Intensive Summer Research Training in Emergency Medicine (ISTEM) program

摘要 急诊医学夏季强化研究培训方案在以下方面发挥了重要作用 扩大北卡罗来纳大学临床研究的医学生人数 教堂山(北卡罗来纳州-CH)。该计划的目标是吸引正在崛起的北卡罗来纳大学-CH大学二年级医学生参加 急诊医学与心、肺、血相关课题研究 医生进入了终身的研究生涯。本申请是续期，以继续ISTEM计划， 于2017年获得资金。我们填补了30个职位中的28个(每年约6个)，所有学员都完成了计划。的 28名受训者中，3名是代表不足的少数民族医学生，8名是女性。其中21人 学员在北卡罗来纳大学约翰·B·格雷厄姆学生研究日上展示了海报，4名学员在 美国心脏协会全国会议，并有6篇发表在同行评议的期刊上。这些 数字说明ISTEM项目在头5年取得了成功。我们正在请求国家安全局 心、肺和血液研究所(NHLBI)继续使用ISTEM，每年提供8个短期实习生名额。 该计划的目标如下：目标1.将选定的ISTEM学员与杰出的NIH- 资助的研究导师，他们将提供一个高效和严谨的环境来指导一个夏天 对NHLBI具有重要意义的领域的研究项目；目标2.为ISTEM学员提供形成性 在急诊医学研究的目标、方法和挑战方面的教育经验， 包括关于研究伦理和可再现性的主题；以及目标3。跟踪ISTEM受训人员的结果，以 决定该计划的成功与否，并改进和扩大此次培训机会。培训 该计划将在夏季延长8-12周。受训者将由出版良好的 资助在紧急情况、心血管和肺部健康方面具有专业知识的医生和科学家， 血液和出血性疾病、卫生服务和流行病学。ISTEM项目管理小组将 由两名计划联席主任、一名管理员和一个咨询委员会组成。培训中的关键活动 序列包括通过竞争性申请和审查来确定优秀医学生 过程，研究和手稿写作方面的每周教学研讨会，完成一项研究项目 指导，抽象开发和演示，以及计划评估。新加入此续订申请，我们 将使用研究自我效能量表评估ISTEM提高研究能力的能力，以 评估学员在项目实施前后对研究任务的信心。实习生的成果包括 增加了对研究设计和实施的理解和实践，增加了 导师与学员的关系、完成的演示文稿和出版物，以及增强学员的自我意识 与他们未来的研究目标和兴趣有关。我们相信，ISTEM将提供强大的 为我们的受训人员奠定基础，为推动NHLBI研究的学术生涯奠定基础。

Abstract The Intensive Summer Research Training in Emergency Medicine (ISTEM) program had been instrumental in expanding the number of medical students exposed to clinical research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). The goal of the program is to engage rising second-year UNC-CH medical students in research on topics related to emergency medicine and heart, lung, and blood with the intent of recruiting physicians into a lifelong research career. This application is for a renewal to continue the ISTEM program that was funded in 2017. We filled 28 of our 30 positions (~6 per year) and all trainees completed the program. Of the 28 trainees, 3 were underrepresented minority medical students and 8 were female. Twenty-one of the trainees presented posters at the UNC-CH John B. Graham Student Research Day, 4 presented posters at American Heart Association national meetings, and 6 have published in peer reviewed journals. These numbers speak to the success of the ISTEM program in its first 5 years. We are requesting from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to continue ISTEM with 8 short-term trainee slots per year. The aims of the program are the following: Aim 1. To match selected ISTEM trainees to outstanding, NIH- funded research mentors who will provide a productive and rigorous environment for conducting a summer research project in an area of importance to NHLBI; Aim 2. To provide ISTEM trainees with a formative educational experience in the goals, methods, and challenges of research in emergency medicine settings, including topics on research ethics and reproducibility; and Aim 3. To track the outcomes of ISTEM trainees to determine the success of the program and to improve and expand this training opportunity. The training program will extend over 8-12 weeks during the summer. Trainees will be mentored by well-published and funded physicians and scientists with expertise in emergent conditions, cardiovascular and pulmonary health, blood and bleeding disorders, health services, and epidemiology. The ISTEM program administrative team will consist of two program co-directors, an administrator, and an advisory committee. Key activities in the training sequence include the identification of top medical students through a competitive application and review process, weekly didactic seminars in research and manuscript writing, completion of a research project with a mentor, abstract development and presentation, and program evaluation. New to this renewal application, we will evaluate ISTEM’s ability to increase research competencies using the Research Self-Efficacy Scale to assess the trainees’ confidence in research tasks before and after the program. Trainee outcomes consist of increased understanding and practice of research design and implementation, increased experience with mentor-mentee relationships, completed presentations and publications, and increased trainee self-awareness related to their future research goals and interests. We are confident that ISTEM will provide a strong foundation for our trainees to build towards academic careers that will advance NHLBI research.