Short Term Research Training

项目摘要/摘要 北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校(UNC)提出了一项短期研究 培训计划(STRT)，将提供长达3个月的研究体验，最多24人 已完成至少一年医学院学业的医学生目前 已注册。该项目的短期目标是为医学生提供有意义的 在他们医学院生涯早期的研究经验。 为了实现这一目标，该计划的目标是：(1)选拔最多24名医学生 每年对研究事业感兴趣并将投入8-12周从事 研究项目；(2)将STT参与者与精心挑选的优秀教员相匹配 导师将作为榜样，帮助培养STT学生对 研究；(3)为STT参与者提供必要和可选的教学内容 增加研究经验的可能性，这将为职业生涯提供一座桥梁 学术内科医生；(4)跟踪STT的结果，以确定计划的成功。 北卡罗来纳大学STRT计划的长期目标将是增加医疗人员的数量 学生致力于以下领域的研究：消化系统疾病、肝病、 营养失调、肥胖、糖尿病、内分泌紊乱、代谢性疾病、肾脏 疾病、泌尿系统疾病和血液系统疾病。 该计划利用了独特而可观的研究机构优势， 包括大量NIDDK资助的研究人员，NIDDK资助的消化系统疾病 中心，以及来自四个不同卫生事务学校的广泛调查人员，他们是 位于彼此非常接近的位置。这样的安排创造了一种研究 将为终身研究事业提供通道的环境。

Project Summary/Abstract The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) proposes a Short Term Research Training Program (STRT) that will provide an up to 3-month research experience for up to 24 medical students who have completed at least one year of medical school and are currently enrolled. The short term goal of the program is to provide medical students with a meaningful research experience early in their medical school career. In order to achieve that goal the aims of the program are: (1) To select up to 24 medical students per year who have an interest in a research career and will dedicate 8-12 weeks to work on a research project.; (2) To match the STRT participants to carefully selected, outstanding faculty mentors who will serve as role models and help nurture the interest of STRT students in research; (3) To provide STRT participants with required and optional didactics that will increase the likelihood of a research experience that will provide a bridge to a career as an academic physician; (4) To track the outcomes of STRT to determine the success of the program. The long-term goal of the UNC STRT Program will be to increase the number of medical students committed to a research career in the following areas: digestive diseases, liver disease, nutritional disorders, obesity, diabetes, endocrine disorders, metabolic diseases, kidney diseases, urologic diseases and hematologic disorders. The program takes advantage of unique and considerable institutional strengths in research, including a large number of NIDDK-funded investigators, an NIDDK-funded Digestive Diseases Center, and a broad array of investigators from four different health affairs schools who are located in close proximity to each other. Such an arrangement creates the kind of research environment that will provide the gateway for a lifelong research career.