Iowa Summer Institute for Research Education in Biostatistics

 描述（由申请人提供）：这是爱荷华州大学向美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）、国家心肺和血液研究所（NHLBI）提交的一份提案，以响应RFA-HL-16-017关于生物统计学研究教育暑期研究所的要求。我们提出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，并保持一个坚实的代表性不足的少数民族管道进入生物统计学研究生课程。该提案是为爱荷华州（UI）生物统计学系每年招收18名学员的多元化群体，从2016年到2018年，重点是少数民族，代表性不足和弱势学生谁不会否则接触到生物统计学领域，并在为期七周的研究教育计划期间进行培训。招聘将针对没有研究生课程或广泛的统计学或生物统计学本科教育的高校毕业生，在我们的研究教育计划之后六个月没有承诺研究生课程的毕业生，以及具有明确愿景的非常有前途的大三学生，以追求生物统计学研究生学位。终端硕士的学生在定量领域，与 希望攻读生物统计学研究生学位的人也将被鼓励申请。将作出特别努力，招收多样化的学生，包括来自生物医学研究中代表性不足的群体的受训人员。该课程是一个基于教学的四个组成部分模型;应用;曝光;和研究。研究教育计划将通过基于案例的指导真实的生物医学研究，包括课堂教学课程;计算机实验室培训;特邀演讲者; Skype会议;影子会议;研究和临床和转化研究丰富。作为定量生物医学研究的开始，学员将进行生物医学教师指导的生物医学研究项目，通常与生物医学研究人员。学生将根据自己的兴趣从一个项目池中选择，并将与教师导师相匹配。项目将基于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。研究项目将在培训课程结束时的生物统计学最后专题讨论会上介绍。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生物统计学家互动。将提供关于如何成功准备GRE，如何准备成功申请以及如何申请研究生院的指导。

 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.