Alpert Medical School Summer Research Program

描述（由申请人提供）：这是阿尔珀特医学院暑期研究计划（AMSSRP）的第一次更新申请。AMSSRP的总体目标是为医学生提供在布朗大学教师的指导下获得指导研究经验的机会。指定的教师培训师是研究计划的主要研究者，重点是心血管，肺和血液疾病和/或疾病结局和预防的分子基础和病理学。目前的计划旨在为10名刚刚完成第一年医学培训的医学生提供为期10周的夏季研究体验，其中包括协作，多学科，指导研究项目，教学培训和职业发展活动，以增强他们的理解，并为他们提供实践经验，作为医生科学家的职业生涯。AMSSRP旨在让学生接触到医生科学家在转化研究中所发挥的关键作用，并激励这些学生走上探索和发现的职业道路。AMSSRP将继续有效地利用阿尔珀特医学院（AMS）的学术集中计划来招募，培训和跟踪参与者，从而提供重要的机构支持。学术集中计划是一门选修课程，为学生提供在整个四年医学院连续期间完成特定研究领域的大量学术工作的机会。最重要的是，该计划提供了与布朗大学教师3年的纵向指导经验。预计AMSSRP参与者参与夏季研究经验，参与学术集中计划，以及布朗大学教师的指导将增加学生对学术医学职业的承诺和准备。NIH一直将转化和“从实验室到临床”的研究作为优先事项。然而，NIH对生物医学基础研究支持的增加与发现有效治疗或诊断方法以对抗人类疾病的增加并不相关。这种差异被认为部分是由于从事研究职业的医生数量减少，这种下降可能是由于缺乏导师，医学院教育成本上升以及认为医生科学家不像医院医生那样受到高度重视。AMSSRP旨在通过将医学生与从事尖端研究的成功和活跃的科学家导师合作，并使他们接触到与心血管，肺和血液健康和疾病相关的生物医学研究发现的兴奋来消除这种趋势。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is the first renewal application of Alpert Medical School Summer Research Program (AMSSRP). The overall goal of the AMSSRP is to provide medical students with the opportunity to have a mentored research experience under the guidance of Brown University faculty. Designated faculty trainers are the principal investigators for research programs focused on the molecular basis and pathology of cardiovascular, pulmonary, and blood diseases and/or disease outcomes and prevention. The current program is designed to offer ten medical students, who have just completed their 1st year of medical training, a 10 week summer research experience that includes a collaborative, multidisciplinary, mentored research project, didactic training, and career development activities to enhance their understanding, and give them the hands-on experience, of a career as a physician-scientist. The AMSSRP is geared to expose students to the critical role played by physician-scientists in translational research and to inspire these students to embark on this career path of exploration and discovery. The AMSSRP will continue to effectively use the Scholarly Concentrations Program at the Alpert Medical School (AMS) to recruit, train, and track the participants, thus providing significant institutional support. The Scholarly Concentrations Program is an elective course of study that provides students with the opportunity to complete substantial scholarly work in a particular area of study during the entirety of the four year medical school continuum. Most importantly, this program provides a 3-year longitudinal mentoring experience with Brown University faculty. It is anticipated that the involvement of AMSSRP participants in the summer research experience, involvement in the Scholarly Concentrations Program, and mentorship by Brown University faculty will increase the students' commitment to and preparation for a career in academic medicine. NIH has consistently made translational and 'bench-to-bedside' research a priority. However, the increase in NIH support of biomedical basic research has not correlated with an increase in the discovery of efficacious therapies or diagnostics to battle human diseases. This disparity is thought to be due in part to the decrease in the number of physicians that have pursued a research career, a decline that may result from a lack of mentorship, rising costs of medical school education, and a perception that physician scientists are not as highly regarded as physicians in the hospital setting. The AMSSRP serves to dispel this trend by partnering medical students with successful and active scientist mentors engaged in cutting edge research and exposing them to the excitement of biomedical research discoveries related to cardiovascular, pulmonary and blood health and diseases.