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计划的目标是为生物医学工程研究生提供大量的临床经验，以帮助他们理解和欣赏医学挑战。该计划将提供给第一年的生物医学工程博士生。在他们的第一个暑假，学生将被放置在康奈尔大学校园的威尔医学院的10个星期的全职沉浸在临床实践。每个学生将被分配到一个临床导师。学生将跟随临床医生导师及其合作伙伴的实践，专注于特定器官解剖学，疾病以及疾病的诊断和治疗，参与与临床实践直接相关的持续研究，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，学生将注册并参加前一个春季学期的介绍性讲座，以匹配学生和临床医生导师，并参加下一个秋季学期生物医学工程系的总结研讨会。临床暑期沉浸课程的具体目标是：1）向学生介绍医学伦理学的基本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，如放射科，心脏科，外科，儿科，泌尿科或骨科。3)指导学生通过一个有重点的独立临床研究与临床导师。

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.