Clinical & Basic NIDDK Research Training for Medical Students

这项申请是为了延续德克萨斯大学西南医学学院的机构国家研究服务奖 该中心将允许医学生在基础和临床生物医学研究方面进行短期培训 NIDDK的重点领域。 德克萨斯大学西南医学中心的医学生研究有着悠久而丰富的传统。因为它的 这些活动始于20世纪50年代末的S，涵盖了广泛的研究机会， 都是由州、私人和联邦基金资助的。已经得到支持的研究活动已经 包括基础、临床和应用领域。在过去的十年里，这个项目有了很大的增长， 与德克萨斯大学现有设施和师资的出现和发展相称 西南医学中心校区。 此申请寻求继续在上一个资助期内建立的培训计划，该计划将 重点关注医学生在临床和基础研究方面的正规培训和发展。 在前期经验的基础上，我们将继续发展和加强短期 为德克萨斯大学西南医学中心的医学生提供机会的培训计划 以及整个美国。根据我们在鉴定过程中积累的经验 以及学生和导师的配对，我们预计这些经验将进一步有助于丰富 德克萨斯大学西南医学中心和美国其他地区学生的研究背景。 本申请中描述的项目将聘用西南大学现有的教师和项目， 都集中在NIDDK感兴趣的领域。此外，我们相信这一方案将成为一个焦点 进一步丰富德克萨斯大学西南分校和参与机构的医学生研究活动，并将 加强NIDDK资助的研究的现有要素。这些活动将有助于提高对以下问题的认识 可用于培训医学生的其他机会(例如多丽丝·杜克临床 医学生研究奖学金、Sarnoff心血管研究奖学金)并加强 通过此类计划的赞助来寻求培训的学生的素质。

This application is to continue an institutional National Research Service Award at UT Southwestern Medical Center that will permit short-term training for medical students in basic and clinical biomedical research in areas of NIDDK focus. Medical student research at UT Southwestern Medical Center has a long and rich tradition. Since its inception in the late 1950's, these activities have encompassed a wide range of research opportunities that have been funded by state, private, and federal funds. Research activities that have been supported have included basic, clinical and applied areas. This program has increased substantially in the past decade, commensurate with the emergence and development of facilities and faculty available on the UT Southwestern Medical Center campus. This application seeks to continue a training program established during the last funding period that will focus on the exposure and development of medical students to formal training in clinical and basic research. Based on experiences gained during the prior period, we will continue to develop and enhance a short-term training program designed to provide opportunities to medical students at UT Southwestern Medical Center and throughout the United States. Building upon the experience that we have amassed in the identification and pairing of students and mentors, we anticipate that these experiences will further serve to enrich the research background of students at UT Southwestern Medical Center and in other parts of the United States. The program described in this application will employ the existing faculty and programs at Southwestern that are focused in areas of NIDDK interest. Furthermore, we believe that this program will serve as a focal point to further enrich medical student research activities at UT Southwestern and participating institutions and will enhance existing element of NIDDK-funded research. Such activities will serve to heighten the awareness of additional opportunities that are available for the training of medical students (e.g. the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowships for Medical Students, Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Fellowships) and to enhance the quality of students seeking training though the auspices of such programs.