LSUHSC Summer Internship Program

描述（由申请人提供）：摘要为了有效地解决医生的科学家的需要，我们提出了一个创新的，短期的研究培训计划，在LSUHSC新奥尔良大学预科和录取的第一年医学生。这个暑期实习计划（SIP）将支持五名学生，旨在培养他们对研究职业的兴趣。我们已经确定了至少28名教师导师在三个卓越的心脏或肺部疾病领域的工作中心。学生将在夏季进行为期10周的临床或基础科学研究，与LSU教师合作。那些参加第二个夏天的学生（预科生）将担任即将到来的参与者的同伴导师，从而为该计划提供重要的指导组成部分。这个暑期实习计划的目标是：1）为医学生提供实践研究经验; 2）促进一对一的研究指导; 3）增加LSUHSC女性和少数民族医学生参与研究; 4）为暑期实习生提供他们在学术医学中取得成功所需的职业技能。除了他们的研究经验，学生还参加每周一次的研讨会和教学培训系列：实验室安全，负责任的研究行为，HIPPA，撰写摘要和展示研究结果（口头和海报演示）。在夏季结束时，学生将提出口头或海报介绍;他们将被支持在国家或区域会议上介绍他们的数据。我们将努力招募至少20%代表性不足的少数民族参与者，反映路易斯安那州立大学医学院班级的人口统计数据。为了确定该计划对个人参与者的影响，暑期实习生将完成目标实现量表以及研究自我效能感（RSE）调查。RSE是职业选择和表现的主要预测因素。我们还将对整个计划进行形成性和总结性评估，以确定可能需要进行哪些更改。最后，与学生事务办公室合作，我们将实施职业跟踪系统，以衡量他们的暑期经历对职业选择和研究参与的长期影响，这将量化该计划的长期影响。该计划将创造新一代的医生研究人员谁准备在路易斯安那州进行生物医学研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Abstract In order to effectively address the need for physician scientists, we propose an innovative, short-term research training program for pre-matriculating and matriculated 1st year medical students at LSUHSC-New Orleans. This Summer Internship Program (SIP) will support five students and is designed to cultivate their interest in research careers. We have identified at least 28 faculty mentors within three Centers of Excellence working in the areas of heart or lung diseases. Students will conduct intensive hands on clinical or basic science research for 10 weeks in the summer, working with LSU faculty. Those students who participate for a second summer (pre-matriculed students) will act as peer mentors to incoming participants, thus providing an important mentoring component to the program. The goals of this Summer Internship Program are: 1) to provide medical students with hands on research experience; 2) to facilitate one-on-one research mentoring; 3) to increase the participation in research by women and minority medical students at LSUHSC; 4) to provide summer interns with the career skills they will need to succeed in academic medicine. In addition to their research experience, students also attend a weekly seminar and a didactic training series on: lab safety, responsible conduct of research, HIPPA, writing abstracts and presenting research results (oral and poster presentations). At the end of the summer, students will present either an oral or a poster presentation; they will be supported to present their data at national or regional meetings as well. We will work to recruit at least 20% underrepresented minority participants, reflecting the demographics of the LSU medical school class. In order to determine the impact the program has on individual participants, summer interns will complete Goals Attainment Scales as well as Research Self Efficacy (RSE) surveys. RSE is a major predictor of career choice and performance. We will also conduct formative and summative evaluations concerning the entire program, in order to determine what changes may be needed. Lastly, working with the Office of Student Affairs, we will implement a career tracking system to measure the long-term impact of their summer experience on career choices and research participation, which will quantify the long-term impact of this program. This program will create a whole generation of new physician researchers who are prepared to conduct biomedical research in Louisiana.