Short-Term Research Training for AuD Students

描述（由申请人提供）：Boys Town National Research Hospital (BTNRH) 的 AuD 学生短期研究培训计划每年将为 5 名博士前 AuD 学生提供为期 3 个月的听力科学领域全职实践转化研究经验。 AuD 学生将参与研究项目的各个方面，在目前正在进行听力学相关转化研究的 13 个 BTNRH 实验室之一工作。 13 个实验室主任中的大多数都获得外部支持，主要来自 NIDCD，以 R01 和 R03 补助金的形式提供。学生将与 BTNRH 教师导师一起工作，他们在面向临床的多学科研究环境中拥有丰富的工作经验。经验将包括（1）实验设计，（2）受试者招募、安排和同意（假设研究项目涉及人类），（3）数据收集和分析，（4）准备描述他们工作的海报，以及（5）如果合适，准备手稿。 在参与研究之前，学生将完成与人类作为参与者的研究相关的 CITI 培训课程。此外，他们还将参加关于负责任的研究行为的课程，该课程将在他们的实习期间进行。学生将参加座谈会和期刊小组，除了他们主要感兴趣的实验室外，还将接触各种实验室。他们将受益于支持服务，包括致力于实验室计算和统计分析、受试者招募的核心，以及一个新的核心 Synergy Core，该核心支持来自 BTNRH 之外的演讲者的座谈会和其他演讲。 T35 学员还将受益于博士后研究员的存在，他们在许多实验室工作，博士前 AuD 学生将在其中接受培训。博士后研究员（其中许多人将继续学术生涯）将受益于与教师导师一起参与学生培训。 T35 学员将受益于 BTNRH 教师的经验，他们曾指导博士后研究员（作为 T32 补助金的一部分），为内布拉斯加大学林肯分校的 AuD 和博士生提供研究培训，并指导参加第一轮 T35 计划的 AuD 学员。 T35 学员将从全国范围内的 AuD 计划中招募，并特别努力从代表性不足的人群中识别和招募学员。将使用多种措施来评估项目的成功，包括（1）每位学员完成的退出调查问卷，（2）发送给AuD项目主管的调查问卷，要求他们评估T35实习对其学生的影响，（3）为研究职业做准备而继续攻读博士学位的T35学员人数，（4）在强调研究的职位上工作的AuD人数，（5）在全国会议上展示其工作的学员人数美国听觉协会 (AAS)，以及 (6) 学员作为第一作者或共同作者的出版物数量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Short-Term Research Training Program for AuD Students at the Boys Town National Research Hospital (BTNRH) will provide 3-month, full-time hands-on translational research experiences in the hearing sciences to five predoctoral AuD students per year. AuD student will be involved in all aspects of a research project, working in one of 13 BTNRH laboratories currently conducting translational research related to audiology. Most of the 13 laboratory directors have extramural support, mainly from the NIDCD in the form of R01 and R03 grants. Students will work with BTNRH faculty mentors who have extensive experience working in a clinically oriented, multidisciplinary research environment. The experience will include (1) experimental design, (2) subject recruitment, scheduling and consenting (assuming the research project involve humans), (3) data collection and analysis, (4) preparation of a poster describing their work, and (5) if appropriate, preparation of a manuscript. Prior to research participation, students will complete the CITI training course related to research involving human as participants. In addition, they will participate in a course on responsible conduct in research which will meet over the course of their traineeship. Students will attend colloquia and journal groups, and will be exposed to a wide range of laboratories, in addition to the one in which they have primary interest. They will benefit from support services, including cores devoted to laboratory computing and statistical analyses, subject recruitment, and a new core, the Synergy Core, which supports colloquia and other presentations by speakers from outside BTNRH. T35 trainees also will benefit from the presence of postdoctoral fellows who work in many of the laboratories in which predoctoral AuD students will be trained. Postdoctoral fellows, many of whom will go on to academic careers, will benefit by participating with faculty mentors in the training of students. T35 trainees will benefit from the experience of BTNRH faculty who have mentored postdoctoral fellows (as part of the T32 grant), provided research training to AuD and PhD students at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, and mentored AuD trainees who participated in the first cycle of the T35 program. T35 trainees will be recruited from AuD programs nationally, with special efforts to identify and recruit trainees from under-represented populations. Several measures will be used to assess program success including (1) exit questionnaires completed by each trainee, (2) a survey questionnaire sent to AuD program directors who are asked to provide an assessment of the impact of the T35 traineeship on their students, (3) the number of T35 trainees who go on to the PhD in preparation for a career in research, (4) the number of AuDs who work in positions in which research is emphasized, (5) the number of trainees who present their work at the national meeting of the American Auditory Society (AAS), and (6) the number of publications on which trainees are either first authors or co-authors.