Student Research Training in Integrative, Complementary, and Altenative Medicine

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请的目的是通过综合、补充和替代医学（ICAM）相关项目的指导临床和基础科学研究项目，为医学生提供培训机会。医学研究所发现缺乏受过足够多学科训练的内科科学家来进行重要的研究。鉴于ICAM领域令人兴奋的发现，PM&R作为一个领域对ICAM疗法的使用的开放性，以及医学生对ICAM研究的兴趣日益增加，本项目的最终目标是使学生对ICAM学术职业和转化ICAM科学感兴趣。来自PM&R、心理学、精神病学、医学、妇产科、骨科和护理等广泛学科的核心学术教师，他们进行ICAM研究并成为ICAM实践者

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this application is to provide opportunities for medical student training through mentored clinical and basic science research projects in Integrative, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine (ICAM) related projects. The Institute of Medicine identified a shortage of physician scientists with sufficient multidisciplinary training to carry out important research. Given the exciting discoveries in the field of ICAM, the openness of PM&R as a field to the use of ICAM therapies, and the increasing interest of medical students in ICAM research, the ultimate goal of this project is to interest students in academic ICAM careers and translational ICAM science. Core academic faculty members from broad disciplines of PM&R, Psychology, Psychiatry, Medicine, OBGYN, Orthopaedics, and Nursing who perform ICAM research and who are ICAM practitioners at the University of Pittsburgh are available to mentor a wide array of basic and clinical research projects, study populations, and scientific techniques. The objectives are 1) A 10 week mentored research project in which students work closely with mentors to expose them to the relevance and excitement of ICAM research. 2) A didactic training program in research fundamentals that provides tools for critical literature review, analytic thinking, experience participating in ICAM therapies, and understanding of basic principles of ICAM that are needed to design and conduct successful research projects 3) guided training in concept development, study design, data collection and analysis, manuscript preparation, and abstract presentation to provide tools for performing research and learning about academic careers. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Student projects may have substantial scientific impact by elucidating pathophysiologic endpoints that lead to improved strength in the design of relevant clinical trials for future studies. Through training individuals in ICAM therapies, it is hoped that we will not only increase the number of practitioners using ICAM therapies, but also improve the research capacity in this field, which would be expected to have long lasting effects.