MOST in the Summer

描述(由申请者提供)：MOSTSummer计划建立在伊利诺伊大学芝加哥牙科学院为博士后和博士后研究员提供的现有培训机会的基础上。拟议的项目将为10名本科生提供密集的导师研究经验，同时还将开展职业发展和其他补充活动。该计划将创建MOST研究管道的延伸，该管道旨在招聘、培训和安置口腔健康职业生涯中的个人，特别是学术机构的个人。因此，它将完全融入伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校的医学院校园，使参与者能够获得完整的培训机会，并与MOST计划的博士后和博士后长期受训人员进行整合。这个假设是，在个人教育的早期阶段为个人提供暑期研究机会将增加申请者的研究培训计划。

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.