R.L. Kirschstein T-35 to Support NHLBI-focused Short-term Predoctoral Training

描述(由申请人提供)： 这项申请是为了在德克萨斯大学西南医学中心设立一个机构国家研究服务奖，以增加医学生在基础和临床生物医学研究方面的短期培训机会，特别是在NHLBI感兴趣的领域。 德克萨斯大学西南医学中心的医学生研究有着悠久而丰富的传统。自20世纪50年代末成立以来，S，这些活动涵盖了由州、私人和联邦基金资助的广泛的研究机会。已得到支持的研究活动包括基础、临床和应用领域。随着德克萨斯大学西南医学中心园区现有设施和教师的出现和发展，该项目在过去十年中大幅增加。 这项申请旨在建立一个培训计划，重点是让医学生在NHLBI支持的领域接受临床和基础研究方面的正规培训和发展。根据德克萨斯大学西南分校现有暑期研究项目的经验，我们设想建立一个有竞争力的项目，为德克萨斯大学西南医学中心和全美的医学生提供机会。基于我们在识别和配对学生和导师方面积累的经验，我们预计这些经验将进一步丰富德克萨斯大学西南医学中心和美国其他地区学生的研究背景。此外，我们相信，该项目将作为一个焦点，进一步丰富德克萨斯大学西南分校和参与机构的医学生研究活动。这样的活动将有助于提高对可用于医学生培训的额外机会的认识(例如，多丽丝·杜克医学生临床研究奖学金、Sarnoff心血管研究奖学金)，并提高寻求通过此类计划接受培训的学生的质量。(摘要结束)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is to establish at UT Southwestern Medical Center an institutional National Research Service Award that will enhance short-term training opportunities for medical students in basic and clinical biomedical research specifically in areas of interest to the NHLBI. Medical student research at UT Southwestern Medical Center has a long and rich tradition. Since its inception in the late 1950's, these activities have encompassed a wide range of research opportunities that have been funded by state, private, and federal funds. Research activities that have been supported have included basic, clinical, and applied areas. This program has increased substantially in the past decade, commesurate with the emergence and development of facilities and faculty available on the UT Southwestern Medical Center campus. This application seeks to establish a training program that will focus on the exposure and development of medical students to formal training in clinical and basic research in areas supported by the NHLBI. Based on experiences derived from the existing summer research program at UT Southwestern, we envisage the establishment of a competitive program that would serve to provide opportunities to medical students at UT Southwestern Medical Center and throughout the United States. Building upon the experience that we have amassed in the identification and pairing of students and mentors, we anticipate that these experiences will further serve to further enrich the research background of students at UT Southwestern Medical Center and in other parts of the United States. In addition, we believe that this program will serve as a focal point to further enrich medical student research activities at UT Southwestern and participating institutions. Such activities will serve to heighten the awareness of additional opportunities that are available for the training of medical students (e.g. the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowships for Medical Students, Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Fellowships) and to enhance the quality of students seeking training though the auspices of such programs. (End of Abstract)