Workshop: Doctoral Consortium at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) 2010 Conference

临床模拟是在不危及患者安全的情况下教授医疗专业人员的前沿技术。由于计算机图形学、触觉学、生物工程、人机交互和决策科学的巨大进步，我们正处于临床模拟领域即将发生的革命的关键。专注于这一专业领域的新研究人员将推动这场革命。“医学与虚拟现实”（MMVR）系列会议成立于1992年，现已发展成为一年一度的国际活动，旨在促进新兴的以数据为中心的医疗保健和教育技术。会议独立于任何专业协会或机构；论文由科学家和医生组成的委员会在同行评议的基础上选出（http://www.nextmed.com/mmvr_committee.html），会议论文集由IOS Press （http://www.iospress.nl）出版。与会者通常是计算机科学家和工程师、内科医生和外科医生、医学教育者和学生、军事医学专家和生物医学未来学家。这使得观众对前沿科学感兴趣，并促进临床模拟领域的交叉学科研究。这笔资金用于支持一个由大约12-15名来自美国和国外的有前途的博士生组成的研究联盟（研讨会），以及杰出的研究人员。该活动是首次与MMVR相关的此类活动，将与将于2010年1月14日至16日在加利福尼亚州纽波特海滩举行的MMVR18会议同时举行。研讨会的目标是通过提供关于研究环境及其国际层面的具体反馈和更广泛的建议，指导学生完成研究论文。研讨会将在主要会议开始前整整一天举行。学生们将展示和讨论他们的研究，并从一个由大约6名领域领导者组成的小组中获得建设性的反馈，该小组的成员包括大约相同数量的杰出研究人员和经验丰富的从业人员，他们代表了多个专业和国家。至少有一名小组成员将与行业有密切关系，因此学生可以更好地了解商业视角。作为一项实验性活动，研讨会组织者计划通过开发一个专门的网站和一个列表服务来支持学生和他们在会议之外的学术追求，将研讨会参与者联系在一起，这样他们就可以继续通过分享材料和有趣的文献，讨论共同关注的问题等进行互动。因此，该研讨会将促进青年科学家网络的发展，组织者希望这将成为未来合作的基础。更广泛的影响：本次研讨会将产生技术和社会影响。从技术角度来看，它将有助于培训和指导下一代研究人员，他们将解决临床模拟社区面临的无数研究问题。计算和技术研究在需要更高效的医疗保健系统方面发挥着重要作用。临床模拟已成为医疗保健行业培训下一代医疗专业人员的主要工具，使医疗保健机构能够做出复杂的决策，并提供最先进的临床和门诊服务。培养计算机科学及相关领域的博士生进行必要的临床模拟基础研究，对于将这些基础研究成功转化为医疗保健领域使用的工具和技术至关重要。讲习班将在短期内产生影响，为年轻的研究人员提供与该领域的领导者互动和磨练技能的途径；小组成员将为学生提供及时的反馈，帮助他们塑造未来的研究方向。从社会的角度来看，研讨会将进一步实现设计以人为中心的系统的目标，使患者安全，为研究奠定基础，从一开始就有基础和复杂的设计，以解决生物医学计算社区面临的关键研究挑战。

Clinical simulation is emerging at the forefront of technologies for teaching medical professionals without endangering patient safety. Because of tremendous strides in computer graphics, haptics, bioengineering, human computer interaction, and decision sciences, we are at the crux of an impending revolution in the field of clinical simulations. This revolution will be fueled by new researchers that focus in this area of specialization. The "Medicine Meets Virtual Reality" (MMVR) conference series, established in 1992, has evolved into an annual international event that promotes emerging data-centered technologies for medical care and education. The conference is independent of any professional association or institution; papers are selected on the basis of peer review by a committee of scientists and physicians (http://www.nextmed.com/mmvr_committee.html), and the conference proceedings are published by IOS Press (http://www.iospress.nl). Conference attendees are typically a mixture of computer scientists and engineers, physicians and surgeons, medical educators and students, military medicine specialists, and biomedical futurists. This makes for an audience that is interested in cutting edge science and promotes cross-cutting interdisciplinary studies in the area of clinical simulation. This is funding to support a research consortium (workshop) of approximately 12-15 promising doctoral students from the United States and abroad, along with distinguished research faculty. The event, the first of its kind to be associated with MMVR, will be held in conjunction with the MMVR18 conference which will take place January 14-16, 2010, in Newport Beach, California. The goal of the workshop is to guide students with their research theses, by providing specific feedback as well as broader advice on the research environment and its international dimensions. The workshop will take place on a single full day before the main conference begins. Students will present and discuss their research and get constructive feedback from a panel of about 6 leaders in the field, whose members include approximately equal numbers of prominent research faculty and experienced practitioners, and who represent multiple specialties and countries. At least one panelist will have a close relationship with industry, so students can acquire a better understanding of the commercial perspective. As an experimental activity, the workshop organizers plan to support the students and their academic pursuits beyond the conference, by developing a dedicated website along with a listserv that will link workshop participants together so they can continue to interact by sharing materials and interesting literature, discussing common concerns, etc. Thus, the workshop will promote development of a network of young researchers, which the organizers hope will serve as the basis for future collaborations.Broader Impacts: This workshop will have both technical and societal impact. From a technical perspective, it will serve to train and guide the next generation of researchers, who will address the myriad research questions facing the clinical simulation community. Computing and technology research has a major role to play in the need for a more efficient healthcare system. Clinical simulation has emerged as a major tool for the healthcare industry in training the next generation of medical professionals, enabling healthcare institutes to make complex decisions and provide state of the art clinical and ambulatory services. Training doctoral students in computer science and related areas to conduct the necessary basic research in clinical simulation is critical to the successful translation of this basic research to tools and techniques used in the healthcare arena. The workshop will have impact in the short term by providing young researchers with an avenue to interact with leaders in the field and hone their skills; panelists will provide timely feedback to students and help them shape their future research directions. From a societal perspective, the workshop will further the goals of designing human centered systems that enable patient safety, by laying the foundation for research that is grounded and intricately designed from its inception to address key research challenges facing the biomedical computing community.