Short-term Training of Students in Health Professional Schools

 描述（由申请人提供）：我们要求继续在纽约州立大学视光学学院的T35培训计划，已经存在了30多年。该计划的目的是通过参加由我们杰出的研究教师的十五名成员之一指导的研究项目的全职十周，向验光学生介绍基础，翻译和临床验光和视觉科学研究。培训学院的研究项目包括细胞生物学，眼部药理学，视觉心理物理学，计算建模，视觉神经科学，光学和临床视觉科学。除了研究，学员将参加研究座谈会，研究生研讨会，期刊俱乐部， 以及科学道德和负责任的研究行为课程。预计这一经验将为学员提供技术和解决问题的技能，这将激励他们将视力研究作为他们未来职业生涯的一个重要组成部分。在最有利的情况下，积极性高的学员将选择进入合并的O.D.继续他们的研究。M.S.或者吸毒过量博士视觉科学的研究生课程，从而获得临床和研究学位。培训将在50，000平方米内进行。英尺最先进的基础、转化和临床研究 在学院的空间。学院还维护计算机、电子、图像和广泛的图书馆设施，免费提供给学员。学员将包括来自美国任何一所验光学院的验光学生，他们已经完成了专业课程的第一年或第二年，并取得了很高的学术成就。培训计划致力于为学员提供临床医生/研究人员界面，这是必不可少的t带来最新的科学发现的临床。这种经验旨在为学生提供知识和技能，并在以后成为医生，以继续研究并为患者提供最新和最佳的视力治疗和护理。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We request a continuation of the T35 Training Program at the State University of New York College of Optometry that has existed for over 30 years. The purpose of the program is to introduce optometry students to basic, translational, and clinical optometric and vision science research by participating full-time for ten weeks in a research project mentored by one of the fifteen members of our distinguished research faculty. Research programs of the training faculty include cell biology, ocular pharmacology, visual psychophysics, computational modeling, visual neuroscience, optics, and clinical vision science. In addition to research, trainees will attend research colloquia, graduate seminars, journal clubs, and a course in Scientific Ethics and the Responsible Conduct of Research. It is expected that this experience will provide trainees with both technical and problem solving skills that will inspire them to include vision research as one important component of their future career as optometrists. In the most favorable scenario, highly motivated trainees will choose to continue their research by entering the combined O.D.-M.S. or O.D.-Ph.D. graduate programs in Vision Science and thereby obtain both a clinical and a research degree. The training will be conducted within the 50,000 sq. ft. of state-of-the-art basic, translational, and clinical research space at the College. The College also maintains computer, electronic, graphic, and extensive library facilities that are freely available to the trainees. Trainees will consist of optometry students from any of the Colleges of Optometry in the US who have completed their first or second year of the professional program and have shown high academic achievement. The Training Program strives to provide trainees the clinician/researcher interface that is essential t bringing the latest scientific discoveries to the clinic. This experience is aimed at providing students, and later to be doctors, the knowledge and skillset to both continue in research and to provide the latest and most optimal vision treatment and care to the patient.