BRITE Veterinary Student Program

描述（由申请人提供）：基础研究浸入式培训体验（BRITE）兽医学生课程旨在为吸引有才华的专业学生从事生物医学研究工作而设计为密集的研究导向体验。为此，在兽医教育的形成阶段，该计划使选定的学生接触到假设驱动的研究活动，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。最重要的是，BRITE计划为有兴趣从事研究工作的兽医学生提供灵活、快速、综合和补贴的培训机会。BRITE兽医学生有独特的机会利用前两年专业课程中获得的严格教学基础科学培训，从事与人类和动物健康相关的研究问题。BRITE的学生需要花整整一学年的时间进行与比较医学或公共卫生相关的研究；最好是在专业课程（DVM）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项目相关的论文研究部分和课程要求，或“启动”DVM/PhD联合项目。BRITE项目的教师队伍由经验丰富、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，他们拥有活跃的实验室、悠久的合作历史和广泛的技术专长。潜在的导师包括在堪萨斯州立大学七个部门/单位（解剖学与生理学、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）担任初级学术职务的个人。BRITE项目的教师在四个卓越的研究领域有重叠的优势：神经科学；免疫学与宿主-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基因组学和生态学。因此，BRITE学者将能够在分子、细胞、组织和系统水平上研究与比较医学和人类健康相关的问题。BRITE的毕业生将会在职业道路上满足国家在生物医学研究方面对兽医的迫切需求。

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.