Research Training in Heart, Lung, Blood & Sleep Diseases

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的项目为选定的医学院学生提供短期研究培训，为他们提供心血管、肺、血液学和睡眠研究方面的就业机会，并使他们接触到生物医学研究领域的兴奋、挑战和回报。该计划每年为30名有才华的医学生提供研究培训，他们将连续2-4个月的时间与领导国家认可的心脏，肺，血液或睡眠障碍研究项目的杰出研究人员一起进行指导研究经验。我们的目标是为学生提供一个比传统医学院课程更深入的研究领域的机会，并通过结构良好、有指导的研究经验帮助学生意识到生物医学研究的机会，为未来参与研究奠定基础。该项目是凯斯医学与健康学院（Case School of Medicine and Health）研究和奖学金新课程基石的一部分。研究经验从基本的分子、细胞和器官病理生物学到转化研究、临床研究和基于人群的心脏、肺、血液和睡眠生物学和疾病研究。受训者是根据其研究计划的质量和积极研究经验的潜力进行竞争性审查的申请来选择的。所有被选中的学生将在良好的信誉，并将完成至少一年。学生将成为指导教师研究计划的组成部分，与实验室和研究界的其他成员互动，并参加实验室会议，期刊俱乐部和相关研讨会。此外，凯斯学院教师之间的互动环境将有助于确保学生与其他主要培训师进行互动。少数族裔被专门招募加入这个项目。我们的评估系统使我们能够不断改进我们的培训计划，我们的数据库跟踪这些学员的职业生涯。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our program offers short-term research training to selected medical school students to provide them with career opportunities in cardiovascular, pulmonary, hematologic, and sleep research and to expose them to the excitement, challenges and rewards of a career in biomedical research. This program provides research training to 30 talented medical students per year who will spend 2-4 consecutive full-time months pursuing mentored research experiences with outstanding investigators who lead nationally recognized research programs in heart, lung, blood or sleep disorders. Our objective is to provide students with an opportunity to pursue an area of research in greater depth than can be accomplished within the traditional medical school curriculum and to help students become aware of the opportunities in biomedical research through well structured, mentored research experiences that lay the foundation for future involvement in research. This program is part of the new curriculum's cornerstone in research and scholarship at Case School of Medicine and Health. The research experiences range from fundamental molecular, cellular, and organ pathobiology to translational studies, clinical research, and population-based research in heart, lung, blood and sleep biology and disorders. Trainees are selected based on applications that are competitively reviewed for the quality of their research proposal and the potential for a positive research experience. All selected students will be in good standing and will have completed at least one year. The students will become an integral part of the faculty advisor's research program, interact with the other members of the laboratory and research community, and attend laboratory meetings, journal clubs, and relevant seminars. In addition, the interactive environment amongst the faculty at Case will help to assure that students will interact with other key trainers. Underrepresented minorities are specifically recruited to join this program. Our evaluation system allows us to continuously improve our training program and our database tracks the careers of these trainees.