要性。该项目的具体目标是确定对进行CAM研究感兴趣的有才华的医学生，并为他们提供短期动手研究培训，旨在增加进入内科科学家队伍的有限数量的经过CAM培训的研究人员。UNTHSC/TCOM在过去四年中增加了80%的研究支出，为拟议的计划提供了稳定的研究支持、设施和研究领导基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests support for fifty, third and fourth year medical students over a period of five years, competitively selected to participate in an elective eight week complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) research rotation at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. (UNTHSC/TCOM) The long term goal of this training is to encourage medical students to enter the CAM physician scientist, "pipeline" through short term intensive exposure to a mentored, hands on, hypothesis driven research project, research didactics and development of research presentation skills. Special recruiting efforts will be directed towards the brightest and most motivated students with emphasis on minority recruitment. The first component of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Short Term Research Rotation (CAMSTRR) is sixty-four hours of general and CAM specific research methodology course work presented by research faculty. Course work is designed to provide students with fundamentals of responsible conduct of research, research protocol development, state of the art research techniques and critical data evaluation. The second CAMSTRR program component is a hands on, hypothesis driven research project with a funded faculty member who has previously mentored students and has the time and desire to serve as a research mentor. The hands on research experience is designed to expose medical students to contemporary research methods and challenges associated with CAM research. Students will also meet weekly with their peers in the program to discuss research progress. The third component of the CAMSTRR program involves scholarly activity through the development of a poster presentation to be made at the UNYHSC's Annual Research Appreciation Day. The increased use of CAM treatments with undocumented efficacies by the general public emphasizes the need for evidence based, hypothesis driven data on CAM modalities. The specific aims of this project are to identify talented medical students interested in conducting CAM research and provide them with short term hands on research training designed to increase the limited numbers of CAM trained investigators entering the physician scientist pipeline. UNTHSC/TCOM's 80% increase in research expenditures over the last four years provides a stable base of research support, facilities and research leadership for the proposed program.