Short-term Training of Students in Health Professional Schools

 描述(由申请人提供)：我们要求在纽约州立大学视光学院继续T35培训计划，该培训计划已经存在了30多年。该计划的目的是通过全职参与由我们15名杰出研究人员之一指导的研究项目，向视光学生介绍基础、转换和临床验光和视觉科学研究。培训教师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，学员还将参加研究座谈会、研究生研讨会、期刊俱乐部、 以及一门科学伦理和负责任的研究行为的课程。预计这一经历将为学员提供技术和解决问题的技能，从而激励他们将视觉研究作为其未来验光师职业生涯的一个重要组成部分。在最有利的情况下，积极性很高的学员将选择继续他们的研究，进入视觉科学专业的外科学-硕士或外科学-博士研究生课程，从而同时获得临床和研究学位。培训将在5万平方米内进行。英国《金融时报》最先进的基础研究、翻译研究和临床研究 学院里的空间。学院还拥有计算机、电子、图形和广泛的图书馆设施，供受训人员免费使用。学员将由来自美国任何一所视光学院的视光学生组成，他们完成了专业课程的第一年或第二年，并表现出较高的学术成就。培训计划努力为学员提供临床医生/研究人员之间的接口，这对于将最新的科学发现带到临床是必不可少的。这种体验的目的是为学生以及后来成为医生的学生提供知识和技能，以便继续进行研究，并为患者提供最新和最理想的视力治疗和护理。

 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.