Short-Term Research Training For Optometry Students

描述(由申请者提供)：印第安纳大学的14名视力科学家，寻求为视光学院的学生提供短期研究培训。长期目标是培养这些学生对研究的持久兴趣，这将激励他们攻读视觉科学硕士和博士学位，并最终在与健康相关的视觉研究领域取得职业生涯。学生由视觉科学家指导，并开展积极的视觉科学研究项目。相关实验室的研究资金包括来自NEI的7个R01，来自NIBIB的1个R01，来自NEI的两个多中心生物工程研究伙伴关系赠款(基于R01)，来自NEI的1个P30核心赠款，以及来自该行业的多个其他赠款。要求为12名短期受训人员提供支助，以便在视觉科学家实验室进行为期三个月的夏季研究。拥有本科学位的学生通常在验光学院第一年结束时进入该项目。潜在的培训领域包括：光学：包括像差和视网膜成像；生物学：包括分子、生化机制和药理学；疾病：包括眼表缺陷、老年性黄斑变性、青光眼和发育问题；视觉：包括敏感度、发育和高阶处理。三门不同的研究生水平课程将使学员在参加短期培训计划之前，在春季期间接触流行病学、研究设计和基础统计学，作为视光课程的一部分。 暑期培训期间的科学研究c)暑期培训期间的每周研讨会，使学生有机会参与对同行评审的论文的批判性分析，并讨论他们自己的研究项目，最后在暑期结束时介绍他们的工作。鼓励学员在暑期培训后继续他们的研究兴趣，在导师的实验室继续他们的研究，参加每周一次的内部教师、研究生和访问学者的研讨会，并参加科学会议，在他们的导师的指导下展示他们的研究。还鼓励学员通过特殊学位项目继续参与，将他们的数据和分析纳入硕士学位论文的一部分，通过在第二到第四年的额外努力，可以在不增加费用的情况下实现这一目标。 公共卫生相关性：临床医生-科学家在将基础研究转化为临床实践方面发挥着重要作用。这项资助申请将为视光专业的学生提供短期研究培训，最终目标是通过一个特殊的硕士学位计划激励他们考虑在视觉科学方面进行更高水平的研究培训，最终引导他们进入视觉研究领域。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Fourteen vision scientists at Indiana University, seek to provide short-term research training to students in the school of Optometry. The long-term objective is to develop in these students an abiding interest in research that will motivate them to pursue M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Vision Science, and ultimately lead to careers in health-related vision research. Students are mentored by vision scientists with active Vision Science research programs. The research funding of the involved laboratories includes seven R01s from NEI, one R01 from NIBIB, two multicenter Bioengineering Research Partnership grants from NEI (R01 based), one P30 core grant from NEI and multiple other grants from the Industry. Support is requested for twelve short-term trainees for three months of summer research in the laboratories of vision scientists. Students with an undergraduate degree enter the program usually at the end of the first year in Optometry school. The potential areas of training include: Optics: including aberrations and retinal imaging, Biology: including molecular, biochemical mechanisms and pharmacology, Disease: including ocular surface defects, age Related macular degeneration, glaucoma and developmental problems, Vision: including sensitivity, development, and higher order processing. Three different graduate level courses will expose trainees to a) Epidemiology, research design and basic statistics as part of the optometry curriculum during the spring prior to entering the short-term training program b) Ethical issues in scientific research during the summer training c) Weekly seminars during the summer training that provides students the opportunity to participate in the critical analysis of peer reviewed papers and discuss their own research projects terminating with a presentation of their work at the end of the summer. Trainees are encouraged to continue their research interest following their summer training by continuing their research in the mentor's lab and attending weekly seminars of in-house faculty, graduate students and visiting scholars, and by attending scientific meetings at which they present their research under the guidance of their mentors. Trainees are also encouraged through a special degree program to continue their participation by incorporating their data and analysis as part of a thesis for an M.S. degree which by additional efforts during their second through fourth year can be achieved without additional costs. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Clinician-scientists play an important role in translating basic research into clinical practice. This grant application will provide short-term research training t optometry students with the ultimate goal of motivating them through a special Masters Degree program to consider pursuing higher level research training in vision science that will ultimately lead them to careers in vision research.