LSUHSC Summer Internship Program

描述(申请人提供)：摘要为了有效地满足对内科科学家的需求，我们提出了一项创新的短期研究培训计划，面向LSUHSC-New Orleans的预科和入学一年级的医学生。这个暑期实习计划将支持五名学生，旨在培养他们对研究职业的兴趣。我们在三个英才中心中确定了至少28名从事心肺疾病领域工作的教师导师。学生们将在夏季与路易斯安那州立大学的教职员工一起进行为期10周的临床或基础科学研究密集练习。那些参加第二个暑期的学生(预科学生)将作为新参与者的同伴导师，从而为该计划提供重要的指导成分。这个暑期实习计划的目标是：1)为医学生提供实际的研究经验；2)促进一对一的研究指导；3)增加LSUHSC的女性和少数族裔医学生对研究的参与；4)为暑期实习生提供在学术医学领域取得成功所需的职业技能。除了研究经验外，学生还参加每周一次的研讨会和一系列教学培训：实验室安全、负责任的研究行为、HIPPA、撰写摘要和展示研究结果(口头和海报演示)。在暑期结束时，学生将进行口头或海报演示；他们还将被支持在国家或地区会议上展示他们的数据。我们将努力招募至少20%的代表不足的少数族裔参与者，反映路易斯安那州立大学医学院班级的人口统计数据。为了确定该计划对个人参与者的影响，暑期实习生将完成目标实现量表和研究自我效能感(RSE)调查。RSE是职业选择和表现的主要预测者。我们还将对整个计划进行形成性和总结性评估，以确定可能需要做出哪些改变。最后，我们将与学生事务处合作，实施职业跟踪系统，以衡量他们暑期经历对职业选择和研究参与的长期影响，这将量化该项目的长期影响。该计划将培养一代新的内科研究人员，他们准备在路易斯安那州进行生物医学研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Abstract In order to effectively address the need for physician scientists, we propose an innovative, short-term research training program for pre-matriculating and matriculated 1st year medical students at LSUHSC-New Orleans. This Summer Internship Program (SIP) will support five students and is designed to cultivate their interest in research careers. We have identified at least 28 faculty mentors within three Centers of Excellence working in the areas of heart or lung diseases. Students will conduct intensive hands on clinical or basic science research for 10 weeks in the summer, working with LSU faculty. Those students who participate for a second summer (pre-matriculed students) will act as peer mentors to incoming participants, thus providing an important mentoring component to the program. The goals of this Summer Internship Program are: 1) to provide medical students with hands on research experience; 2) to facilitate one-on-one research mentoring; 3) to increase the participation in research by women and minority medical students at LSUHSC; 4) to provide summer interns with the career skills they will need to succeed in academic medicine. In addition to their research experience, students also attend a weekly seminar and a didactic training series on: lab safety, responsible conduct of research, HIPPA, writing abstracts and presenting research results (oral and poster presentations). At the end of the summer, students will present either an oral or a poster presentation; they will be supported to present their data at national or regional meetings as well. We will work to recruit at least 20% underrepresented minority participants, reflecting the demographics of the LSU medical school class. In order to determine the impact the program has on individual participants, summer interns will complete Goals Attainment Scales as well as Research Self Efficacy (RSE) surveys. RSE is a major predictor of career choice and performance. We will also conduct formative and summative evaluations concerning the entire program, in order to determine what changes may be needed. Lastly, working with the Office of Student Affairs, we will implement a career tracking system to measure the long-term impact of their summer experience on career choices and research participation, which will quantify the long-term impact of this program. This program will create a whole generation of new physician researchers who are prepared to conduct biomedical research in Louisiana.