Alpert Medical School Summer Research Program

描述(申请人提供)：这是阿尔伯特医学院暑期研究项目(AMSSRP)的第一次续签申请。AMSSRP的总体目标是为医学生提供在布朗大学教职员工的指导下获得指导研究经验的机会。指定的教员培训人员是专注于心血管、肺部和血液疾病的分子基础和病理以及/或疾病后果和预防的研究项目的主要调查人员。目前的项目旨在为刚刚完成第一年医学培训的10名医学生提供为期10周的暑期研究体验，其中包括协作、多学科、有指导的研究项目、教学培训和职业发展活动，以加深他们对医生-科学家职业生涯的理解，并给予他们实践经验。AMSSRP旨在让学生接触到内科科学家在翻译研究中所扮演的关键角色，并激励这些学生走上探索和发现的职业道路。AMSSRP将继续有效地利用阿尔伯特医学院(AMS)的学术集中计划来招募、培训和跟踪参与者，从而提供重要的机构支持。学术集中计划是一门选修课，为学生提供在四年医学院的整个学习过程中完成特定研究领域的大量学术工作的机会。最重要的是，该项目为布朗大学的教职员工提供了为期3年的纵向指导经验。预计AMSSRP参与者参与暑期研究体验，参与学术集中项目，以及布朗大学教职员工的指导将增加学生对学术医学职业生涯的承诺和准备。美国国立卫生研究院一直将翻译性研究和“床边”研究作为优先事项。然而，国立卫生研究院对生物医学基础研究的支持的增加并没有与发现有效的治疗或诊断方法来对抗人类疾病的增加相关。这种差异被认为在一定程度上是由于从事研究事业的医生数量减少，这可能是因为缺乏指导，医学院教育成本上升，以及人们认为医生科学家在医院环境中不像医生那样受到高度重视。AMSSRP旨在消除这一趋势，方法是将医学生与从事尖端研究的成功和活跃的科学家导师合作，并让他们接触到与心血管、肺和血液健康和疾病相关的生物医学研究发现的兴奋。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is the first renewal application of Alpert Medical School Summer Research Program (AMSSRP). The overall goal of the AMSSRP is to provide medical students with the opportunity to have a mentored research experience under the guidance of Brown University faculty. Designated faculty trainers are the principal investigators for research programs focused on the molecular basis and pathology of cardiovascular, pulmonary, and blood diseases and/or disease outcomes and prevention. The current program is designed to offer ten medical students, who have just completed their 1st year of medical training, a 10 week summer research experience that includes a collaborative, multidisciplinary, mentored research project, didactic training, and career development activities to enhance their understanding, and give them the hands-on experience, of a career as a physician-scientist. The AMSSRP is geared to expose students to the critical role played by physician-scientists in translational research and to inspire these students to embark on this career path of exploration and discovery. The AMSSRP will continue to effectively use the Scholarly Concentrations Program at the Alpert Medical School (AMS) to recruit, train, and track the participants, thus providing significant institutional support. The Scholarly Concentrations Program is an elective course of study that provides students with the opportunity to complete substantial scholarly work in a particular area of study during the entirety of the four year medical school continuum. Most importantly, this program provides a 3-year longitudinal mentoring experience with Brown University faculty. It is anticipated that the involvement of AMSSRP participants in the summer research experience, involvement in the Scholarly Concentrations Program, and mentorship by Brown University faculty will increase the students' commitment to and preparation for a career in academic medicine. NIH has consistently made translational and 'bench-to-bedside' research a priority. However, the increase in NIH support of biomedical basic research has not correlated with an increase in the discovery of efficacious therapies or diagnostics to battle human diseases. This disparity is thought to be due in part to the decrease in the number of physicians that have pursued a research career, a decline that may result from a lack of mentorship, rising costs of medical school education, and a perception that physician scientists are not as highly regarded as physicians in the hospital setting. The AMSSRP serves to dispel this trend by partnering medical students with successful and active scientist mentors engaged in cutting edge research and exposing them to the excitement of biomedical research discoveries related to cardiovascular, pulmonary and blood health and diseases.