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指导临床和基础科学研究项目的整合，补充和替代医学（ICAM）相关项目为医学生培训提供机会。医学研究所发现，缺乏受过充分多学科培训的医生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ICAM疗法使用领域的开放性，以及医学生对ICAM研究的兴趣日益增加，该项目的最终目标是使学生对学术ICAM职业和翻译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研究并是ICAM实践者 匹兹堡大学的教授可以指导广泛的基础和临床研究项目、研究人群和科学技术。目标是1）一个为期10周的指导研究项目，学生与导师密切合作，使他们接触到ICAM研究的相关性和兴奋性。2)研究基础的教学培训计划，提供批判性文献综述，分析思维，参与ICAM治疗的经验以及设计和实施成功研究项目所需的ICAM基本原则的理解的工具3）概念开发，研究设计，数据收集和分析，手稿准备，和抽象的演示文稿，以提供工具进行研究和学习有关学术生涯。 公共卫生相关性：学生的项目可能会有实质性的科学影响，通过阐明病理生理学终点，导致在未来研究的相关临床试验的设计，提高强度。通过对个人进行ICAM疗法的培训，我们希望不仅能增加使用ICAM疗法的从业者人数，而且还能提高这一领域的研究能力，这将有望产生长期的影响。

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.