Boston University Summer Institute in Biostastics

波士顿大学生物统计暑期学院

• 批准号: 7755239
• 负责人: ANITA L DESTEFANO
• 金额: $ 24.79万
• 依托单位: BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-20 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7755239
• 关键词: Academia; Area; Biomedical Research; Biometry; Blood; Boston; Clinical Trials; Commit; Data Set; Discipline; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Epidemiologist; Epidemiology; Evaluation; Exercise; Faculty; Feedback; Foundations; Framingham Heart Study; Future; Genetic; Goals; Hand; Heart; Home environment; Industry; Institutes; Institution; Location; Lung; Medical; Mentors; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Output; Physicians; Principal Investigator; Public Health; Publications; Qualifying; Research; Research Personnel; Running; Site; Sleep Disorders; Solid; Students; Techniques; Training; Universities; Update; Visit; Vocational Guidance; Work; abstracting; base; career; college; design; innovation; interest; meetings; programs; skills; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Boston University proposes an intensive six-week program entitled the 'Boston University Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics (BU SIBS)', based on a comprehensive curriculum designed to interest undergraduates in the many exciting opportunities in the field. The curriculum is rigorous and interspersed with current examples that highlight the relevance of biostatistics. Our faculty is enthusiastic and committed to the program, as are our panel of outside speakers who are practicing biostatisticians and epidemiologists from academia and industry, and physician researchers working on important highly-publicized studies such as the NHLBI-sponsored Framingham Heart Study. The specific aims of BU SIBS are: 1) To run an interactive program designed to introduce a diverse body of recent college graduates or advanced undergraduate students to biostatistics as a vibrant, vitally important discipline that provides essential tools for a wide range of biomedical research and offers many exciting possibilities as a career; 2) To provide students with a solid foundation in the basic principles of biostatistical analysis, epidemiological analysis, design and analysis of clinical trials and statistical genetics using innovative and creative approaches to teaching and through highly publicized and relevant examples; 3) To introduce undergraduate students to the SAS and R computing packages, to provide fundamental skills that will enable them to confidently conduct basic statistical analyses and interpret output from statistical packages using datasets available from NHLBI studies of heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders; 4) To fully evaluate the program, update and modify the curriculum based on feedback and self-evaluation and to ultimately disseminate a high quality, comprehensive curriculum that can be used in other institutions to introduce undergraduates to the field of biostatistics; and 5) To mentor students in course selection at their home institutions, and to provide career counseling, advice and support for applications to graduate programs in biostatistics or other disciplines. We emphasize a teaching strategy that integrates engaging didactic teaching and active classroom discussion; presentations and panel discussions by experts from specific disciplines to discuss examples that utilized specific techniques and appeared in the media or in recent medical or public health publications; hands-on design and analysis exercises with NHLBI data sets; visits to off-site locations to meet professionals engaged in biostatistical research, and a spirit of teamwork and camaraderie among students and faculty. RELEVANCE: There is a tremendous need for adequately trained biostatisticians and the demand for qualified biostatisticians is expected to grow. The Boston University Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics is an extremely important program that will move us toward our goal of meeting the demands for qualified biostatisticians in the near future. (End of Abstract)

描述（由申请人提供）： 波士顿大学提出了一个为期六周的密集计划，名为“波士顿大学暑期生物统计学培训学院（BU SIBS）”，基于一个全面的课程，旨在吸引本科生在该领域的许多令人兴奋的机会。该课程是严格的，并穿插与当前的例子，突出生物统计学的相关性。我们的教师是热情和致力于该计划，因为是我们的外部发言人谁是执业生物统计学家和流行病学家从学术界和工业界，和医生研究人员工作的重要高度宣传的研究，如NHLBI赞助的心脏病研究小组。BU SIBS的具体目标是：1）运行一个互动程序，旨在介绍一个新的大学毕业生或高年级本科生的多元化机构，生物统计学作为一个充满活力的，至关重要的学科，提供了广泛的生物医学研究的基本工具，并提供了许多令人兴奋的可能性作为一个职业; 2）为学生提供生物统计分析，流行病学分析，设计和分析临床试验和统计遗传学使用创新和创造性的教学方法，并通过高度宣传和相关的例子; 3）向本科生介绍SAS和R计算软件包，提供基本技能，使他们能够自信地进行基本的统计分析，并使用NHLBI心脏，肺，血液和睡眠障碍研究的数据集解释统计软件包的输出; 4）充分评估该计划，更新和修改课程的基础上反馈和自我评估，并最终传播高质量，综合课程，可用于其他机构介绍本科生到生物统计学领域;和5）指导学生在他们的家机构的课程选择，并提供职业咨询，建议和支持申请生物统计学或其他学科的研究生课程。我们强调的教学策略，结合从事教学和积极的课堂讨论;演示文稿和小组讨论的专家从特定学科讨论的例子，利用特定的技术，并出现在媒体或最近的医学或公共卫生出版物;动手设计和分析练习与NHLBI数据集;访问场外地点，以满足从事生物统计研究的专业人士，以及学生和教师之间的团队合作和同志情谊的精神。相关性：对训练有素的生物统计学家的需求巨大，对合格生物统计学家的需求预计将增长。波士顿大学生物统计学暑期培训研究所是一个非常重要的计划，它将使我们朝着在不久的将来满足合格生物统计学家需求的目标前进。(End摘要）