Boston University Summer Institute in Biostastics

描述(由申请人提供)： 波士顿大学提出了一个为期六周的强化项目，名为波士顿大学生物统计学暑期培训学院(BU SIBS)，该项目基于一个旨在吸引本科生对该领域众多令人兴奋的机会感兴趣的综合课程。该课程内容严谨，并穿插着突出生物统计学相关性的当前实例。我们的教职员工对该计划充满热情并致力于该计划，我们的外部演讲者小组也是如此，他们是来自学术界和工业界的执业生物统计学家和流行病学家，以及从事重要的高度公开研究的内科研究人员，如NHLBI赞助的Framingham心脏研究。BU SIBS的具体目标是：1)运行一个互动项目，旨在向不同的应届大学毕业生或高级本科生介绍生物统计学作为一门充满活力的、极其重要的学科，它为广泛的生物医学研究提供必要的工具，并提供许多令人兴奋的职业可能性；2)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，为学生提供生物统计分析、流行病学分析、临床试验和统计遗传学的基本原理的坚实基础；3)向本科生介绍SAS和R计算程序包，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心肺、血液和睡眠障碍研究的数据集解释统计程序包的输出；4)全面评估该计划，根据反馈和自我评估更新和修改课程，并最终传播可用于其他机构的高质量、全面的课程，以向本科生介绍生物统计学领域；以及5)指导学生在本国机构选课，并为申请生物统计学或其他学科的研究生课程提供职业咨询、建议和支持。我们强调一种教学策略，包括进行授课教学和积极的课堂讨论；由特定学科的专家进行演讲和小组讨论，以讨论使用特定技术并出现在媒体或最近的医学或公共卫生出版物中的例子；使用NHLBI数据集进行动手设计和分析练习；访问非现场地点，与从事生物统计研究的专业人员会面；以及学生和教职员工之间的团队合作和友谊精神。相关性：对受过充分培训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还会增长。波士顿大学生物统计学夏季培训学院是一个极其重要的项目，它将推动我们在不久的将来满足对合格生物统计学家的需求。(摘要结束)

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)