Short-Term Research Training For Optometry Students

T35 EY 013937：验光学生短期研究培训 项目概要/摘要 印第安纳州大学的14名视觉科学家寻求提供短期研究培训， 视光学院的学生。长期目标是在这些学生中培养 对研究的持久兴趣将激励他们追求M.S.和博士视觉学位 科学，并最终导致在健康相关的视觉研究的职业生涯。学生得到指导 由视觉科学家进行积极的研究项目。目前支持的研究资金 这些实验室包括NEI资助的10个R 01、1个R41、1个R44和1个P30核心 赠款，加上来自印第安纳州卫生部的资金和来自 工业和基础。 请求支助7名短期受训人员进行为期3个月的夏季研究。 拥有本科学位的学生通常在第一年结束时进入该课程， 验光学校潜在的培训领域包括：光学（包括前 节光学和视网膜成像），生物学（包括前段的遗传学， RPE的分子生物学和角膜生理学）、疾病（包括眼表 缺陷、年龄相关性黄斑变性、青光眼和眼科疾病），以及视力 （包括光学像差对视觉表现、双眼视觉及视觉 婴儿期和幼儿期的发展）。 三个不同的研究生水平的课程将暴露学员a）流行病学，研究设计 和基本统计作为春季验光课程的一部分，然后进入 短期培训方案B）科学研究中的伦理问题在夏季培训期间， 和c）在夏季培训期间对研究文献进行批判性评估。学员 还组织了一个下午的研究报告，由当地的视觉科学 社区（约40场演讲），为他们提供额外的经验 提供当地研究机会，并向社区介绍研究成果。 鼓励学员在暑期结束后继续从事他们的研究兴趣 培训，通过（i）继续在导师的实验室进行研究和（ii）参加每周的研讨会 由内部教师，研究生和访问学者，并通过（三）参加科学 他们在导师的指导下展示他们的研究的会议。学员 也鼓励通过特殊学位课程，包括他们的数据和分析论文 对于一个MS。视觉科学学位，通过在第二阶段的额外努力， 第四年的OD计划，他们可以完成没有额外的费用。

T35 EY013937: Short-term Research Training for Optometry Students Project summary/abstract Fourteen vision scientists at Indiana University seek to provide short-term research training to students in the School of Optometry. The long-term objective is to develop in these students an abiding interest in research that will motivate them to pursue M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Vision Science, and ultimately lead to careers in health-related vision research. Students are mentored by vision scientists with active research programs. The research funding currently supporting these laboratories includes NEI funding through ten R01s, an R41, an R44 and a P30 core grant, plus funds from the Indiana State Department of Health and multiple other grants from industry and foundations. Support is requested for seven short-term trainees for three months of summer research. Students with an undergraduate degree enter the program usually at the end of their first year in optometry school. The potential areas of training include: Optics (including both anterior segment optics and retinal imaging), Biology (including genetics of the anterior segment, molecular biology of the RPE and corneal physiology), Disease (including ocular surface defects, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma and oculomotor disorders), and Vision (including the impact of optical aberrations on visual performance, binocular vision and visual development in infancy and early childhood). Three different graduate level courses will expose trainees to a) Epidemiology, research design and basic statistics as part of the optometry curriculum during the spring prior to entering the short-term training program b) Ethical Issues in Scientific Research during the summer training, and c) Critical Evaluation of the Research Literature during the summer training. The trainees also organize an afternoon of research presentations made by the local vision science community (approximately 40 presentations), which provides them with additional experience with local research opportunities and the presentation of research findings to the community. The trainees are encouraged to continue following their research interest after their summer training, by (i) continuing their research in their mentor's lab and (ii) attending weekly seminars by in-house faculty, graduate students and visiting scholars, and by (iii) attending scientific meetings at which they present their research under the guidance of their mentors. Trainees are also encouraged through a special degree program to include their data and analysis in a thesis for an M.S. degree in Vision Science, which by additional efforts during the second through fourth year of the OD program they can complete without additional costs.