MOST in the Summer

描述（由申请人提供）：MOSTSummer计划建立在伊利诺伊大学芝加哥牙科学院现有的培训机会的基础上，为博士前和博士后研究员提供培训。拟议的项目将为10名本科生提供密集的指导研究经验，以及职业发展和其他补充活动。该计划将作为MOST研究管道的延伸，该管道旨在招募，培训和安置口腔健康职业人员，特别是学术机构的人员。因此，它将完全融入芝加哥伊利诺伊大学医学院，使参与者能够获得完整的培训机会，并与MOST计划中的博士前和博士后任命的长期受训者相结合。假设是，提供夏季研究机会，个人在他们的教育早期将增加申请人池t研究培训计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The MOSTSummer Program builds on existing training opportunities in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry for predoctora and postdoctoral fellows. The proposed project will provide intensive mentored research experiences for 10 undergraduate students coupled with career development and other supplementary activities. The program will create serve as an extension of the MOST research pipeline, a pipeline that is intended to recruit, train and place individuals in oral health career, particularly those in academic institutions. As such, it will be fully integrated into the medical campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, allowing participants access to a full menu of training opportunities and to integration with long-term trainees in the predoctoral and postdoctoral appointments in the MOST Program. The hypothesis is that providing summer research opportunities to individuals earlier in their education will increase the applicant pool t research training programs.