Iowa Summer Institute for Research Education in Biostatistics

 描述(由申请人提供)：这是来自爱荷华州大学的国家卫生研究院(NIH)、国家心肺和血液研究所(NHLBI)对RFA-HL-16-017生物统计学研究教育暑期研究所的回应。我们提议的研究教育计划的最终愿景是增加进入生物统计学研究生课程的本科生人数，并保持进入生物统计学研究生课程的坚实的代表不足的少数族裔渠道。这项提议是，从2016年到2018年，爱荷华大学(UI)生物统计系每年招收18名不同类别的学员，重点是那些原本不会接触生物统计学领域的少数族裔、代表性不足和弱势学生，并在为期七周的研究教育计划中进行培训。招聘目标将是没有研究生课程或在统计学或生物统计学方面接受过广泛本科教育的学院和大学的新兴大四学生，在我们的研究教育计划结束六个月后毕业的没有承诺攻读研究生课程的大四学生，以及有明确愿景攻读生物统计学研究生学位的非常有前途的大三学生。终端硕士在数量领域的学生，具有 希望攻读生物统计学研究生学位的人也将被鼓励申请。将特别努力招收多样化的学生群体，包括来自生物医学研究中代表性不足的群体的受训人员。该课程是一个以教学、应用、展示和研究为基础的四元模式。研究教育计划将通过以病例为基础的真实生物医学研究教学，包括课堂教学课程；计算机实验室培训；特邀演讲者；Skype会议；跟踪会议；研究以及临床和翻译研究丰富。作为定量生物医学研究的开端，受训者将从事生物统计学--由教师指导的生物医学研究项目，通常与生物医学研究人员一起进行。学生将根据他们的兴趣从一系列项目中进行选择，并将与一名教师导师配对。项目将基于对生物医学数据的分析，和/或生物医学实验的设计，和/或与大数据相关的统计和计算问题。这些研究项目将在培训班结束时举行的生物统计学最后专题讨论会上发表。学员将与学术界、工业界、制药业、生物医学研究人员、生物统计学研究生和校友等领域的生物统计学家进行互动。如何成功地准备GRE，如何准备一份成功的申请，以及如何申请研究生院将提供指导。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), from the University of Iowa, in response to RFA-HL-16-017 for a Summer Institute for Research Education in Biostatistics. The ultimate vision of our proposed research education program is to increase the number of undergraduates who enter graduate programs in Biostatistics and to maintain a solid underrepresented minority pipeline into biostatistics graduate programs. The proposal is for the University of Iowa (UI) Department of Biostatistics to recruit a diverse group of 18 trainees each year, from 2016 to 2018, with focus on minority, underrepresented and disadvantaged students who wouldn't have otherwise been exposed to the field of biostatistics, and to train during a seven-week research education program. Recruitment will target rising seniors from colleges and universities without graduate programs or extensive undergraduate education in statistics or biostatistics, graduating senior students with no commitment to a graduate program six months following our research education program, and highly promising juniors with clear vision to pursue graduate degrees in biostatistics. Terminal Master's students in quantitative fields, with a desire to pursue a graduate degree in biostatistics will also be encouraged to apply. Special efforts will be made to recruit a diverse student body, including trainees from groups underrepresented in biomedical research. The curriculum is a four-component model based on instruction; application; exposure; and research. The research education program will be through case-based instruction of real biomedical study, consisting of a classroom didactic course; computer laboratory training; invited speakers; Skype sessions; shadowing sessions; research and clinical and translational research enrichment. As initiation to quantitative biomedical research, trainees will undertake biostatistics-faculty-mentored projects on biomedical research and typically with a biomedical researcher. Students will select from a pool of projects according to their interest, and will be matched to a faculty mentor. Projects will be based on the analysis of biomedical data, and/or the design of a biomedical experiment, and/or the statistical and computational issues associated with big data. The research projects will be presented at a biostatistics final symposium at the end of the training session. Trainees will interact with biostatisticians in academia, industry, the pharmaceutical industry, biomedical researchers, biostatistics graduate students and alumni and others. Guidance on how to successfully prepare for the GRE, how to prepare a successful application and how to apply to graduate schools will be provided.