Pre-Doctoral Summer Training Program in Auditory Research

描述(由申请人提供)：该申请是由国家康复听觉研究中心(NCRAR)发起的，旨在为全国范围内从所有认证的Au.D.项目中招募的四名博士前研究生提供激动人心的暑期研究体验。NCRAR调查人员使用多学科方法来减少听力残疾。研究项目涉及听力学、心理学、神经科学、神经学、耳鼻喉科和工程学领域的诊断和评估、康复和预防。实验方法的广度，加上对听力受损患者的临床相关重大问题的共同关注，为我们提供了一个机会，提供可能在全国大学和研究机构中独一无二的研究培训。NCRAR由11名研究人员组成，他们拥有经过验证的研究和培训记录，以及强大的内部研究合作历史，所有这些研究人员都位于俄勒冈州波特兰波特兰老兵管理医疗中心的一个设备齐全的中心内。该培训计划的目标是通过为大学Au.D.学生提供一种短期沉浸在临床研究中的机制，来加强和扩大大学Au.D.项目提供的临床听力学培训。希望夏季实习生中的一些人会被转向研究职业的方向所吸引，而另一些人至少会对研究过程产生欣赏。暑期实习生可参加的研究活动将多种多样。学生将被指派一名教师导师，根据学生的兴趣和导师的可用性来选择，并将在主要导师的研究领域内工作。将鼓励实验室之间的互动。教职员工每周将举办研讨会，包括来自波特兰地区其他机构的科学家的演讲，涉及研究伦理和开展研究项目的过程，从设计到出版。受训者将通过口头陈述来结束他们的培训计划，描述他们在暑期的研究。预计该计划的另一个好处是，来自不同大学的学生将有机会相互学习，并开始形成全国性的大学关系，这种关系将持续到他们的职业生涯。相关性：在提供听力学专业博士学位的研究生项目中，有各种各样的培训模式，只有少数几个提供广泛的研究培训。这一点，再加上听力学博士毕业生数量的减少，导致具有培训、愿望和专业知识的学术听力学专家队伍不断减少，他们为大学教职员工提供培训，并延续临床听力学的研究传统。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is an initiative of the National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR) to provide a stimulating summer research experience for four predoctoral graduate students recruited nationally from all accredited Au.D. programs. NCRAR investigators use multidisciplinary approaches to decrease hearing disability. Research programs address diagnosis and assessment, rehabilitation and prevention in areas of audiology, psychology, neuroscience, neurology, otolaryngology, and engineering. The breadth of experimental approaches, coupled with the common focus on clinically-relevant significant problems of hearing-impaired patients provides us an opportunity to offer research training that may be unique within the nation's universities and research organizations. The NCRAR is made up of 11 investigators with proven research and training records as well as a strong history of internal research collaborations, all located within a well-equipped center at the Portland Veteran's Administration Medical Center, Portland, Oregon. The goal of this training program is to enhance and expand the clinical audiology training offered in university Au.D. programs by providing a mechanism for the short term immersion of Au.D. students into clinical research. It is hoped that some of the summer trainees will be attracted to a change in direction into a research career, while others will at least develop an appreciation for the research process. The research activities available to the summer trainees will be varied. Students will be assigned a faculty mentor, selected according to the student's interests and the mentor's availability and will work within the context of the research area of the primary mentor. Inter-laboratory interactions will be encouraged. There will be weekly seminars provided by the faculty, including presentations by scientists from other institutions in the Portland area, involving research ethics and the process of carrying out a research project, from design to publication. Trainees will be expected to end their training program by developing an oral presentation describing their research during the summer. It is anticipated that an additional benefit of this program will be the opportunity for students from different universities to learn from each other and start to form nationwide collegial relationships that will last throughout their careers. Relevance: There is a wide array of training models in place within graduate programs offering the professional doctorate in audiology, with only a few offering extensive research training. This, coupled with a reduction in the number of Ph.D. graduates in audiology, results in an ever-decreasing pool of academic audiologists who have the training, desire, and expertise to staff university faculties and continue the research tradition in clinical audiology.