Short-Term Research Training for Optometry Students

印第安纳州大学视光学学院的18位视觉科学家试图提供短期的 视光学院学生的研究训练。长期目标是在这些学生中发展 对研究的持久兴趣将激励他们为MS学习。和博士视力度数 科学，并最终导致在健康相关的视觉研究的职业生涯。学生们被愿景所引导 由NEI或行业资助的健康相关研究领域的科学家。 要求支助10名短期受训人员在实验室进行为期8周的夏季研究 视觉科学家学生通常在验光学校的第一年结束时进入该课程。的 潜在的研究培训领域包括：眼表问题;离子运输的调节， 角膜的代谢活动;包括弱视在内的空间信息的皮层处理;发育 婴儿视觉系统的研究;调节和眼球运动; 与视网膜神经节细胞、青光眼的关系;视网膜功能;接触透镜配戴问题; 眼睛;自适应光学;近视;眼睛的光学像差;和小梁的病理生理学 网状结构 研究生水平的课程使学员了解研究中的道德问题，每周的研讨会提供 学生有机会讨论他们的研究。学员能够继续他们的研究兴趣 在夏季培训后的学年期间，通过参加每周一次的访问学者会议， 并通过参加科学会议，在他们的指导下介绍他们的研究， 导师鼓励学员在以后的夏季继续参加，并将他们的 数据作为MS论文的一部分。℃下

Eighteen vision scientists at the School of Optometry, Indiana University seek to provide short-term research training to students in optometry school. The long-term objective is to develop in these students an abiding interest in research that will motivate them to study for the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in vision science, and ultimately lead to careers in health-related vision research. Students are mentored by vision scientists who are funded by the NEI or by industry in health-related areas of research. Support is requested for ten short-term trainees for eight weeks of summer research in the laboratories of vision scientists. Students enter the program usually at the end of the first year in optometry school. The areas of potential research training include: ocular surface problems; regulation of ion transport and metabolic activity in the cornea; cortical processing of spatial information including amblyopia; development of the visual system in infants; accommodation and eye movements; development of tests of vision in relation to retinal ganglion cells, glaucoma; retinal function; problems of contact lens wear; epidemiology of the eye; adaptive optics; myopia; optical aberrations of the eye; and pathophysiology of the trabecular meshwork. A graduate level course exposes trainees to ethical issues in research, and a weekly seminar provides students the opportunity to discuss their research. Trainees are able to continue their research interest during the academic year after the summer training by participating in weekly meetings of visiting scholars, and by attending scientific meetings at which they present their research under the guidance of their mentors. Trainees are encouraged to continue their participation in later summers and to incorporate their data as part of the thesis for the M.S. degree.