Clinical Summer Immersion for Biomedical Engineering PhD Students

描述(由申请者提供)：我们建议在康奈尔大学威尔医学院开设一个暑期临床沉浸项目，将伊萨卡工程学院校区的生物医学工程(BME)博士生从伊萨卡工程学院校区带到纽约市医学院校区，在研究生培训的第一年和第二年之间的夏季进行专门的密集临床暴露。每个学生都将参加生物伦理学讲座，跟踪临床医生，并在指定的临床医生导师的指导下参与临床相关研究。这个临床暑期沉浸课程旨在将BME与医疗保健和社会联系起来，并引导和提高学生对医学的研究兴趣。它将立即影响他们的博士论文研究，增加医学良知，并影响他们长期的职业生涯，以改善医疗保健。 公共卫生相关性：我们建议将生物医学工程专业学生的实验室工作与医疗保健联系起来，通过让他们沉浸在一个主要的医学中心来跟踪医生并参与临床研究，帮助他们的发现获得最好的机会，使他们的临床医学受益。当BME学生看到患者的痛苦时，他们意识到开发医疗技术解决方案来解决医疗保健问题的紧迫性和重要性；当学生亲眼目睹他们的临床医生导师诊断和治疗患者时，学生欣赏医疗技术在医学上的效用；当学生看到患者和临床环境的局限性时，他们形成一种观点，什么样的技术解决方案在临床上是可行的；当学生参与临床研究时，他们欣赏医疗技术的影响

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose a summer clinical immersion program at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University that brings Biomedical Engineering (BME) PhD students from Ithaca Engineering College Campus to New York City Medical College Campus for dedicated intensive clinical exposure in the summer between their first and second year of graduate training. Each student will take bioethics lectures, shadow clinical practitioners and participate in clinical related research under the direction of an assigned clinician mentor. This clinical summer immersion is designed to connect BME to healthcare and society and to steer and enhance students' research interests towards medicine. It will immediately impact their PhD thesis research by adding a medical conscience and influence their long term career towards improving healthcare. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: We propose to connect Biomedical Engineering Students' laboratory work with healthcare and help them give their discoveries the best chance to benefit clinical medicine by immersing them in a major medical center to shadow medical practitioners and participate in clinical research. When BME students see patients' suffering, they appreciate the urgency and importance of developing medical technology solutions to healthcare problems; when students watch in person their clinician mentor diagnosing and treating patients, students appreciate the utility of medical technology in medicine; when students see the limitations of the patients and the clinical environment, they develop a perspective on what kinds of technology solutions can be clinically workable; when students participate in clinical research, they appreciate the impact of medical technology