SHORT-TERM TRAINING FROM STUDENTS IN HEALTH PROF SCHOOLS

描述(由申请人提供) 该培训计划为各级医学生(从一年级到大四学生)提供参加为期三个月的研究计划的机会。这段经历虽然短暂，但却可以实现很多目标。首先，它将允许学生获得重要的技能，如对以前相关实验工作的批判性评估，科学方法的应用，数据分析的统计方法，以及研究结果的展示。其次，它将允许学生在一个研究领域获得知识，并发展一些与项目相关的特定技能。第三，它将允许学生与教师资助人发展密切的工作关系，后者也是一名充满活力的内科科学家和榜样。第四，这种最初的研究经历可能会鼓励学生在学术医学和生物医学研究方面追求职业生涯。 短期研究培训计划的学生通过在已建立的跨学科实验室进行导师指导的研究来沉浸在科学过程中，这些实验室的目标是寻求连接科学和医学的研究。因此，许多学生参与了跨学科的研究项目，并涉及基础科学系和临床科学系的教师导师。 NIH资助的跨部门研究中心提供学生研究机会，包括：艾兹海默氏症中心、心血管中心、囊性纤维化中心、糖尿病和内分泌学中心、基因治疗中心、环境呼吸道疾病中心、急性肺损伤中心、黄斑变性中心、环境健康科学研究中心和精神健康临床研究中心。所有实习生都将参加每周一次的核心暑期研究研讨会项目。他们还将在医学生研究日展示他们的研究成果，并鼓励他们参加医学生研究俱乐部的活动。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The training program provides medical students at all levels (freshmen through seniors) an opportunity to participate in a research program for a three-month period. This experience, while brief, can accomplish many goals. First, it will permit the student to acquire important skills, such as critical evaluation of previous related experimental work, application of the scientific method, statistical approaches to data analysis, and presentation of research results. Second, it will allow the student to gain knowledge in an area of research and to develop some specific skills related to a project. Third, it will alllow the student to develop a close working relationship with a faculty sponsor, who is also a dynamic physician-scientist and role model. Fourth, this initial resaerch experience may encourage the student to pursue a career in academic medicine and biomedical research. Short-Term Research Training Program students are immersed in the scientific process by performing mentor-directed research in established, interdisciplinary laboratories whose goal is research that seeks to bridge science and medicine. Accordingly, many students become involved in research projects that corss disciplines and involve faculty mentors from both basic science and clinical science departments. Interdepartmental, NIH-funded research centers offering student research opportunities include: the AIzheimer's Disease Center, the Cardiovascular Center, the Cystic Fibrosis Center, the Diabetes and Endocrinology Center, the Center for Gene Therapy, the Center for Environmental Airway Disease, the Acute Lung Injury Center, the Center for Macular Degeneration, the Environmental Health Science Research Center, and the Mental Health Clinical Research Center. All trainees will participate in a weekly core summer research seminar program. They will also present their research at Medical Student Research Day, and be encouraged to participate in Medical Student Research Club activities.