Short Term Research Training

 描述(由申请者提供)：北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校(UNC)提出了一项短期研究培训计划(STRT)，将为最多32名已完成至少一年医学院学业并目前正在注册的本科生提供为期3个月的研究经验。该计划的短期目标是为医学生在他们的医学院生涯早期提供有意义的研究经验。为了实现这一目标，该计划的目标是：(1)每年挑选最多32名对研究事业感兴趣的医学生，并将在8-12周内致力于研究项目。(2)将STRT学者与精心挑选的优秀教师导师相匹配，这些导师将作为榜样，帮助培养STT学生对研究的兴趣；(3)为STRT参与者提供必要的和可选的教学，这将增加获得研究经验的可能性，这将为学术医生的职业生涯提供一座桥梁；(4)跟踪STT的结果，以确定项目的成功。北卡罗来纳大学STRT计划的长期目标将是增加致力于以下领域研究的医学生人数：消化系统疾病、肝脏疾病、营养紊乱、肥胖、糖尿病、内分泌紊乱、代谢疾病、肾脏疾病、泌尿系统疾病和血液疾病。该计划利用了独特而可观的研究机构优势，包括由NIDDK资助的大量研究人员，NIDDK资助的消化系统疾病中心，以及来自四个不同卫生事务学校的广泛的研究人员，这些学校距离彼此很近。这样的安排创造了一种研究环境，将为终身研究生涯提供门户。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) proposes a Short Term Research Training Program (STRT) that will provide a 3-month research experience for up to 32 undergraduate medical students who have completed at least one year of medical school and are currently enrolled. The short term goal of the program is to provide medical students with a meaningful research experience early in their medical school career. In order to achieve that goal the aims of the program are: (1) To select up to 32 medical students per year who have an interest in a research career and will dedicate 8-12 weeks to work on a research project.; (2) To match the STRT Scholars to carefully selected, outstanding faculty mentors who will serve as role models and help nurture the interest of STRT students in research; (3) To provide STRT participants with required and optional didactics that will increase the likelihood of a research experience that will provide a bridge to a career as an academic physician; (4) To track the outcomes of STRT to determine the success of the program. The long-term goal of the UNC STRT Program will be to increase the number of medical students committed to a research career in the following areas: digestive diseases, liver disease, nutritional disorders, obesity, diabetes, endocrine disorders, metabolic diseases, kidney diseases, urologic diseases and hematologic disorders. The program takes advantage of unique and considerable institutional strengths in research, including a large number of NIDDK-funded investigators, an NIDDK-funded Digestive Diseases Center, and a broad array of investigators from four different health affairs schools who are located in close proximity to each other. Such an arrangement creates the kind of research environment that will provide the gateway for a lifelong research career.