BRITE Veterinary Student Program

描述（由申请人提供）：堪萨斯州立大学兽医学院（KSU-CVM）的教师和管理人员致力于培训兽医学生进行比较生物医学研究。我们相信，兽医专业的未来取决于我们为表现出研究潜力的兽医学生提供加速，综合和补贴研究培训机会的能力。为此，基础研究沉浸式培训体验（BRITE）兽医学生计划旨在为吸引有才华的专业学生进入生物医学研究职业提供密集的研究型体验。通过指导研究经验，BRITE计划使学员接触与假设形成，实验设计，数据采集和分析以及研究结果报告相关的方法。此外，BRITE学生接受正式培训，负责进行研究。最重要的是，BRITE计划为对研究职业感兴趣的兽医学生提供了一个灵活，综合的机会，可以获得硕士学位或“启动”DVM/博士课程。BRITE计划的教师是由成熟的，富有成效的高级调查员和训练有素的积极的职业中期和初级教师组成。这些科学家拥有活跃的实验室，强大的合作历史以及广泛的科学和技术专业知识。潜在的导师池包括教师与主要学术任命在7个部门/单位在堪萨斯州立大学，和研究强调三个领域：比较医学;上皮健康和疾病;和宿主-病原体-环境界面。BRITE学生能够在分子，细胞，有机体和系统水平上研究与人类健康相关的问题。BRITE校友有望追求联合收割机兽医与比较生物医学研究相结合的职业道路。 公共卫生相关性（由申请人提供）：国家急需从事生物医学研究的兽医，以促进公共卫生。拟议的培训计划将鼓励兽医学生追求这一职业道路。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The faculty and administration at the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine (KSU-CVM) are dedicated to training veterinary students in comparative biomedical research. We believe that the future of the veterinary profession depends on our ability to provide the veterinary students who exhibit research potential with accelerated, integrated and subsidized research training opportunities. To this end, the Basic Research Immersion Training Experience (BRITE) veterinary student program is designed as an intensive research oriented experience directed towards attracting talented professional students into biomedical research careers. Through mentored research experiences, the BRITE program exposes trainees to the methodologies associated with hypothesis formation, experimental design, data acquisition and analysis and reporting of research results. In addition, BRITE students receive formal training in the responsible conduct of research. Most importantly, the BRITE program provides veterinary students interested in research careers with a flexible, integrated opportunity to either earn a Masters degree or "jump-start" a combined DVM/PhD program. The BRITE program faculty is comprised of established, productive senior investigators and well-trained motivated mid-career and junior faculty. These scientists have active laboratories, a strong history of collaboration, and wide-ranging scientific and technical expertise. The pool of potential mentors includes faculty members with primary academic appointments in 7 departments/units at Kansas State University, and research emphasizing three areas: comparative medicine; epithelial health and disease; and the host-pathogen-environment interface. BRITE students are able to investigate problems relevant to human health at the molecular, cellular, organismal and systems levels. BRITE alumni are expected to pursue career paths that combine veterinary medicine with comparative biomedical research. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (provided by applicant): There is a critical national need for veterinarians engaged in biomedical research to promote the public health. The proposed training program will encourage veterinary students to pursue this career path.