Summer Training Program in Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目将为可能选择从事基础或临床神经科学研究的医学生提供研究培训机会。该项目将为潜在的早期临床科学家提供暑期研究奖学金。除了提供动手实验经验外，该计划还将告知学生临床神经科学职业，并教育他们研究支持的模式。培训将在夏季进行为期2个月的全日制培训。该计划旨在鼓励竞争激烈的学生在医学培训期间攻读博士学位，从而进入医学生学者计划或MD/PhD计划。实习生将根据他们在医学院第一学年结束时提交的申请被选中。受训者将被分配到项目参与者之一的实验室，在那里他们将进行指导研究。导师的选择是基于他们在临床神经科学相关领域的活跃研究项目，特别是中风、创伤和神经退行性疾病。这些实验室共同提供广泛的研究机会，从基本的分子生物学/生化方法到基于社区的人类研究项目。在第一个夏季研究项目结束时，学生们将在秋季医学学生研究研讨会上展示他们的研究成果，这也将包括MSTP项目的学生的研究报告。入选的学生将被鼓励在获得临床学位之前的几年中进行多次短期研究培训。这种任命可以是连续的，也可以在“非季度”期间进行。将酌情鼓励受训者在国家会议上介绍他们的成果，并将支助学生参加这些会议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This program will provide research-training opportunities for medical students who may elect to pursue careers in basic or clinical neurological sciences research. The program will provide summer research fellowships to potential clinician scientists early in their education. In addition to providing hands-on laboratory experience, the program will inform students of clinical neuroscience careers, and educate them in patterns of research support. Training will be on a full-time basis for 2 months in the summer. The program is designed to encourage highly competitive students to enter the Medical Student Scholars Program or MD/PhD program by pursuing a Ph.D. during their medical training. Trainees will be selected based on an application filed initially at the end of their first year of medical school. Trainees will be assigned to a laboratory of one of the participants in the program, where they will carry out mentored research. Preceptors have been selected based on their active research programs in areas related to the clinical neurosciences, especially stroke, trauma, and neurodegenerative disorders. Together, the laboratories provide a broad range of research opportunities ranging from basic molecular biological/biochemical approaches through community-based human research programs. At the end of the first summer's research program, the students will present the results of their research at a fall medical student research symposium, which will also involve research presentations by students in the MSTP program. Students selected for appointment will be encouraged to obtain multiple periods of short-term research training during the years leading to their clinical degree. Such appointments may be consecutive or during "off-quarter" periods. Where appropriate, trainees will be encouraged to present their results at national meetings, and support will be provided for students to attend such meetings.