Short Term Research Training

描述（由申请人提供）： 位于查佩尔山的北卡罗来纳州大学提出了一项短期研究培训计划（STRT），该计划将为32名本科医学生提供3个月的研究经验，这些学生已经完成了至少一年的医学院学习，目前正在入学。该计划的短期目标是为医学生提供一个有意义的研究经验，在他们的医学院生涯的早期。为了实现这一目标，该计划的目标是：（1）每年选择32名对研究事业感兴趣的医学生，并将投入8-12周的研究项目。(2)将STRT学者与精心挑选的优秀教师导师相匹配，他们将作为榜样，帮助培养STRT学生对研究的兴趣;（3）为STRT参与者提供必要和可选的教学方法，以增加研究经验的可能性，从而为学术医生的职业生涯提供桥梁;（4）跟踪STRT的结果，以确定该计划的成功。该计划的长期目标是增加致力于以下领域研究事业的医学生人数：消化系统疾病，肝脏疾病，营养失调，肥胖，糖尿病，内分泌失调，代谢疾病，肾脏疾病，泌尿系统疾病和血液系统疾病。 该计划利用了独特的和相当大的研究机构的优势，包括来自四个不同的卫生事务学校谁位于彼此非常接近的调查人员。这样的安排创造了一种研究环境，有望为终身研究生涯提供动力。需要医学科学家。在培训的最初几年提供有意义的研究经验可能是我们最好的希望。该计划旨在满足这一需求。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) proposes a Short Term Research Training Program (STRT) that will provide a 3-month research experience for 32 undergraduate medical students who have completed at least one year of medical school and are currently enrolled. The short term goal of the program is to provide medical students with a meaningful research experience early in their medical school career. In order to achieve that goal the aims of the program are: (1) To select 32 medical students per year who have an interest in a research career and will dedicate 8-12 weeks to work on a research project.; (2) To match the STRT Scholars to carefully selected, outstanding faculty mentors who will serve as role models and help nurture the interest of STRT students in research; (3) To provide STRT participants with required and optional didactics that will increase the likelihood of a research experience that will provide a bridge to a career as an academic physician; (4) To track the outcomes of STRT to determine the success of the program. The long-term goal of the UNC STRT Program will be to increase the number of medical students committed to a research career in the following areas: digestive diseases, liver disease, nutritional disorders, obesity, diabetes, endocrine disorders, metabolic diseases, kidney diseases, urologic diseases and hematologic disorders. The program takes advantage of unique and considerable institutional strengths in research, including investigators from four different health affairs school who are located in close proximity to each other. Such an arrangement creates the kind of research environment that will hopefully provide the motivation for a lifelong research career. There is a need for physician scientists. Providing a meaningful research experience in the early years of training may be our best hope. The proposed program is designed to answer this need.