BRITE Veterinary Student Program

BRITE 兽医学生计划

• 批准号: 7493937
• 负责人: Lisa C. Freeman
• 金额: $ 3.06万
• 依托单位: KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-30 至 2009-09-14
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7493937
• 关键词: Basic Science; Immersion Investigative Technique; Students; Training; experience; programs

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.

描述(由申请者提供)：基础研究沉浸式培训体验(BRITE)兽医学生项目旨在吸引有才华的专业学生进入生物医学研究职业生涯，是一种以强化研究为导向的体验。为此，该计划让精选的学生在兽医教育的形成阶段接触到假设驱动的研究活动、实验室实验设计和执行中涉及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项目为对研究生涯感兴趣的兽医学生提供了灵活、加速、综合和补贴的培训机会。英国兽医专业的学生有一个独特的机会，可以利用专业课程头两年获得的严格的传授基础科学培训，追求与人类和动物健康相关的研究问题。英国学生需要花费一整学年的时间从事与比较医学或公共卫生相关的研究；最好是在专业(DVM)课程的第二到第三年之间进行。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组成部分和课程要求，或“启动”DVM/PHD组合计划。BRITE项目教员由经验丰富、富有成效的高级研究人员和训练有素、积极进取的中级和初级教员组成，拥有活跃的实验室、强大的合作历史和广泛的技术专业知识。潜在的导师包括在堪萨斯州立大学的七个系/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)担任主要学术职务的个人。BRITE项目的教职员工在四个卓越的研究领域拥有重叠的优势：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；基因组学和影响人类和动物健康的昆虫生态学。因此，BRITE学者将能够在分子、细胞、组织和系统层面上研究与比较医学和人类健康相关的问题。预计英国毕业生将走上满足全国在生物医学研究领域对兽医的迫切需求的职业道路。