Short-Term Training Program In Biomedical Sciences

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一个新的申请机构NRSA赞助的培训项目，为印第安纳大学医学院（usm）医学教育早期阶段的学生提供假设驱动的生物医学研究经验。我们的目的是提供一个结构化的研究环境，以吸引医学生对生物医学研究的兴趣，为基础和转化研究经验以及研究伦理教育创造机会。该计划的主要目标是作为培训和招募医学科学家的门户。拟议的计划是基于usm的一个非常成功的指导和培训计划，学术医学学生研究计划（SRPAM）。具有较强学术资历的医学生被选中参加SRPAM，该计划将学生与高素质的教师导师配对，进行为期12周的暑期研究实习，并附带一系列讲座，重点是研究交流和写作，伦理学和转化调查。目前的申请旨在支持每年招收24名学生在该项目中进行基础和临床部门和中心的基础和转化研究。该计划旨在：a)通过挑战学生在实习期间承担独立项目，提高学生对生物医学研究价值的认识；b)大力支持有兴趣从事学术医学事业的学生，为他们提供参加医学博士项目的机会，并协助他们申请HHMI和NIH的研究奖学金。学员将在导师的指导下，在造血、宿主防御和肺生物学、癌症生物学、心血管、糖尿病和医学信息学等领域从事反映学校实力和国际声誉的研究经验。我们项目的优势在于：i)一群非常成功的导师，包括获得校外资助的内科科学家，出色的培训记录和丰富的短期学员经验；Ii)一个杰出的科学环境，以强烈的跨学科精神为特征，并可获得尖端技术和优质资源；Iii)一个支持性的社区和坚实的网络，为学生提供领导和指导的机会；iv)与医学院课程相结合，学生可获得生物医学知识三级能力学分；5)印第安纳大学医学院领导层的明确承诺。该计划的长期目标是通过让学生在他们早期的医学教育中接触以疾病的分子和细胞基础为重点的假设驱动的研究以及临床转化的潜力，来增加全国内科科学家的数量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a new application for an institutional NRSA sponsored training program to provide hypothesis-driven biomedical research experience to students during the early stages of their medical education at Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM). Our purpose is to provide a structured research environment that engages medical students' interest in biomedical research, creating opportunities for basic and translational research experience, and education in research ethics. The main objective of the program is to serve as a portal to train and recruit physician-scientists. The proposed program is based on a highly successful mentorship and training program at IUSM, the Student Research Program in Academic Medicine (SRPAM). Medical students with strong academic credentials are selected for SRPAM, which pairs students with highly qualified faculty mentors for 12 week summer research internships with an accompanying lecture series focused on research communication and writing, ethics, and translational investigations. The current application seeks support to enroll 24 students/year in the program to conduct basic and translational research within the basic and clinical departments and centers at IUSM. The program is designed: a) to increase student awareness of the value of doing biomedical research by challenging students to take on independent projects during the internship; and b) to strongly support students interested in a career in academic medicine by providing access to opportunities in the MD/PhD program and assistance with research fellowship applications to HHMI and NIH. Trainees will engage in mentored research experience in areas that reflect the school's strength and international reputation in hematopoiesis, host defense and pulmonary biology, cancer biology, cardiovascular, diabetes and medical informatics. The strengths of our program are: i) a cadre of highly successful mentors including physician-scientists with extramural funding, outstanding training records and solid experience with short-term trainees; ii) an outstanding scientific environment characterized by an intense interdisciplinary spirit and access to cutting-edge technologies and excellent resources; iii) a supportive community and a solid network providing students with opportunities for leadership and mentoring; iv) integration with the medical school curriculum with student credit for level III competency in biomedical knowledge; and v) an unequivocal commitment from the leadership at the Indiana University School of Medicine. The long term goal of the program is to increase the number of physician scientists nationally by exposing students in their early years of medical education to hypothesis-driven research focused on the molecular and cellular basis of disease and the potential for clinical translation.