Short-Term Research Training For Optometry Students

描述（由申请人提供）：十四视觉科学家在印第安纳州大学，寻求提供短期研究培训的学生在学校的视光学。长期目标是培养这些学生对研究的持久兴趣，激励他们攻读硕士学位和博士视觉科学学位，并最终导致在健康相关的视觉研究的职业生涯。学生由视觉科学家指导，积极开展视觉科学研究项目。参与实验室的研究资金包括来自NEI的7个R01，来自NIBIB的1个R01，来自NEI的2个多中心生物工程研究合作伙伴赠款（基于R01），来自NEI的1个P30核心基金和来自行业的多个其他赠款。要求为12名短期受训人员提供支助，让他们在视觉科学家的实验室进行为期三个月的夏季研究。具有本科学位的学生通常在验光学校的第一年结束时进入该课程。潜在的培训领域包括：光学：包括像差和视网膜成像，生物学：包括分子，生化机制和药理学，疾病：包括眼表缺陷，年龄相关的黄斑变性，青光眼和发育问题，视力：包括敏感性，发育和高阶处理。三个不同的研究生水平的课程将暴露学员a）流行病学，研究设计和基本统计学作为验光课程的一部分，在春季进入短期培训计划之前B）道德问题， c）夏季培训期间的每周研讨会，为学生提供参与同行评审论文的批判性分析的机会，并讨论他们自己的研究项目，并在夏季结束时介绍他们的工作。鼓励学员继续他们的夏季培训后，他们的研究兴趣，继续在导师的实验室研究，并参加内部教师，研究生和访问学者的每周研讨会，并通过参加科学会议，他们在他们的导师的指导下提出他们的研究。通过一个特殊的学位课程，还鼓励学员继续参与，将他们的数据和分析作为硕士论文的一部分。通过第二年至第四年的额外努力，可以在不增加费用的情况下达到这种程度。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Fourteen vision scientists at Indiana University, seek to provide short-term research training to students in the school of Optometry. The long-term objective is to develop in these students an abiding interest in research that will motivate them to pursue M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Vision Science, and ultimately lead to careers in health-related vision research. Students are mentored by vision scientists with active Vision Science research programs. The research funding of the involved laboratories includes seven R01s from NEI, one R01 from NIBIB, two multicenter Bioengineering Research Partnership grants from NEI (R01 based), one P30 core grant from NEI and multiple other grants from the Industry. Support is requested for twelve short-term trainees for three months of summer research in the laboratories of vision scientists. Students with an undergraduate degree enter the program usually at the end of the first year in Optometry school. The potential areas of training include: Optics: including aberrations and retinal imaging, Biology: including molecular, biochemical mechanisms and pharmacology, Disease: including ocular surface defects, age Related macular degeneration, glaucoma and developmental problems, Vision: including sensitivity, development, and higher order processing. Three different graduate level courses will expose trainees to a) Epidemiology, research design and basic statistics as part of the optometry curriculum during the spring prior to entering the short-term training program b) Ethical issues in scientific research during the summer training c) Weekly seminars during the summer training that provides students the opportunity to participate in the critical analysis of peer reviewed papers and discuss their own research projects terminating with a presentation of their work at the end of the summer. Trainees are encouraged to continue their research interest following their summer training by continuing their research in the mentor's lab and attending weekly seminars of in-house faculty, graduate students and visiting scholars, and by attending scientific meetings at which they present their research under the guidance of their mentors. Trainees are also encouraged through a special degree program to continue their participation by incorporating their data and analysis as part of a thesis for an M.S. degree which by additional efforts during their second through fourth year can be achieved without additional costs.