Short-Term Research Training of Veterinary Students in Wisconsin

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案的具体目标是积极吸引兽医学生参与既定的、资金充足的研究项目，并增加积极参与研究的兽医人数。该计划还将帮助招募对该计划有特定兴趣的兽医学生在威斯康星州大学攻读DVM，增加在威斯康星州大学攻读研究培训的少数民族学生的数量，告知兽医学生研究职业，并为参与学生提供道德介绍，负责任的研究行为和成功的研究职业技能。该计划的主要目标是向兽医学生介绍研究，并为他们提供至少一个如何识别对动物和/或人类的健康和福利具有重要意义的问题的工作知识，开发假设来测试所选问题，识别和验证适当的技术来进行研究，并分析和报告（口头和书面）数据。学员将参加定期安排的实验室会议和每周研讨会，专门为学生在10周的暑期课程。学员将在夏季兽医研究学者研讨会（通常是每年8月举行的梅里亚兽医学者计划研讨会）上展示他们的研究结果，或者在威斯康星州兽医学院举行的研讨会上展示他们的研究。一般来说，威斯康星州的大学，特别是兽医学院，有一个理想的环境，以支持兽医学生的短期研究培训。我们预计，拟议中的计划将顺利整合与目前的培训计划，以提供一个连续的支持兽医学生在威斯康星州的研究培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Specific Aims of this proposal are to actively engage veterinary medical students in established, well-funded research programs and to increase the number of veterinarians actively engaged in research. This program will also help recruit veterinary medical students with specific interest in this program to pursue the DVM at the University of Wisconsin, increase the number of minority students pursuing research training at the University of Wisconsin, inform veterinary medical students of careers in research, and provide participating students with an introduction to ethics, responsible conduct of research, and skills for successful careers in research. The over-arching objective of this program is to introduce veterinary medical students to research and provide them with at least a working knowledge of how to identify a problem of significance to the health and welfare of animals and/or humans, develop a hypothesis to test the question selected, identify and validate appropriate techniques to pursue the research, and analyze and report (orally and in writing) data. Trainees will participate in regularly scheduled laboratory meetings and weekly seminars conducted specifically for students in the 10 week summer program. Trainees will either present the results of their research at the summer veterinary research scholars symposium (typically the Merial Veterinary Scholars Program Symposium held annually in August) or present their research at seminars held at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine. The University of Wisconsin in general, and the School of Veterinary Medicine in particular, has an ideal environment to support short-term research training of veterinary students. We anticipate that the proposed program will integrate smoothly with current training programs to provide a continuum of support for research training of veterinary students in Wisconsin.