Greater Boston Medical Student Training in Aging Research

项目摘要 大波士顿MStar计划旨在提供短期老龄化研究和指导经验，以 医科学生在他们职业生涯的早期。学生将变得受过教育，并对职业充满热情 学术、临床和老年医学研究方面的机会。自那以来，该计划一直在持续运作 1989年，为230多名医学生提供短期研究培训经验。这两个计划 主任和联席主任在这一职位上有五年的经验，并参与了教学和 指导波士顿MStar学生超过十年。项目总监将向指导顾问报告 计划异地委员会，增加高质量的导师池，并继续努力招聘少数族裔 来自哈佛大学、密西西比大学/杰克逊心脏研究、波士顿大学医学中心、 马萨诸塞大学医学院和布朗大学医学院。我们目前有40多个 拥有200多个资助研究项目的导师，这些项目当年的直接成本合计超过 6000万美元。 波士顿MStar计划的核心将是为期8至12周的指导老龄化研究项目体验 11名学者：7名来自全国各地的医学院，1名来自密西西比大学 马萨诸塞州、波士顿大学医学中心和布朗大学。所有学生都将接受培训 保护人类受试者、衰老研究方法和临床老年病学。学生们将展示他们的 以口头报告的形式进行研究，并将大力鼓励他们在联合国儿童基金会年度会议上介绍他们的工作。 美国老年医学学会。该项目将跟踪学生的医疗培训和职业决定。通过 与学生建立牢固的关系，学者跟踪将是指导的延续 经验和一个论坛，以增加学者对老龄化研究的兴趣。 该项目过去的成功为其未来潜力埋下了伏笔。在过去的赠款周期中，我们已经增加了三倍 申请者的数量，使我们能够选择真正对老龄化研究感兴趣的学生。超过三分之二的 我们有20%的学生在科学会议上发表了他们8-12周指导研究的科学论文 经验。长期而言，在T35机制下，24%的被录取学生进行了额外的研究 在老年医学方面的培训或职业。因此，大波士顿MStar计划寻求延续 培养医学生进行老龄化研究。

Project Abstract The Greater Boston MSTAR Program aims to provide a short-term aging research and mentoring experience to medical students early in their career. Students will become educated and enthusiastic about the career opportunities in academic, clinical, and research geriatric medicine. The Program has operated continuously since 1989 and provided short term research training experiences to over 230 medical students. Both the Program Director and Co-Director have five years of experience in this role and have been involved with teaching and mentoring Boston MSTAR students for over a decade. The Program Director will report to the Mentor Advisory Council for program oversite, increasing the pool of high-quality mentors, and continued efforts on recruiting minority Scholars from Harvard, the University of Mississippi/Jackson Heart Study, Boston University Medical Center, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Brown University School of Medicine. We currently have over 40 mentors with more than 200 funded research projects whose combined direct costs for the current year total over $60 million. The heart of the Boston MSTAR Program will be the 8 to12-week mentored aging research project experience for 11 scholars: 7 from medical schools across the country, and one each from the University of Mississippi, University of Massachusetts, Boston University Medical Center, and Brown University. All students will receive training in protection of human subjects, aging research methodology, and clinical geriatrics. Students will present their research in an oral presentation and will be strongly encouraged to present their work at the annual meeting of the American Geriatrics Society. The program will track students through their medical training and career decisions. By developing a strong relationship with the students, the scholar tracking will be a continuation of the mentoring experience and a forum to increase scholar interest in aging research. The program’s past successes are a foreshadowing of its future potential. Over the past grant cycle, we have tripled the number of applicants, allowing us to select students with a genuine interest in aging research. Over two-thirds of our students present at a scientific meeting 20% publish a scientific paper from their 8-12 week mentored research experience. Long term, under the T35 mechanism, 24% of matriculated students have pursued additional research training or a career in geriatrics. As a result, the Greater Boston MSTAR Program seeks to continue the tradition of training medical students in aging research.