Clinical & Basic NIDDK Research Training for Medical Students

此应用程序是继续在UT西南医学机构的国家研究服务奖 该中心将允许对医学生进行基础和临床生物医学研究的短期培训， NIDDK的重点领域。 UT西南医学中心的医学生研究有着悠久而丰富的传统。以来 这些活动始于20世纪50年代末，涵盖了广泛的研究机会， 由州政府私人和联邦基金资助。得到支持的研究活动包括： 包括基础、临床和应用领域。在过去的十年里，这一计划大幅增加， 与UT可用的设施和教师的出现和发展相称 西南医学中心校园 本申请旨在继续在上一个资助期内建立的培训计划， 注重医学生在临床和基础研究方面的正规培训。 根据前期取得的经验，我们将继续开发和加强短期 培训计划旨在为UT西南医学中心的医学生提供机会 和整个美国。根据我们在查明 以及学生和导师的配对，我们预计这些经验将进一步丰富 在UT西南医学中心和美国其他地区的学生的研究背景。 本申请中描述的程序将采用西南现有的教师和程序， 专注于NIDDK感兴趣的领域。此外，我们认为，该方案将作为一个重点， 进一步丰富UT西南和参与机构的医学生研究活动，并将 加强NIDDK资助研究的现有要素。这些活动将有助于提高人们的认识， 可用于医学生培训的额外机会（例如Doris杜克临床 医学生研究奖学金，Sarnoff心血管研究奖学金），并加强 通过这些项目寻求培训的学生的质量。

This application is to continue an institutional National Research Service Award at UT Southwestern Medical Center that will permit short-term training for medical students in basic and clinical biomedical research in areas of NIDDK focus. Medical student research at UT Southwestern Medical Center has a long and rich tradition. Since its inception in the late 1950's, these activities have encompassed a wide range of research opportunities that have been funded by state, private, and federal funds. Research activities that have been supported have included basic, clinical and applied areas. This program has increased substantially in the past decade, commensurate with the emergence and development of facilities and faculty available on the UT Southwestern Medical Center campus. This application seeks to continue a training program established during the last funding period that will focus on the exposure and development of medical students to formal training in clinical and basic research. Based on experiences gained during the prior period, we will continue to develop and enhance a short-term training program designed to provide opportunities to medical students at UT Southwestern Medical Center and throughout the United States. Building upon the experience that we have amassed in the identification and pairing of students and mentors, we anticipate that these experiences will further serve to enrich the research background of students at UT Southwestern Medical Center and in other parts of the United States. The program described in this application will employ the existing faculty and programs at Southwestern that are focused in areas of NIDDK interest. Furthermore, we believe that this program will serve as a focal point to further enrich medical student research activities at UT Southwestern and participating institutions and will enhance existing element of NIDDK-funded research. Such activities will serve to heighten the awareness of additional opportunities that are available for the training of medical students (e.g. the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowships for Medical Students, Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Fellowships) and to enhance the quality of students seeking training though the auspices of such programs.