Summer Research Training in Aging for Medical Students

拟议中的T35计划将每年为16名医学生提供财政支持，让他们在医学院的第一个夏天花9周时间从事与老龄化相关的研究。对于本次续约申请，T35计划的目标仍然是：(1)为学生提供优秀的研究导师和与老龄化相关的研究项目，以激发他们对老龄化研究的兴趣；(2)使医学生对老年人临床护理原理和老年医学产生兴趣；(3)开展一个高质量的项目，以确定高素质的学生，确保强有力的指导，并优化研究成果的可能性，这些研究成果将导致在老龄化研究和老年医学领域的演讲和出版，以及未来的职业生涯；(4)获取数据，判断方案是否成功，并对方案进行修改，使其更加成功。医学院学生老龄化暑期研究培训计划将与美国老龄化研究联合会（AFAR）协调，以便其他医学院的学生以及纽约大学的学生可以参加。一位经验丰富的老年病专家和研究员将担任项目主任（PD），由一位熟悉医学生职业指导、老年课程开发和纽约大学强调研究的新课程的副项目主任（APD）协助。内部咨询委员会（IAB）将在导师和项目的选择、评估指标的审查以及项目改进方面向PD提供建议。每年，PD和IAB将选择经验丰富的研究人员，同时也是成功的导师，并向他们征求学生的老龄研究项目。这些研究人员将在学生的暑期经历中与他们密切合作，以确保一个适合摘要，演示和出版的研究项目的成功实施。在整个九周的时间里，学生们将参加每周与研究和老年病学/老龄化相关的互动教学会议。学生也将有机会获得适合M2上升的临床经验。在他们的体验结束时，学生将正式向其他学生和导师展示他们的研究项目。他们还将被要求提交美国老年医学会（AGS）年会和/或其他专业协会的摘要。我们强烈鼓励学生参加这些会议，展示他们的研究成果。为了跟踪项目的成功，学生和导师将在项目结束时接受调查，了解他们的经验，以及如何改进项目。学生还将在医学院中期和期末以及实习结束时接受调查，以评估他们在老龄化和研究方面的职业成就和目标。

The proposed T35 program will provide annual financial support to sixteen medical students to spend nine weeks during the first summer of medical school, working on aging-related research. For this renewal application, the T35 program's objectives remain: (1) to provide students excellent research mentors and aging related research projects to stimulate their interest in aging research; (2) to get medical students engaged and interested in principles of clinical care for older adults and in geriatric medicine; (3) to run a high-quality program that identifies highly qualified students, assures strong mentorship, and optimizes the probability that research will lead to presentations and publications and future careers in aging research and geriatric medicine; and (4) to acquire data to judge the success of the program and to modify the program to make it more successful. The Summer Research Training in Aging for Medical Students program will coordinate with the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) so that students from other medical schools, as well as NYUSoM students, can participate. An experienced geriatrician and researcher will be the Program Director (PD) assisted by an Associate Program Director (APD) familiar with career mentoring for medical students, geriatric curriculum development, and the NYUSoM's new curriculum that emphasizes research. An Internal Advisory Board (IAB) will advise the PD on selection of mentors and projects, review evaluation metrics, and suggest program improvements. Each year the PD and the IAB will select experienced researchers who are also successful mentors and solicit from them aging research projects for students. These researchers will work closely with students during their summer experience to ensure the successful implementation of a research project suitable for abstract, presentation and publication. Throughout the nine weeks, students will participate in weekly interactive didactic session related both to research and four to geriatrics/aging. Students will also have the opportunity for clinical experiences appropriate for rising M2's. At the end of their experience, students will formally present their research projects to other students and mentors. They will also be required to submit an abstract for the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) annual meeting, and/or another professional society. Students will be strongly encouraged to attend these meetings to present their research. To track the success of the program, students and mentors will be surveyed at the end of the program regarding their experience, and how the program can be improved. Students will also be surveyed in the middle and end of medical school and at the end of residency, to assess their career achievements and goals related to aging and research.