Minnesota Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics

描述(由申请人提供)： 全国范围内缺乏合格的生物统计学家。这项申请旨在创建一个创新的暑期项目，明尼苏达州生物统计暑期培训学院(SIBS)，旨在鼓励本科生追求生物统计的职业生涯。培训计划将设在公共卫生学院生物统计学系。25名学员将参加明尼苏达州SIBS计划，从2013年开始，持续到2015年，每期为期6周的暑期课程。培训将包括以教学能力著称的核心教员每天讲课和领导讨论，领导由国家心肺血液研究所(NHLBI)资助的重要心肺研究项目的研讨会演讲者，以及一个主动学习计算机实验室，学员在其中分析和解释他们在具有里程碑意义的多风险因素干预试验(MRFIT)上进行的数据分析，并通过使用居民的虚拟在线世界(“岛”)小组工作来设计一项研究，学习数据收集的实际和后勤方面的问题。还计划为学员提供实地TRIS，以了解临床研究的数据是如何产生的，以及生物统计学家在不同环境下是如何工作的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a national shortage of qualified biostatisticians. This application aims to create an innovative summer program, the Minnesota Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics (SIBS), aimed at stimulating undergraduate students to pursue careers in biostatistics. The training program will be housed in the Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Heath. Twenty-five trainees will participate in the Minnesota SIBS program in each of three 6-week summer sessions beginning in 2013 and continuing through 2015. The training will include core faculty known for their teaching ability who will present lessons and lead discussions each day, seminar speakers who lead important heart and lung research projects funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and an active learning computer laboratory where trainees analyze and interpret data analyses they carry out on the landmark Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) and work in groups to design a study and learn practical and logistical aspects of data collection by using a virtual online world of inhabitants ("The Island"). Field tris are also planned for the trainees to provide opportunities to see how data for clinical studies arise and how biostatisticians in different settings work.