Research in Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Immunology for Medical Students

描述(由申请者提供)：人们越来越担心在这个国家正在接受培训的内科科学家的数量正在下降。调查显示，对于选择内科研究人员职业的医学生来说，一个重要的影响因素是在医学院期间有机会获得指导研究经验。这一培训计划的主要目标是吸引有才华和兴趣的受训者进入学术医学职业生涯。这一目标将通过支持布法罗大学医学院医学和生物医学学院和罗斯威尔公园癌症研究所的暑期研究奖学金，为医学生提供在培训早期获得研究经验的机会来实现。 在过去的二十年里，传染病、微生物学和免疫学领域产生了激烈的研究活动。新技术和新发现使这些学科的研究发生了革命性的变化。布法罗大学拥有丰富而令人兴奋的环境来进行这些领域的研究。罗斯威尔公园癌症研究所是世界著名的综合性癌症中心，拥有国际公认的肿瘤免疫学研究人员。该项目与合作PI一起设计，以利用两所附属机构的优势，为学生在导师和项目方面提供广泛的选择。 培训补助金将支持6名一年级医学生在第二年的夏天花10周时间进行指导研究项目的津贴。22名拥有积极研究项目和丰富指导经验的教职员工将成为学生的导师池。该计划包括每周一次的系列研讨会，每周一次的实验室实践会议，以及负责任的研究行为培训。学生将在暑期课程结束时口头报告他们的工作，并在年度研究日以海报形式展示他们的工作。一种招收代表性不足的少数族裔和弱势学生的创新方法包括，每年为纽约联合医学院毕业后学士学位课程的一年级学生分配一个奖学金。将跟踪几个短期结果；要跟踪的长期结果将是学生实习生的职业选择。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is growing concern about a decline in the number of physician scientists being trained in this country. Surveys reveal that an important influence for medical students who choose careers as physician investigators is the opportunity for a mentored research experience during medical school. The broad goal of this training program is to attract talented and interested trainees into careers in academic medicine. The goal will be accomplished by providing medical students with the opportunity to have a research experience early in their training by supporting summer research fellowships at the University at Buffalo School Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Over the past two decades, the areas of infectious diseases, microbiology and immunology have generated intense research activity. New techniques and discoveries have revolutionized research in these disciplines. The University at Buffalo has a rich and exciting environment to perform research in these areas. Roswell Park Cancer Institute is a world renowned comprehensive cancer center with internationally recognized investigators in tumor immunology. The program is designed with Co-PIs to take advantage of the strengths of the two affiliated institutions to give students a broad range of choices in mentors and projects. The training grant will support stipends for 6 first year medical students to spend 10 weeks in the summer following first year performing a mentored research project. Twenty two faculty members with active research programs and extensive mentoring experience will serve as a pool of mentors for students. The program includes a weekly seminar series, a weekly laboratory practical session and training in the responsible conduct of research. Students will present their work orally at the end of the summer program and in poster format at an annual research day. An innovative approach to recruit underrepresented minorities and disadvantaged students includes assigning one fellowship each year to a first year student who graduated from the Post-baccalaureate program of the Associated Medical Schools of New York. Several short term outcomes will be tracked; the long term outcome to be tracked will be career choice of the student trainees.