Clinical & Basic NIDDK Research Training for Medical Students

描述(由申请人提供)： 这项申请是为了延续德克萨斯大学西南医学中心的机构国家研究服务奖，该奖项将允许医学生在NIDDK重点领域的基础和临床生物医学研究方面进行短期培训。 德克萨斯大学西南医学中心的医学生研究有着悠久而丰富的传统。自20世纪50年代末成立以来，S，这些活动涵盖了由州、私人和联邦基金资助的广泛的研究机会。得到支持的研究活动包括基础、临床和应用领域。该项目在过去十年中大幅增加，与德克萨斯大学西南医学中心园区现有设施和教师的出现和发展相称。 这项申请旨在继续在上一次资助期间建立的培训计划，该计划将侧重于医学生接触和发展临床和基础研究方面的正式培训。在前期经验的基础上，我们将继续发展和加强一项短期培训计划，旨在为德克萨斯大学西南医学中心和全美的医学生提供机会。基于我们在识别和配对学生和导师方面积累的经验，我们预计这些经验将进一步丰富德克萨斯大学西南医学中心和美国其他地区学生的研究背景。本申请中描述的项目将聘用西南大学现有的教师和专注于NIDDK感兴趣领域的项目。此外，我们相信，该项目将作为一个焦点，进一步丰富德克萨斯大学西南分校和参与机构的医学生研究活动，并将增强NIDDK资助的研究的现有要素。这样的活动将有助于提高对可用于医学生培训的额外机会的认识(例如，多丽丝·杜克医学生临床研究奖学金、Sarnoff心血管研究奖学金)，并提高寻求通过此类计划接受培训的学生的质量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is to continue an institutional National Research Service Award at UT Southwestern Medical Center that will permit short-term training for medical students in basic and clinical biomedical research in areas of NIDDK focus. Medical student research at UT Southwestern Medical Center has a long and rich tradition. Since its inception in the late 1950's, these activities have encompassed a wide range of research opportunities that have been funded by state, private, and federal funds. Research activities that have been supported have included basic, clinical and applied areas. This program has increased substantially in the past decade, commensurate with the emergence and development of facilities and faculty available on the UT Southwestern Medical Center campus. This application seeks to continue a training program established during the last funding period that will focus on the exposure and development of medical students to formal training in clinical and basic research. Based on experiences gained during the prior period, we will continue to develop and enhance a short-term training program designed to provide opportunities to medical students at UT Southwestern Medical Center and throughout the United States. Building upon the experience that we have amassed in the identification and pairing of students and mentors, we anticipate that these experiences will further serve to enrich the research background of students at UT Southwestern Medical Center and in other parts of the United States. The program described in this application will employ the existing faculty and programs at Southwestern that are focused in areas of NIDDK interest. Furthermore, we believe that this program will serve as a focal point to further enrich medical student research activities at UT Southwestern and participating institutions and will enhance existing element of NIDDK-funded research. Such activities will serve to heighten the awareness of additional opportunities that are available for the training of medical students (e.g. the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowships for Medical Students, Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Fellowships) and to enhance the quality of students seeking training though the auspices of such programs.