BRITE Veterinary Student Program

描述（由申请人提供）：基础研究沉浸式培训体验（BRITE）兽医学生计划旨在为吸引有才华的专业学生进入生物医学研究职业的密集研究导向的经验。为此，该计划将选择学生暴露于假设驱动的研究活动，涉及实验室实验设计和执行的方法以及与生物医学研究相关的伦理问题，在他们的兽医教育的形成阶段。最重要的是，BRITE计划为对研究职业感兴趣的兽医学生提供灵活，加速，综合和补贴的培训机会。BRITE兽医学生有一个独特的机会，利用在专业课程的前两年获得的严格的教学基础科学培训，以追求与人类和动物健康相关的研究问题。BRITE学生预计将投入整个学年的研究与比较医学或公共卫生;最佳情况下，这发生在专业（DVM）课程的第二年和第三年之间。深入指导的生物医学研究经验可用于获得兽医生物医学科学硕士学位，完成与DVM/MPH计划相关的论文研究部分和课程要求，或“启动”合并的DVM/博士课程。BRITE项目教师由成熟、富有成效的高级研究人员和训练有素、积极进取的职业中期和初级教师组成，拥有活跃的实验室、悠久的合作历史和广泛的技术专业知识。潜在的导师库包括在堪萨斯州立大学的七个部门/单位（解剖学和生理学，生物化学，生物学，诊断医学/病理生物学，昆虫学，人类营养学和兽医临床科学）的主要学术任命的个人。BRITE计划教师在四个卓越的研究领域具有重叠的优势：神经科学;免疫学和宿主-病原体-环境相互作用;健康和疾病中的上皮功能;影响人类和动物健康的昆虫的基因组学和生态学。因此，BRITE学者将能够在分子，细胞，有机体和系统水平上研究与比较医学和人类健康相关的问题。BRITE毕业生有望追求职业道路，以解决迫切的国家需要兽医在生物医学研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Basic Research Immersion Training Experience (BRITE) veterinary student program is designed as an intensive research oriented experience directed towards attracting talented professional students into biomedical research careers. To this end, the program exposes select students to hypothesis-driven research activities, methodologies involved in design and execution of laboratory experiments and ethical issues pertinent to biomedical research, at a formative stage of their veterinary education. Most important, the BRITE program provides veterinary students interested in a research career with a flexible, accelerated, integrated and subsidized training opportunity. BRITE veterinary students are given a unique opportunity to utilize the rigorous didactic basic science training obtained during the first two years of the professional curriculum in pursuit of a research problem relevant to human and animal health. BRITE students are expected to devote an entire academic year to research relevant to comparative medicine or public health; optimally, this occurs between the second and third year of the professional (DVM) curriculum. The in-depth mentored biomedical research experience may be used to earn an MS in Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, to complete the thesis research component and course requirements associated the DVM/MPH program, or to "jump-start" a combined DVM/PhD program. The BRITE program faculty is comprised of established, productive senior investigators and well-trained, motivated mid-career and junior faculty, with active laboratories, a strong history of collaboration, and wide-ranging technical expertise. The pool of potential mentors includes individuals with primary academic appointments in seven departments/units at Kansas State University (Anatomy & Physiology, Biochemistry, Biology, Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Entomology, Human Nutrition, and Veterinary Clinical Sciences). The BRITE program faculty have overlapping strength in four areas of research excellence: neuroscience; immunology & host-pathogen-environment interactions; epithelial function in health and disease; genomics & ecology of insects affecting human and animal health. Thus, BRITE scholars will be able to investigate problems relevant to comparative medicine and human health at the molecular, cellular, organismal and systems levels. BRITE graduates are expected to pursue career paths that address the pressing national need for veterinarians in biomedical research.