Clinical Summer Immersion for Biomedical Engineering PhD Students

描述(由申请人提供)： 这个拟议的临床暑期沉浸项目的目的是为生物医学工程研究生提供丰富的临床经验，帮助他们形成对医学挑战的理解和欣赏。该课程将提供给生物医学工程博士生一年级。在他们的第一个暑假期间，学生们将被安排在康奈尔大学校区的威尔医学院进行为期10周的全职临床实践。每个学生都将被分配给一名临床医生导师。这些学生将跟踪临床医生导师及其合作伙伴的实践，从事特定器官解剖、疾病和疾病诊断和治疗的重点研究，参与与临床实践直接相关的正在进行的研究，并参加生物伦理学讲座和正在进行的临床研讨会。此外，在康奈尔大学伊萨卡工程校区，学生将在前一个春季学期注册并参加必要的介绍性讲座，以匹配学生和临床医生导师，并在第二个秋季学期参加生物医学工程系的总结研讨会。临床暑期沉浸计划的具体目标是：1)向学生介绍基本的医学伦理原则和负责任的研究行为。2)使学生对特定临床实践领域的诊断和治疗程序和技术有基本的了解，如放射学、心脏病学、外科、儿科学、泌尿学或骨科。3)在临床医生导师的指导下，指导学生进行有重点的独立临床研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this proposed clinical summer immersion program is to provide substantial clinical experiences for biomedical engineering graduate students to help shape their understanding and appreciation of challenges in medicine. This program will be offered to the first year Biomedical Engineering PhD students. During their first summer break, the students will be placed at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University campus for 10 weeks of full time immersion in clinical practice. Each student will be assigned to a clinician mentor. The students will shadow the practice of clinician mentors and their partners, engage in focused study of specific organ anatomy, diseases, and diseases' diagnoses and treatments, participate in ongoing research directly related to clinical practice, and attend lectures on bioethics and ongoing clinical seminars. Additionally at the Ithaca Engineering campus of Cornell University, the students will register for and attend introductory lectures in the preceding spring semester necessary for matching students and clinician mentors and participate in a concluding seminar at the Biomedical Engineering Department the following fall semester. The specific aims for the clinical summer immersion program are: 1) To introduce students to the principles underlying medical ethics and the responsible conduct of research. 2) To provide the students a basic understanding of the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and technologies in a specific clinical practice area, such as Radiology, Cardiology, Surgery, Pediatrics, Urology or Orthopedics. 3) To guide students through a focused independent clinical study with a clinician mentor.