UCLA Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) Program

在此申请中，加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）的大卫Geffen医学院与加州大学弗朗西斯科分校医学院（UCSF），科罗拉多大学丹佛分校（UCD）和华盛顿大学（UW）合作，寻求继续支持医学生的正式8-12周的老龄化研究培训计划： - 在培训初期，让他们接触正在进行的研究，并得到成功的老龄化研究人员的指导 - 鼓励他们考虑追求，并计划随着时间的推移，在NIA重要领域的研究生涯 - 增加从事对NIA重要的研究领域的医生科学家的人数。 以加州大学洛杉矶分校为核心，我们的四个机构特别适合实现这些目标。我们所有的四个项目都是：1）由约翰·A。哈特福德基金会作为卓越中心;和2）优秀的教师谁进行国家情报局资助的老龄化研究;和3）经验培训他人进行老龄化研究。为了实现上述目标，我们将依靠我们在过去15年中成功使用的方法来确定研究导师，将医学生与这些导师相匹配，监控学生的研究进展，在需要时促进这一进展，教授基本的一般研究技能（包括负责任的研究行为），并提供一个论坛，用于介绍学生的研究和讨论想法。此外，我们将提供有关临床老年医学，老龄化职业选择的常见主题的指导，以及观察和参与各种环境中老年患者临床护理的机会。 通过实现本提案中概述的目标，该计划将鼓励和支持医学生对老龄化研究和老年医学的兴趣，并培养一批能够解决与NIA研究优先事项相关的关键问题的新的医生科学家。该计划还旨在加强参与机构的老龄化研究计划，并促进UCLA，UCSF，UCD和UW之间在老龄化医学生研究培训方面的合作。

In this application, the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) is partnering with the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF), the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD), and the University of Washington (UW) to seek continued support for a formal 8-12 week program of training in aging research for medical students to: --Expose them, early in their training, to ongoing research with mentorship from successful researchers in aging --Encourage them to consider pursuing, and to plan for over time, a research career in areas important to the NIA --Increase the pool of physician scientists engaged in areas of research important to the NIA. With UCLA as the core site, our four institutions are particularly well suited to reach these objectives. All four of our programs have: 1) been funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation as Centers of Excellence; and 2) outstanding faculty who conduct NIA-funded research in aging; and 3) experience training others to conduct aging research. To meet the objectives outlined above, we will rely on methods we have been using successfully over the past 15 years to identify research mentors, match medical students with these mentors, monitor students' research progress, facilitate this progress when needed, teach essential general research skills (including the responsible conduct of research), and provide a forum for presentation of students' research and discussion of ideas. In addition, we will offer instruction on common topics in clinical geriatrics, career options in aging, and the opportunity to observe and to participate in the clinical care of geriatric patients in a variety of settings. By accomplishing the aims outlined in this proposal, this program will encourage and support medical students' interest in aging research and geriatrics, and to develop a new cadre of physician scientists who will be able to address key issues related to the research priorities of the NIA. This program will also aim to enhance the research programs in aging at the participating institutions and to foster collaboration in medical student research training in aging among UCLA, UCSF, UCD and UW.