Short Term Research Training Grant for Medical Students - Resubmission - 1

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的T35计划将每年为最多24名纽约大学医学院学生提供财政支持，在医学院的第一个夏天花9周时间从事niddk相关研究。核心运作目标是：(1)为学生提供一份预选的优秀导师和项目名单；(2)创建一个选拔过程，以识别高素质的学生，并优化作品发表的概率；(3)在学员和参与导师之间建立凝聚力；(4)获取可用于判断项目成功与否的数据，并对项目进行修改，使其更加成功。为了实现这些目标，我们彻底地重新设计了我们的程序，仔细地纳入了我们以前提交的审稿人的意见。内部顾问委员会（IAB）将在导师、项目和学生的选择上向项目主任（PD）提供建议，外部顾问委员会（EAB）每年将对项目进行一次审查。每年，IAB和PD都会选择经验丰富和成功的导师，并向他们征求与niddk相关的项目，以提供给学生。导师将从我们所有的基础科学和临床部门挑选一组。所选的导师必须具有出色的指导记录，并且必须从事与NIDDK任务高度相关的工作。学生们将在一个信息环节中解释该计划，并将发布已批准的导师和项目名单。导师将面试学生，并为每个项目选择一名主要学生（如果没有合适的学生，导师不需要接受任何学生）。被选中的学生将在导师的指导下撰写一份提案，并提交给PD和项目工作人员进行最终批准。为了进一步提高所选项目发表的可能性，学生将在开始暑期项目之前提交一份更新的研究计划，其中将包括成就和数据生成的时间表。在项目结束时，学生将被询问他们的出版计划，并将被要求在IAB和EAB参加的秋季NIDDK T35研究会议上提交摘要。在暑期项目期间，学生和教师将通过每周的会议来建立凝聚力。选定的教师将讨论他们的研究和职业，在平行的一系列会议上，学生将展示期刊文章或正在进行的作品。为了跟踪项目的成功，学生和导师将在夏季结束时询问关键研究能力的进展情况，学生将评论他们进一步研究和学术生涯的计划。后续调查问卷将在实习年度结束时、毕业时和毕业后每年发给学生。后续的问卷调查将追踪他们的出版记录、他们的研究和学术生涯计划，以及他们对T35对他们职业生涯影响的不断演变的印象。为了最大限度地获取信息，申请和问卷将通过学校的电子门户系统（称为“ePortfolio”）收集，学生们已经使用该系统来记录学业进展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed T35 program will provide financial support annually for up to 24 NYU medical students to spend nine weeks during the first summer of medical school working on NIDDK-related research. The core operational objectives are: (1) to provide students with a pre-selected list of excellent mentors and projects, (2) to create a selection process to identify highly qualified students and optimize the probability that work will lead to publication, (3) to create cohesion among the trainees and the participating mentors, and (4) to acquire data that can be used to judge the success of the program and to modify the program to make it more successful. To accomplish these objectives we have thoroughly redesigned our program, carefully incorporating comments by the reviewers of our previous submission. An internal advisory board (IAB) will advise the Program Director (PD) on selection of mentors, projects and students, and once per year an external advisory board (EAB) will review the program. Each year the IAB and PD will select experienced and successful mentors and solicit from them NIDDK-related projects to be offered to students. Mentors will be a select group drawn from all our basic science and clinical departments. Selected mentors must have an excellent mentoring record and must be doing work highly relevant to the NIDDK mission. An information session for students will explain the program and the list of approved mentors and projects will be disseminated. Mentors will interview students and select a leading student for each project (the mentor is not required to accept any student if none are judged suitable). Selected students will write a proposal with the mentor's guidance and submit to the PD and program staff for final approval. To further enhance the probability that the selected projects will lead to publication, students will submit an updated research plan just prior to starting the summer project that will include a timeline for accomplishments and data generation. At the conclusion of the project students will be queried about their plans for publication and will be required to submit an abstract at a fall NIDDK T35 research meeting that will be attended by the IAB and EAB. Cohesion will be created through weekly meetings of students and faculty during the summer program. Selected faculty will discuss their research and careers, and at a parallel set of meetings students will present either journal articles or works-in-progress. To track the success of the program, students and mentors will be queried at the end of the summer regarding progress in the key research competencies and students will comment upon their plans for further research and academic careers. Follow up questionnaires will be sent to students at the end of the clerkship year, at graduation, and yearly after graduation. The follow up questionnaires will track their publication record, their plans for research and academic careers, and their evolving impression of the T35's influence on their careers. To maximize information retrieved, applications and questionnaires will be collected through the school's electronic portal system (called "ePortfolio") that the students already use to record academic progress.