Short-Term Research Training for Optometry Students

描述(由申请者提供)：印第安纳大学验光学院的18名视力科学家寻求为验光学院的学生提供短期研究培训。长期目标是培养这些学生对研究的持久兴趣，这将激励他们攻读视觉科学硕士和博士学位，并最终在与健康相关的视觉研究领域取得职业生涯。学生们由视觉科学家指导，这些科学家由NEI或与健康相关的研究领域的行业资助。要求为视觉科学家实验室为期8周的夏季研究的10名短期实习生提供支持。在验光学校，学生通常在一年级结束时参加这个项目。潜在的研究培训领域包括：眼表问题；离子在角膜内的传输和代谢活动的调节；空间信息的皮质处理包括弱视；婴儿视觉系统的发育；调节和眼运动；制定与视网膜神经节细胞有关的视力测试；青光眼；视网膜功能；隐形眼镜佩戴问题；眼睛的流行病学；适应性光学；近视；眼睛的光学像差；以及小梁网的病理生理学。研究生水平的课程让学员接触研究中的伦理问题，每周的研讨会为学生提供讨论他们的研究的机会。学员可以在暑期培训结束后的学年里继续他们的研究兴趣，参加访问学者的每周会议，并参加科学会议，在导师的指导下在这些会议上介绍他们的研究。我们鼓励学员在暑假结束后继续参加课程，并将他们的数据作为硕士学位论文的一部分。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Eighteen vision scientists at the School of Optometry, Indiana University seek to provide short-term research training to students in optometry school. The long-term objective is to develop in these students an abiding interest in research that will motivate them to study for the 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 who are funded by the NEI or by industry in health-related areas of research. Support is requested for ten short-term trainees for eight weeks of summer research in the laboratories of vision scientists. Students enter the program usually at the end of the first year in optometry school. The areas of potential research training include: ocular surface problems; regulation of ion transport and metabolic activity in the cornea; cortical processing of spatial information including amblyopia; development of the visual system in infants; accommodation and eye movements; development of tests of vision in relation to retinal ganglion cells; glaucoma; retinal function; problems of contact lens wear; epidemiology of the eye; adaptive optics; myopia; optical aberrations of the eye; and pathophysiology of the trabecular meshwork. A graduate level course exposes trainees to ethical issues in research, and a weekly seminar provides students the opportunity to discuss their research. Trainees are able to continue their research interest during the academic year after the summer training by participating in weekly meetings of visiting scholars, and by attending scientific meetings at which they present their research under the guidance of their mentors. Trainees are encouraged to continue their participation in later summers and to incorporate their data as part of the thesis for the M.S. degree.