Biostatistics with a Focus on Cardiovascular Health and Minority Populations

描述（由申请人提供）： 我们的T-15 SIBS匹兹堡计划是一个为期6周的合作生物统计学住宅夏季培训计划，旨在鼓励高级本科生/应届大学毕业生考虑生物统计学/统计学的研究生培训。我们的计划目标是定量导向谁是学术生物医学研究感兴趣的学生。匹兹堡SIBS强调了在心血管健康和少数群体多学科研究背景下生物统计学的协作性质。具体目标是：向受训者介绍在令人信服的科学问题和研究数据背景下的基本生物统计方法;向受训者传授自己解决这些问题所需的分析和计算机技能;在协作小组环境中积极让受训者参与个人项目;并教育受训者了解生物统计思维的作用 在生物统计领域的合作研究和进一步培训/就业机会。我们专注于设计，理论，应用通信和计算。我们计划再培训60名学员（每年20名）。 SIBS匹兹堡是一个4学分的计划，包括一个综合的3学分课程介绍生物统计学，流行病学和遗传学和1学分的合作生物统计学研讨会/独立项目。 该计划由具有临床试验，自适应设计，药物安全，卫生服务研究，风险因素减少，少数民族健康，统计遗传学和调查抽样等领域专业知识的合作生物统计学家授课。我们的合作者在几个大型NHLBI和其他NIH资助的心血管疾病，肺炎，糖尿病和慢性肾病试验，以及丙型肝炎和口腔健康的人群为基础的研究，作为临床导师参与。在计算机实验室里，学员学习如何根据他们对NHLBI资助的巴里研究和Virahep-C研究数据的分析，通过撰写扩展摘要来交流结果。在研讨会部分，学员根据我们合作者提供的数据集开发个人项目。每年年底，利用持续的反馈和焦点小组对该方案进行评估，并进行相应的修订。40名受训人员参加了SIBS匹兹堡计划的前两年; 17名大学毕业生中有10名目前在研究生院，16名现任大四学生中有9名申请了研究生院。匹兹堡SIBS成功地鼓励博士前参与者继续生物统计学和相关领域的研究生培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our T-15 SIBS Pittsburgh program is a 6-week residential summer training program in collaborative biostatistics designed to encourage advanced undergraduate students/recent college graduates to consider graduate training in biostatistics/statistics. Our program targets quantitatively oriented students who are interested in academic biomedical research. SIBS Pittsburgh highlights the collaborative nature of biostatistics within the context of multidisciplinary research studies in cardiovascular health and minority populations. The specific aims are to: introduce trainees to basic biostatistical methods in the context of compelling scientific questions and research data; teach trainees the analytic and computer skills necessary to address these questions themselves; actively involve trainees in individual projects within collaborative group settings; and educate trainees about the role of biostatistical thinking in collaborative research and opportunities for further training/employment in the field of biostatistics. We focus on design, theory, application communication, and computation. We plan to train a total of 60 additional trainees (20 per year). SIBS Pittsburgh is a 4-credit program comprised of an integrated 3-credit course in Introductory Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Genetics and a 1-credit Collaborative Biostatistics Seminar/Independent Project. This program is taught by collaborative biostatisticians with expertise in the areas of clinical trials, adaptive designs, medication safety, health services research, risk factor reduction, minority health, statistical genetics, and survey sampling. Our collaborators on several large NHLBI- and other NIH-funded trials in cardiovascular disease, pneumonia, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease, and population-based studies of Hepatitis-C and oral health, participate as clinical mentors. In the computer laboratory, trainees learn to communicate results by writing extended abstracts based on their analyses of data from the NHLBI-funded BARI study and the Virahep-C study. In the seminar component, trainees develop individual projects based on datasets available from our collaborators. The program is evaluated using ongoing feedback and focus groups at the end of each year, and revised accordingly. Forty trainees have participated in the first 2 years of the SIBS Pittsburgh program; 10 of the 17 who have graduated from college currently are in graduate school, and 9 of the 16 current seniors have applied to graduate school. SIBS Pittsburgh has successfully encouraged pre-doctoral participants to pursue graduate training in biostatistics and related fields.