BB Principal Investigator/Program Director /Last, first, middle!: Repine John E DESCRIPTION: State the application's broad, long-term objectives and specific aims, making reference to the health relatedness of the project.Describeconcisely the researchdesign and methods for achieving these goals. Avoid summaries of past accomplishments andthe useof the first person. J^^aiption is meant to serve asasuccinct and accurate description of the ^fed work when separated from the application. If the application is funded, this description, asis,will become public information. Theri^^o not include proprietary/confidential information. DO NOT EXCEED TH^^KCE PROVIDED. Our first objective is to expose medical students with little or no research experience to biomedical research by providing them with an organized 'hands on' research experience with highly experienced, rigorously selected, funded research scientists who have teaching proficiency in basic and clinical research. Our second objective is to provide a summer research experience for medical students with expressed interest in clinical or basic science research as part of a formal certificate program to be pursued in conjunction with the M.D. degree. Our third objective is to enhance the intellectual investigative atmosphere for all medical students, to improve their literature evaluation and problem-solving abilities, and to increase the number of our graduates who consider medical research as a component of their careers. Because of this NIH grant, 20 of our best medical students per year have participated for 3 month periods in various of our strongest basic and clinical research programs. During this time, students attend an extensive series of seminars and research conferences, learn about statistics, instrumentation, graphics, computers and ethics, disseminate their results through written reports, participate in our Annual Student Research forum, present their work at national meetings, submit papers for publication, work with other students, and form close relationships with our research faculty thereby comprising a student research oriented school-wide community. Our program is administered and evaluated by the Student Honors and Research Committee, a standing committee of the School of Medicine. Primarily, students who have just completed their first year of medical school are the principal participants, but medical students from any year are eligible. Students are critically selected on the basis of a written proposal developed with their mentor that encompasses project design, data acquisition, results analysis and significance. At the conclusion of their fellowship, students prepare a written report and are surveyed for ways to evaluate the impact of this program and to improve the experience for future students and their mentors. Our program will be further enhanced by our new school-wide initiative which is designed to increase medical student involvement in research. The components of this program include (1) a research oriented mentor system, (2) preferential selection of research oriented students for admission, (3) a 'certificate' program that recognixes students who develop specific research skills, (4) additional elective time in the 4th year for additional research experience and (5) an expanded advertising e.g.dedicated student research Web page), awards and recognition program. PERFORMANCE SITE ========================================Section End===========================================
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