Short-Term Research Training of Veterinary Students in Wisconsin

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案的具体目的是积极吸引兽医医学学生参与已建立的，资金充足的研究项目，并增加积极参与研究的兽医数量。该项目还将帮助招收对该项目有特殊兴趣的兽医学生在威斯康星大学攻读兽医硕士学位，增加在威斯康星大学攻读研究培训的少数民族学生的数量，向兽医学生介绍研究职业，并为参与研究的学生介绍道德、负责任的研究行为和成功的研究职业技能。该计划的首要目标是向兽医医学学生介绍研究，并为他们提供至少如何识别对动物和/或人类的健康和福利具有重要意义的问题的工作知识，制定一个假设来测试所选问题，确定和验证适当的技术来进行研究，并分析和报告（口头和书面）数据。在为期10周的暑期项目中，学员将参加定期安排的实验室会议和每周专门为学生举办的研讨会。受训者将在夏季兽医研究学者研讨会（通常是每年8月举行的Merial兽医学者计划研讨会）上展示他们的研究成果，或者在威斯康星大学兽医学院举行的研讨会上展示他们的研究成果。威斯康星大学，特别是兽医学院，为兽医学生的短期研究培训提供了理想的环境。我们预计，拟议的项目将顺利整合目前的培训项目，为威斯康星州兽医学生的研究培训提供持续的支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Specific Aims of this proposal are to actively engage veterinary medical students in established, well-funded research programs and to increase the number of veterinarians actively engaged in research. This program will also help recruit veterinary medical students with specific interest in this program to pursue the DVM at the University of Wisconsin, increase the number of minority students pursuing research training at the University of Wisconsin, inform veterinary medical students of careers in research, and provide participating students with an introduction to ethics, responsible conduct of research, and skills for successful careers in research. The over-arching objective of this program is to introduce veterinary medical students to research and provide them with at least a working knowledge of how to identify a problem of significance to the health and welfare of animals and/or humans, develop a hypothesis to test the question selected, identify and validate appropriate techniques to pursue the research, and analyze and report (orally and in writing) data. Trainees will participate in regularly scheduled laboratory meetings and weekly seminars conducted specifically for students in the 10 week summer program. Trainees will either present the results of their research at the summer veterinary research scholars symposium (typically the Merial Veterinary Scholars Program Symposium held annually in August) or present their research at seminars held at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine. The University of Wisconsin in general, and the School of Veterinary Medicine in particular, has an ideal environment to support short-term research training of veterinary students. We anticipate that the proposed program will integrate smoothly with current training programs to provide a continuum of support for research training of veterinary students in Wisconsin.