Biomedical Explorations: Bench to Bedside

描述（由申请人提供）：当前佛罗里达和NIH在转化研究（NIH医学研究路线图）的举措要求今天的学生理解，并在学术上准备，研究，临床和技术职位越来越多地提供从基础研究到适销药品，诊断和设备的连续体。然而，很少有高中教师了解或获得有关快速发展的生物医学科学内容，技术和职业的信息。为了解决这一未满足的需求，我们建议建立和扩大伙伴关系，（1）将跨学科生物医学科学的研究人员与高中教师联系起来，（2）促进对生物科学职业的兴趣和准备。 我们的建议，生物医学探索：从长凳到床边，包括科学和教育合作伙伴在一个创新的计划，可用于研究生信贷导致在生物技术教育证书。该计划将夏季为期两周的研究所的经验整合到学年的课堂行动中。在研究所期间，在真实的基础科学，临床和应用研究环境中的实验序列将说明当前的科学内容，教学方法，多样化的职业选择，以及从实验台到床边连续体的概念和技术相互关系。教师与科学和教育研究人员一起，将制定适当和负担得起的课程和实验室练习，向学生传达职业选择背景下的转化研究和药物开发原则。在学年期间，行动研究提案，资源，正式演讲，课堂成果审查和持续专业发展的激励措施旨在提供持续的支持和鼓励，以将科学过程，现实世界的技能和对生物科学职业的热情转移到农村和经济条件不利的学校。 拟议模式的结构组成部分的设计是可移植的研究机构谁寻求调整自己的学科优势，通过正在进行的学校合作伙伴关系，以满足国家和地区的需要，以改善科学教学/学习，加深学生的准备，并兴奋，科学和技术的职业生涯。 公共卫生相关性（由申请人提供）：生物技术教育在佛罗里达的需要已经大大增加，以应对成功和在佛罗里达大学及其姊妹机构，生物科学产业的快速增长，由国家培育的转化研究的持续扩张，以及在生物科学学术/工业伙伴关系的出现。我们的生物医学探索：Bench to Bedside提案支持科学教师在生物技术教育中不断获得个人充实和专业进步的机会，并使他们成为课堂变革的推动者。该计划借鉴了佛罗里达大学医学和生物技术研究和教育的所有组成部分，以促进高中教师的招聘，教育和认证，特别是那些来自农村和服务不足的社区的地区，那里需要一个准备充分的劳动力是高，意识和准备，在生物科学的职业生涯是低的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Current Florida and NIH initiatives in translational research (NIH Roadmap for Medical Research) require that today's students understand, and are academically prepared for, the research, clinical and technical positions increasingly available in the continuum from basic research to marketable medicines, diagnostics and devices. However, few high school teachers have awareness or access to information about rapidly developing biomedical science content, technologies, and careers. To address this unmet need, we propose to create and expand partnerships that (1) connect researchers in interdisciplinary biomedical sciences with teachers in high schools and (2) promote interest in and preparation for bioscience careers. Our proposal, Biomedical Explorations: Bench to Bedside, includes science and education partners in an innovative program available for graduate credit leading to a Certificate in Biotechnology Education. The program integrates experiences from a two-week Institute in the summer into classroom action during the school year. During the Institute, an experimental sequence in authentic basic science, clinical and applied research environments will illustrate current scientific content, pedagogical methods, diverse career options, and conceptual and technological interrelationships within the bench to bedside continuum. Teachers, together with science and education researchers, will develop appropriate and affordable lessons and laboratory exercises that convey to their students the principles of translational research and drug development in the context of career choices. During the school year, action research proposals, resources, formal presentations, review of classroom outcomes, and incentives for ongoing professional development aim to provide continuing support and encouragement to transition scientific processes, real-world skills, and enthusiasm for bioscience careers to schools in rural and economically disadvantaged settings. The structural components of the proposed model are designed to be transportable to research institutions who seek to adapt their disciplinary strengths, through ongoing school partnerships, to meet national and regional needs to improve science teaching/learning and to deepen student preparation for, and excitement about, science and technical careers. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (provided by applicant): The need for Biotechnology Education in Florida has increased dramatically in response to the successes and continuing expansion of translational research at the University of Florida and its sister institutions, the rapid growth of the Bioscience Industry fostered by the State, and the emergence of academic/industrial partnerships in the biosciences. Our Biomedical Explorations: Bench to Bedside proposal supports science teachers in ongoing opportunities for personal enrichment and professional advancement in biotechnology education, and empowers them as agents of change in classroom. This Program draws on all components of medical and biotechnology research and education at the University of Florida in order to further the recruitment, education, and certification of high school teachers, especially those from rural and underserved communities in regions where the need for a well-prepared workforce is high and awareness of, and preparation for, careers in the biosciences is low.