Short-Term Training Students in Environmental Health Sciences

描述(由申请人提供) 这项建议旨在继续为医科学生提供暑期研究培训计划，以了解环境和职业健康科学。西奈山医学院环境和职业医学部在过去20年里一直在NIEHS的资助下赞助这样的项目，并提交了未来5年继续资助的提案。 研究培训计划的主要目标是让高能力的医学生沉浸在与环境和职业健康科学有关的丰富研究环境中，向他们介绍该领域，最终目标是提高医学生对该领域的兴趣。实现这一广泛目标的具体目标包括：(A)确定和招收具有重大学术潜力的合格医学生，特别是少数群体的学生，参加环境和职业健康科学的暑期研究体验；(B)创造一套有意义的研究体验，让学生进行批判性思维并承担研究项目的责任；(C)为参与研究的医学生提供广泛的学习环境，使学生能够将其具体研究项目与临床职业医学、毒理学、流行病学、预防医学和公共政策方面的相关问题联系起来；以及d)通过评估学生的满意度以及他们在与环境健康科学相关的知识和技能方面的变化，以及通过跟踪学生在参加培训计划后的几年来评估他们对职业的选择，来评估该计划的短期和长期影响。 为了实现这些目标，医学生将在西奈山医学院预防医学系教员导师的密切监督下进行个人研究项目。导师和研究项目将来自环境健康科学的一系列学科，包括流行病学、临床职业医学、毒理学和分子生物学。此外，学生还将参加一系列研究研讨会和临床病例报告。在项目结束时，所有学生都被要求写下他们研究经验的总结，作为他们整体评估的一部分。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) This proposal seeks to continue a summer research training program for medical students to learn about the environmental and occupational health sciences. The Division of Environmental and Occupational Medicine of Mount Sinai School of Medicine has sponsored such a program for the past twenty years with funding from NIEHS and is submitting this proposal for continued funding for the next 5 years. The primary goal of the research training program is to immerse highly competent medical students in a rich research setting pertaining to environmental and occupational health sciences to introduce them to the field, with the ultimate goal of increasing interest in the field among medical students. Specific objectives to achieve this broad goal, include: a) the identification and enrollment of qualified medical students with significant academic potential, especially students of minority groups, into a summer research experience in the environmental and occupational health sciences; b) the creation of a set of meaningful research experiences in which the students engage in critical thinking and assume responsibility in research projects; c) the provision of a broad learning context for participating medical students to enable the students to draw links between their specific research projects and related issues in clinical occupational medicine, toxicology, epidemiology, preventive medicine and public policy; and d) the assessment of the short-term and long-term impact of the program by assessing student satisfaction and changes in their knowledge and skills relevant to the environment health sciences, and by tracking students in the years following their participation in the training program to assess their choices of careers. To achieve these objectives, medical students will work on individual research projects under the close supervision of faculty mentors at the Department of Preventive Medicine of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The mentors and research projects will be drawn from a spectrum of disciplines in the environmental health sciences, including epidemiology, clinical occupational medicine, toxicology, and molecular biology. In addition, the students will attend a research seminar series and attend clinical case presentations. At the end of the program, all students are required to write a summary of their research experience as part of their overall evaluation.