Short-Term Research Training For Optometry Students

T35 EY013937：面向验光专业学生的短期科研培训 项目摘要/摘要 印第安纳大学14名视觉科学家寻求提供短期研究培训 验光学院的学生。我们的长期目标是在这些学生中发展 对研究的持久兴趣将激励他们攻读视觉硕士和博士学位 科学，并最终导致在健康相关的视力研究的职业生涯。学生们受到指导 由拥有积极研究计划的视觉科学家提供。目前支持的研究经费 这些实验室包括通过10个R01、1个R41、1个R44和1个P30核心为NEI提供资金 赠款，加上印第安纳州卫生部的资金和来自 工业和基金会。 要求支助7名短期受训人员进行为期3个月的暑期研究。 拥有本科学位的学生通常在#年第一年结束时进入该项目。 验光学校。潜在的培训领域包括：光学(包括前部和前部 节段光学和视网膜成像)、生物学(包括前段遗传学、 RPE和角膜生理学的分子生物学)、疾病(包括眼表 缺陷、老年性黄斑变性、青光眼和眼球运动障碍)和视力 (包括光学像差对视觉性能、双目视觉和视觉的影响 婴儿期和幼儿期的发展)。 三门不同的研究生水平课程将使学员接触到a)流行病学、研究设计 和基本统计学作为视光课程的一部分，在进入 短期培训计划b)暑期培训期间的科研伦理问题， 以及c)在暑期培训期间对研究文献进行批判性评估。实习生 还组织了一个下午由当地视觉科学所做的研究报告 社区(约40个演示文稿)，这为他们提供了额外的体验 为当地提供研究机会，并向社会介绍研究成果。 我们鼓励学员在暑假结束后继续关注他们的研究兴趣 培训，通过(I)在导师的实验室继续他们的研究和(Ii)参加每周的研讨会 通过内部教员、研究生和访问学者，以及(Iii)参加科学研究 他们在导师的指导下展示他们的研究成果的会议。实习生是 还鼓励通过特殊学位项目在论文中包含他们的数据和分析 获得视觉科学硕士学位，通过在第二年到第二年的额外努力 他们可以在没有额外费用的情况下完成OD计划的第四个年头。

T35 EY013937: Short-term Research Training for Optometry Students Project summary/abstract Fourteen vision scientists at Indiana University seek to provide short-term research training to students in the School of Optometry. The long-term objective is to develop in these students an abiding interest in research that will motivate them to pursue M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Vision Science, and ultimately lead to careers in health-related vision research. Students are mentored by vision scientists with active research programs. The research funding currently supporting these laboratories includes NEI funding through ten R01s, an R41, an R44 and a P30 core grant, plus funds from the Indiana State Department of Health and multiple other grants from industry and foundations. Support is requested for seven short-term trainees for three months of summer research. Students with an undergraduate degree enter the program usually at the end of their first year in optometry school. The potential areas of training include: Optics (including both anterior segment optics and retinal imaging), Biology (including genetics of the anterior segment, molecular biology of the RPE and corneal physiology), Disease (including ocular surface defects, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma and oculomotor disorders), and Vision (including the impact of optical aberrations on visual performance, binocular vision and visual development in infancy and early childhood). Three different graduate level courses will expose trainees to a) Epidemiology, research design and basic statistics as part of the optometry curriculum during the spring prior to entering the short-term training program b) Ethical Issues in Scientific Research during the summer training, and c) Critical Evaluation of the Research Literature during the summer training. The trainees also organize an afternoon of research presentations made by the local vision science community (approximately 40 presentations), which provides them with additional experience with local research opportunities and the presentation of research findings to the community. The trainees are encouraged to continue following their research interest after their summer training, by (i) continuing their research in their mentor's lab and (ii) attending weekly seminars by in-house faculty, graduate students and visiting scholars, and by (iii) attending scientific meetings at which they present their research under the guidance of their mentors. Trainees are also encouraged through a special degree program to include their data and analysis in a thesis for an M.S. degree in Vision Science, which by additional efforts during the second through fourth year of the OD program they can complete without additional costs.