Short-Term Training for Students in the Health Professions

描述（由申请人提供）：该培训计划的目的是继续培养医学科学家，他们将促进对人类健康和疾病的理解，并加强有效临床护理的提供。爱荷华州医学生研究计划通过促进创新，专业的科学互动，指导，研究伦理和沟通培训以及对自己和同行科学工作的批判性方法的发展来实现这一目标。爱荷华州卡弗医学院（CCOM）有着悠久的历史，通过40多年前开始的成功和不断发展的研究培训计划支持医学生的研究。自1980年以来，NIH一直为该项目提供资金。在培训补助金的赞助下，学生有机会在医学院第一年之前或之后的夏季参加他们选择的为期12周的研究项目。学生从卡弗医学院的20个临床和6个基础科学部门，或公共卫生学院，药学院或文科和理科学院中选择一名导师。超过150名教师导师与短期项目的想法被列在一个可搜索的在线数据库中，学生可以从该数据库中按部门，研究类型或关键字排序选项。学生需要提交一份提案，由CCOM研究委员会进行竞争性审查。学生申请按收到的分数排序，成绩最好的学生被选入国家卫生研究院的32项培训津贴，另外50项津贴由中央委员会、个别部门和其他来源资助。该计划将学生暴露在整个研究过程中，从撰写研究提案，到与他们的导师合作，以摘要的形式提交他们的研究成果，并在每年的医学生研究日介绍他们的研究。这种经验使学生能够掌握科学方法的应用，以前相关实验工作的批判性评估以及数据分析的统计方法等技能。与此同时，他们获得知识和发展相关的特定研究项目的技能，同时与教师的榜样和导师密切合作。该计划导致了大量的学生在全国会议上的演讲，并在同行评审的期刊上发表了许多文章。人们对整个医学院继续参与研究的兴趣一直很浓厚，这是一项针对持续致力于研究的CCOM学生的荣誉计划。毕业生反复引用夏季研究奖学金的经验作为他们选择专业或决定在学术医学中心进行基础，临床或转化研究的基础。该计划的长期影响是在全国范围内传播一批医生，他们在职业生涯早期就对基于团队的科学表示赞赏，使他们能够做出基于证据的决策并提高医疗质量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aim of this training program is to continue to produce physician-scientists who will advance understanding of human health and disease and enhance delivery of effective clinical care. The Iowa Medical Student Research Program achieves this goal through fostering innovation, professional scientific interactions, mentorship, training in research ethics and communication and development of a critical approach to one's own and peers' scientific work. The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine (CCOM) has a long history supporting medical student research with a successful and growing research- training program that began over 40 years ago. The NIH has continuously funded the program since 1980. Under the auspices of the training grant, students are given the opportunity to be involved in a research project of their choosing for 12 weeks in the summer preceding or following the first year of medical school. Students choose a mentor from any of 20 clinical and 6 basic science departments in the Carver College of Medicine, or the Colleges of Public Health, Pharmacy, or Liberal Arts and Sciences. Over 150 faculty mentors with ideas for short-term projects are listed on a searchable online database from which students may sort options by department, type of research or by keyword. Students are required to submit a proposal, which is competitively reviewed by the Research Committee of the CCOM. Student applications are rank- ordered by the score received and those with the best scores are chosen for the 32 NIH training stipends with another 50 stipends funded by the CCOM, individual departments and other sources. The program exposes the students to the entire research process, from writing a research proposal, to working with their mentor to submit their research accomplishments in the form of an abstract and presentation of their research at the annual Medical Student Research Day. This experience permits students to acquire skills such as application of scientific methods, critical evaluation of previous related experimental work, and statistical approaches to data analysis. At the same time, they acquire knowledge and develop skills related to a specific research project while working closely with a faculty role model and mentor. The program has led to a substantial number of student presentations at national meetings and numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals. There has been steady interest in continuing involvement in research throughout medical school on the Research Distinction Track, an honors program for CCOM students with a sustained commitment to research. Graduates repeatedly cite the summer research fellowship experience as the basis for their choice of specialty or decision to conduct basic, clinical or translational research as faculty in academic medical centers. The long-term impact of this program is the nationwide dissemination of a cadre of physicians, who developed an appreciation for team-based science early in their career, equipping them to make evidence-based decisions and advance healthcare quality.