Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Research Experience Program

描述（由申请人提供）： 范德比尔特生物医学信息学培训计划，在其第九年的培训补助金资助从国家医学图书馆，提出了一个范德比尔特生物医学信息学夏季研究经验计划五年的支持，开始2011年5月1日。我们有信心，通过暑期研究经验计划，这将作为生物医学信息学（DBMI）暑期实习计划的范德比尔特部门的一部分，我们将为本科生和高中生提供密集接触生物医学信息学研究，从而鼓励学生考虑追求信息学的研究事业。范德比尔特暑期实习项目已经进入第11个年头，为60名医学生、研究生和本科生提供了短期培训机会，其中46名由NLM T15资助。拟议的为期10周的暑期研究计划的经验将使参与者接触到生物医学信息学领域的广度和深度，通过：a）由教师密切监督的应用研究项目，包括负责进行研究的指导和向DBMI教师和学生介绍这些项目;和B）一个教学课程，DBMI夏季研讨会系列，在其中我们的教师探索生物医学信息学领域和一系列的职业选择提供给学生感兴趣的生物医学信息学。以前的DBMI暑期实习生已经与他们的导师发表了20多篇论文（11位第一作者），其中一些人在暑期之后继续他们的项目。通过Meharry-范德比尔特联盟，1999年形成的战略联盟，以加强两个机构之间的教育，科学和临床计划，该计划享有成功招募代表性不足的少数民族学生进入我们的暑期实习计划的T15短期培训职位（少数STTP）。从2009年至2010年，我们的NLM T15的行政补充支持11名本科生通过ARRA资助的暑期研究经验计划进行DBMI教师指导的研究。我们与田纳西州州立大学和甘蔗岭高中（地铁纳什维尔公立学校），通过它，我们将招募来自不同背景的本科生和高中生为拟议的夏季研究计划更新的教育合作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Training Program, in its ninth year of training grant funding from the National Library of Medicine, proposes a Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Research Experience Program for five years of support, beginning May 1, 2011. We are confident that through the Summer Research Experience Program, which will operate as part of the Vanderbilt Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) Summer Internship Program, we will provide undergraduate students and high school students with an intensive exposure to biomedical informatics research, thereby encouraging students to consider pursuing research careers in informatics. Now in its eleventh year, the Vanderbilt Summer Internship Program has offered short-term training opportunities to 60 medical, graduate, and undergraduate students, of which 46 were funded by the NLM T15. The proposed 10-week Summer Research Program experiences will expose participants to the breadth and depth of the biomedical informatics field through: a) applied research projects that are closely supervised by faculty, including instruction in the responsible conduct of research and presentations of those projects to DBMI faculty and students; and b) a didactic curriculum, the DBMI Summer Seminar Series, in which our faculty explore the field of biomedical informatics and a range of career options available to students interested in biomedical informatics. Previous DBMI summer interns have published more than 20 papers with their mentors (11 first-author) and several have continued their projects beyond the summer period. Through the Meharry- Vanderbilt Alliance, a strategic alliance formed in 1999 to enhance the educational, scientific, and clinical programs between the two institutions, the program enjoys success in recruiting underrepresented minority students into our Summer Internship Program's T15 Short-Term Training Positions (minority STTPs). From 2009-2010, an administrative supplement to our NLM T15 supported 11 undergraduate students performing research mentored by DBMI faculty through the ARRA-funded Summer Research Experiences program. We have newer educational collaborations with Tennessee State University and Cane Ridge High School (Metro Nashville Public Schools), through which we will recruit undergraduate students and high school students from diverse backgrounds for the proposed Summer Research Program.