Biomedical Research Experience for Veterinary Students

描述(由申请人提供)：根据几项研究的确定，生物医学研究界对兽医的国家需求非常迫切。NRSA短期机构研究培训补助金的长期目标是为兽医学生提供生物医学研究经验(BREVS)，继续吸引兽医从事生物医学研究。有两个短期的具体目标。首先，该计划将为兽医学生提供一个在活跃的实验室和导师提供的发现环境中进行短期独立研究项目的机会。该计划涵盖了研究项目的整个自然生命周期。它旨在让学生有机会帮助计划要进行的研究，进行文献回顾，制定研究方案，进行实验，并在数据发展和项目完成时展示数据。虽然这些项目计划在暑期完成，但当地学生有机会在兽医课程的第二、第三和第四年的选修课中继续他们的工作。其次，该计划将以讲座、讨论、实地考察和团队建设练习的形式为学生提供重要的、非实验室研究相关的经验。讲座和讨论的主题将包括实验设计和数据分析、研究交流、文献搜索和评估、在研究中使用动物、伦理、动物福利和负责任的研究行为。将继续组织当地专家关于基因治疗、转基因动物和干细胞的专题讲座。实地考察将使学者们接触到灵长类中心、医学研究所、医学院校园和技术中心的生物医学研究公司的研究环境。这些活动将开始让学者们了解他们毕业后可获得的研究机会的多样性和深度。随着这笔赠款的续期，BREVS计划将继续与8名NIH学者一起额外提供5年的支持。这与我们的成功、对该项目兴趣的增加以及我们不断从其他云服务器吸引更多学生的努力是一致的。该计划的目的是让专业学生作为一个集体和个人沉浸在一个令人兴奋的、以科学为基础的问题解决环境中，这个环境的中心是一个可识别的研究项目。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As determined by several studies there is a critical national need for veterinarians in the biomedical research community. The long term objective of this NRSA Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grant, Biomedical Research Experience for Veterinary Students (BREVS), continues to be the attraction of veterinarians to careers in biomedical research. There are two short term specific aims. First, the program will provide veterinary students with an opportunity to conduct a short term independent research project in an environment of discovery provided by an active laboratory and mentor. The program spans the natural life of a research project. It is designed to afford the student the opportunity to help plan the studies to be conducted, conduct a literature review, develop a research proposal, conduct the experiments, and present the data as it evolves and when the project is completed. While these projects are designed to be completed during the summer, local students have the opportunity to continue their work during elective blocks during the second, third and fourth years of the veterinary curriculum. Secondly, the program will provide students with significant, non-laboratory research relevant experiences in the form of lectures, discussions, field trips, and team building exercises. Topics for lectures and discussions will include experimental design and data analysis, research communication, literature searching and evaluation, the use of animals in research, ethics, animal welfare, and the responsible conduct of research. Specific lectures by local experts on gene therapy, transgenic animals, and stem cells will continue to be organized. Field trips will expose the scholars to the research environments of a primate center, medical research institute, medical school campus, and biomedical research companies in a technology center. Together these events will begin to provide the scholars with an understanding the diversity and depth of research opportunities available to them when they graduate. With the renewal of this grant, the BREVS program will continue with 8 NIH scholars for 5 additional years of support. This is consistent with our success, the increased interest in the program, and our continuing efforts to attract additional students from other CVMs. The intent of the program is to immerse the professional students as a group and individually into an exciting, science based problem solving environment which has at its center an identifiable research project.