Iowa Summer Institute for Biostatistics (ISIB)

描述(由申请人提供)： 这是爱荷华大学向美国国立卫生研究院(NIH)国家心脏、肺和血液研究所(NHLBI)提出的申请，以回应RFA-HL-13-015生物统计夏季培训研究所的申请。该申请面向爱荷华大学生物统计系，从2013年到2015年每年招收18名不同的学员。招聘对象将面向没有研究生课程或没有接受过广泛的统计学或生物统计学本科教育的高校本科生。将特别努力纳入在生物医学研究中代表性不足的群体的受训人员，目标是包括大多数少数族裔学生。爱荷华州夏季生物统计研究所(ISIB)将为期7周：将通过实际生物医学研究的基于案例的教学；计算机实验室培训；以及临床和转化研究的丰富。受训者还将进行生物医学研究的指导性研究项目，导师是生物统计学教师导师，通常是生物医学研究员。该项目将基于对原始生物医学数据的分析和/或生物医学实验的设计。期末研究项目的陈述将在会议结束时举行的专题讨论会上进行。受训者将与生物统计学家、其他生物医学研究人员和研究生互动。如何申请研究生院和准备一份好的申请将提供指导。这一拟议计划的目标是增加进入生物统计学研究生课程的本科生人数，并建立进入生物统计学研究生学习的新渠道。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a application to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), from the University of Iowa, in response to RFA-HL-13-015 for a Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics. The application is for the University of Iowa (UI) Departmnt of Biostatistics to recruit a diverse group of 18 trainees every year from 2013 to 2015. Recruitment will be targeted to undergraduates from colleges and universities without graduate programs or without extensive undergraduate education in statistics or biostatistics. Special efforts will be made to include trainees from groups underrepresented in biomedical research and the goal is to include a majority of minority students. The Iowa Summer Institute in Biostatistics (ISIB) will be 7 weeks: instruction will be through case based instruction of real biomedical research; computer laboratory training; and clinical and translational research enrichment. Trainees will also undertake a mentored research project on biomedical research with a biostatistics faculty mentor and typically a biomedical researcher. The project will be based on the analysis of original biomedical data and/or or the design of a biomedical experiment. Presentation of the final research project will be at a symposium at the end of the session. Trainees will interact with biostatisticians and other biomedical researchers and graduate students. Guidance on how to apply to graduate school and prepare a good application will be provided. The goal of this proposed program is to increase the number of undergraduates who enter graduate programs in Biostatistics and to establish new pipelines into biostatistics graduate studies.