Medical Student Research Program in Eye Health and Disease

 描述（由申请人提供）：为了应对NEI重点关注的医疗保健挑战，我们必须培养和建立医生科学家队伍，使来自美国各个领域的医学生成为明天的研究人员。在过去的三十年里，犹他州大学医学院（UUSOM），其中包括眼科和视觉科学系和莫兰眼科中心，已经建立了一个充满活力的研究社区，解决了与眼睛相关的健康问题的全方位。教师的赠款资助的研究跨越了T1-T4转化科学的连续体，并得到了许多机构计划的支持。大量的医学生对眼睛健康感兴趣，29%的学生定期参加医学生运营的眼科兴趣小组的月度会议，2015年毕业班的8%参加眼科住院医师项目。此外，教师在成功指导学员，帮助建立医生科学家，科学头脑的医生，劳动力方面有丰富的经验。因此，UUSOM是为医学生提供优秀短期研究经验的理想场所。 新的医学生眼睛健康和疾病研究计划（MSRP-EHD）的目标和目的是：目标：培养医学生对进行或合作进行与眼睛相关的研究的终身兴趣，同时培养他们的创造性和批判性思维技能。目标1每年吸引6名医学生参与犹他州大学令人兴奋的基础、临床和转化科学发现。学员将在医学院的第一年和第二年之间参加为期11周的暑期研究经验。目标二：通过一个创新的课程，刺激学员的创造性和批判性思维能力的发展，这将是夏季经验的一部分。目标3：鼓励每个受训者发现他或她作为医生最感兴趣的研究类型。 15名教师导师已同意参加该计划。由国家教育研究院资助的研究员和高级管理人员课程委员会成员组成的内部督导委员会将向首席研究员/课程主任提供意见。多种评估策略将被用来提供形成性的反馈，以改善计划，以及跟踪学生的职业轨迹。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): To meet the healthcare challenges on which the NEI focuses, it is essential that we nurture and build the physician-scientist workforce, preparing medical students from all areas of the US to become tomorrow's researchers. Over the past three decades the University of Utah School of Medicine (UUSOM), which includes the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and the Moran Eye Center, has built a dynamic research community that addresses the full range of eye-related health issues. Faculty members' grant-funded research spans the continuum of T1-T4 translational science and is supported by numerous institutional programs. A large number of our medical students are interested in eye health, as evidenced by 29% regularly participating in monthly meetings of the medical student-run Ophthalmology Interest Group and 8% of the 2015 graduating class matching in Ophthalmology residency programs. In addition, faculty members have extensive experience in successfully mentoring trainees, helping to build the physician-scientist, and scientifically minded physician, workforce. Thus, the UUSOM is an ideal location to offer outstanding short-term research experiences for medical students. The goal and objectives of the new Medical Student Research Program in Eye Health and Disease (MSRP- EHD) are to: GOAL: Ignite in medical students a life-long interest in conducting or collaborating in research related to the eye, while also building their skills in creative and critical thinking. Objective 1 Engage 6 medical students/year in the exciting foundational, clinical and translational science discoveries taking place at the University of Utah. Trainees will participate in a mentored, 11-week summer research experience between their first and second years of medical school. Objective 2: Stimulate the development of trainees' creative and critical thinking skills through an innovative course that will be part of the summer experience. Objective 3: Encourage each trainee to discover the type of research he or she is most interested in pursuing as a physician. Fifteen faculty mentors have agreed to participate in the program. The PI/PD will be advised by an internal Steering Committee of NEI-funded investigators and SOM Curriculum Committee members. Multiple evaluation strategies will be used to provide formative feedback for program improvement as well as tracking students' career trajectories.