Summer Research Training in Aging for Medical Students

描述(由申请人提供)：PIT/UTMB暑期项目的目的是让来自不同背景的医学生在老龄研究方面获得个人奖励经验，并通过与成功的榜样和热情的同行建立密切关系来促进老龄研究领域的职业发展。匹兹堡大学和UTMB是国家培训计划的丰富环境，拥有许多NIA感兴趣的活跃和成熟的研究计划，从基础研究到临床和卫生服务研究。虽然皮特大学为自己的医科学生在衰老研究方面有成功的暑期项目，但拟议的项目将允许其他学校的学生参与。这项提议与邻近的两所医学院(西弗吉尼亚大学和辛辛那提大学)建立了一个新的招聘和支持网络。 暑期项目是为期8-12周的密集体验，包括在赞助导师的指导下进行的个性化研究体验，与学生研究项目直接相关的结构化教学体验，与潜在榜样和同行互动的机会，以及努力为参与者建立认同感和成员资格。该计划包括实时和后续评估过程，旨在持续改进该计划并评估其在实现其长期目标方面的有效性。该计划的长期目标是增加在与老龄化相关的高优先领域进行研究的老牌医生调查人员的数量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of the Pitt/UTMB Summer Program is to engage medical students from diverse backgrounds in personally rewarding experiences in aging research and to promote careers in aging research through close relationships with successful role models and enthusiastic peers. The University of Pittsburgh and UTMB are rich environments for a national training program, with numerous active and well established research programs of interest to NIA ranging from basic to clinical and health services research. While Pitt has successful summer programs in aging research for its own medical students, the proposed program will allow students from other schools to participate. This proposal creates a novel recruitment and support network with two neighboring medical schools (University of West Virginia and University of Cincinnati). The summer program is an 8-12 week intensive experience that includes an individualized research experience under a sponsoring mentor, a structured didactic experience that is directly linked to student research projects, opportunities to interact with potential role models and peers and efforts to build a sense of identity and membership for participants. The Program includes both real-time and follow-up evaluation processes designed to continuously improve the program and to assess its effectiveness in achieving its long term goals. The long term goal of the program is to increase the number of established physician investigators who pursue research in high priority areas related to aging.