Biostatistics with a Focus on Cardiovascular Health and Minority Populations

描述(由申请人提供)： 我们的T-15 SIBS匹兹堡项目是一个为期6周的协作生物统计学暑期住宿培训项目，旨在鼓励高级本科生/新近毕业的大学毕业生考虑进行生物统计学/统计学的研究生培训。我们的计划面向对学术生物医学研究感兴趣的量化学生。匹兹堡SIBS强调了在心血管健康和少数群体多学科研究的背景下，生物统计学的合作性质。具体目标是：在引人注目的科学问题和研究数据的背景下，向受训者介绍基本的生物统计学方法；向受训者传授自己解决这些问题所需的分析和计算机技能；积极让受训者参与协作小组环境中的个别项目；以及教育受训者生物统计思维的作用 在生物统计领域的合作研究和进一步培训/就业机会方面。我们专注于设计、理论、应用交流和计算。我们计划再培训60名学员(每年20名)。 SIBs匹兹堡商学院是一个4学分的项目，由生物统计学入门、流行病学和遗传学的综合3学分课程和1学分的合作生物统计学研讨会/独立项目组成。本课程由在临床试验、适应性设计、用药安全性、卫生服务研究、降低风险因素、少数族裔健康、统计遗传学和调查抽样等领域拥有专业知识的合作生物统计学家授课。我们的合作者作为临床导师参与了几个由NHLBI和其他NIH资助的心血管疾病、肺炎、糖尿病和慢性肾脏疾病的大型试验，以及丙型肝炎和口腔健康的人群研究。在计算机实验室，学员学习通过撰写扩展摘要来交流结果，这些摘要基于他们对NHLBI资助的BARI研究和Virahep-C研究数据的分析。在研讨会部分，学员根据我们合作者提供的数据集开发单独的项目。该计划在每年年底使用持续的反馈和重点小组进行评估，并进行相应的修订。40名学员参加了SIBS匹兹堡项目的头两年；目前从大学毕业的17人中有10人在研究生院，16名大四学生中有9人申请了研究生院。匹兹堡SIBS成功地鼓励博士后学员在生物统计学及相关领域进行研究生培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our T-15 SIBS Pittsburgh program is a 6-week residential summer training program in collaborative biostatistics designed to encourage advanced undergraduate students/recent college graduates to consider graduate training in biostatistics/statistics. Our program targets quantitatively oriented students who are interested in academic biomedical research. SIBS Pittsburgh highlights the collaborative nature of biostatistics within the context of multidisciplinary research studies in cardiovascular health and minority populations. The specific aims are to: introduce trainees to basic biostatistical methods in the context of compelling scientific questions and research data; teach trainees the analytic and computer skills necessary to address these questions themselves; actively involve trainees in individual projects within collaborative group settings; and educate trainees about the role of biostatistical thinking in collaborative research and opportunities for further training/employment in the field of biostatistics. We focus on design, theory, application communication, and computation. We plan to train a total of 60 additional trainees (20 per year). SIBS Pittsburgh is a 4-credit program comprised of an integrated 3-credit course in Introductory Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Genetics and a 1-credit Collaborative Biostatistics Seminar/Independent Project. This program is taught by collaborative biostatisticians with expertise in the areas of clinical trials, adaptive designs, medication safety, health services research, risk factor reduction, minority health, statistical genetics, and survey sampling. Our collaborators on several large NHLBI- and other NIH-funded trials in cardiovascular disease, pneumonia, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease, and population-based studies of Hepatitis-C and oral health, participate as clinical mentors. In the computer laboratory, trainees learn to communicate results by writing extended abstracts based on their analyses of data from the NHLBI-funded BARI study and the Virahep-C study. In the seminar component, trainees develop individual projects based on datasets available from our collaborators. The program is evaluated using ongoing feedback and focus groups at the end of each year, and revised accordingly. Forty trainees have participated in the first 2 years of the SIBS Pittsburgh program; 10 of the 17 who have graduated from college currently are in graduate school, and 9 of the 16 current seniors have applied to graduate school. SIBS Pittsburgh has successfully encouraged pre-doctoral participants to pursue graduate training in biostatistics and related fields.