Training Cross-Disciplinary Researchers in Diabetes

描述(由申请人提供)： 这项提案描述了一项新的倡议，旨在教育研究生有关糖尿病的生物科学、生物信息学和生物工程知识。该方案的具体目标是： 1.推广、改进和教授最近开发的新型糖尿病课程。本课程旨在向不同学科的研究生介绍糖尿病，包括工程学、信息学和生物科学。中心的学习目标是教授技能，最终促进学生对糖尿病未解决问题的主要纪律的应用。 2.建立跨学科学生团队将糖尿病相关发明推向原型阶段的机制。 3.开发电子课件，作为斯坦福大学糖尿病课程的框架。基于网络的材料将支持管理功能，如课程组织和关于作业的沟通。重要的是，电子材料还将为学生提供补充教育机会，包括复习课堂课程、相关资源的链接、自我评估工具和在线讨论论坛。 4.修改和扩展电子课件，使其可作为其他机构开发类似课程的框架。许多功能将被添加到课程中，供斯坦福以外的网站使用。其中最主要的将是一份电子教师手册，以及视频捕获和其他学校实时授课的说明。 5.开发、验证和改进与糖尿病课程相结合使用的评估工具。实现这一目标将使我们能够不断评估课程的每个组成部分的成效，无论是从学生表现还是从课程表现来看。此外，我们将制定方法，对课程实现其目标的程度进行更长远的分析。这些工具以及定制它们以供其他学校使用的说明也将包括在电子课程中。 这项提议的长期目标是招募具有不同背景的人参与与糖尿病或相关疾病相关的转化研究。这一目标的实现有可能为糖尿病及相关疾病的新诊断和治疗方法做出贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal describes a new initiative to educate graduate students in Biosciences, BioInformatics, and BioEngineering about Diabetes. The specific objectives of the program are: 1. To extend, improve and teach a recently developed, novel diabetes curriculum. This curriculum is designed to introduce graduate students in various disciplines, including engineering, informatics, and biosciences, to diabetes mellitus. The central learning objective is to teach skills that ultimately facilitate the application of the students' primary discipline to unsolved problems in diabetes. 2. To develop a mechanism for interdisciplinary student teams to pursue diabetes-related inventions to the prototype stage. 3. To develop electronic courseware to serve as a framework for this diabetes curriculum at Stanford University. Web-based materials will support administrative functions, such as course organization and communication about assignments. Importantly, the electronic materials will also provide supplementary educational opportunities for students, including review of the in-class sessions, links to relevant resources, self-assessment tools, and an on-line discussion forum. 4. To modify and extend the electronic courseware such that it may serve as a framework for development of similar courses at other institutions. A number of features will be added to the courseware for use at sites outside of Stanford. Chief among them will be an electronic instructor's manual, and directions for video capture and incorporation in real-time of lectures at other schools. 5. To develop, validate, and refine evaluation tools to be used in association with the diabetes curriculum. Achievement of this aim will allow on-going assessment of the efficacy of each of the components of the curriculum, both in terms of student performance and in terms of course performance. In addition, we will develop approaches for longer-view analysis of the extent to which the course is meeting its objectives. These tools, and instructions for customizing them for use at other schools, will also be included in the electronic courseware. The long term goal of this proposal is to recruit individuals with diverse backgrounds into translational research with relevance to diabetes or related conditions. Achievement of this goal has the potential to contribute to new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for diabetes and related conditions.