Minnesota Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics

描述（由申请人提供）： 全国缺乏合格的生物统计学家。该应用程序旨在创建一个创新的暑期项目，明尼苏达暑期生物统计培训学院（SIBS），旨在刺激本科生追求生物统计学的职业生涯。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计划在三个为期6周的夏季会议，从2013年开始，并持续到2015年。培训将包括以教学能力而闻名的核心教师，他们每天都会讲课并主持讨论，研讨会发言人领导由国家心肺血液研究所（NHLBI）资助的重要心肺研究项目，以及一个主动学习的计算机实验室，受训者在那里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）中进行的数据分析并分组设计一项研究，通过使用居民的虚拟在线世界（“岛屿”）学习数据收集的实践和后勤方面。现场tris也计划为学员提供机会，看看临床研究的数据是如何产生的，以及生物统计学家如何在不同的环境中工作。

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.