Short-Term Research Training for AuD Students

描述（由申请人提供）：在男孩镇国家研究医院（BTNRH）的AuD学生的短期研究培训计划将提供3个月，全职动手在听力科学的翻译研究经验，每年五个博士前AuD学生。AuD学生将参与研究项目的各个方面，在目前进行听力学相关转化研究的13个BTNRH实验室之一工作。13名实验室主任中的大多数都得到了校外支持，主要是来自NIDCD的R01和R03赠款。学生将与BTNRH教师导师合作，他们在临床导向的多学科研究环境中拥有丰富的工作经验。这些经验将包括（1）实验设计，（2）受试者招募，时间安排和同意（假设研究项目涉及人类），（3）数据收集和分析，（4）准备描述其工作的海报，以及（5）如果合适，准备手稿。 在参与研究之前，学生将完成与人类参与研究相关的CITI培训课程。此外，他们还将参加一个关于负责任的研究行为的课程，该课程将在他们的培训期间举行。学生将参加座谈会和期刊组，并将接触到广泛的实验室，除了在其中他们有主要兴趣之一。他们将受益于支持服务，包括专门用于实验室计算和统计分析的核心，受试者招募，以及一个新的核心，协同核心，它支持来自BTNRH以外的演讲者的座谈会和其他演讲。T35学员还将受益于在许多培训博士前AuD学生的实验室工作的博士后研究员的存在。博士后研究员，其中许多人将继续学术生涯，将受益于参与教师导师在学生的培训。T35学员将受益于BTNRH教师的经验，他们指导博士后研究员（作为T32赠款的一部分），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T35计划第一周期的AuD学员。T35学员将从全国的AuD项目中招募，并特别努力从代表性不足的人群中识别和招募学员。将使用几种措施来评估计划的成功，包括（1）每个受训者完成的退出问卷，（2）发送给AuD计划主任的调查问卷，要求他们评估T35实习对其学生的影响，（3）T35受训者继续攻读博士学位以准备从事研究工作的人数，（4）在强调研究的职位上工作的Auds的数量，（5）在美国听觉学会（AAS）全国会议上展示其工作的受训人员的数量，以及（6）受训人员是第一作者或共同作者的出版物的数量。

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.