Training Program:Interdisciplinary Systems Research(RMI)

培训项目：跨学科系统研究（RMI）

• 批准号: 6949620
• 负责人: PETER R BERGETHON
• 金额: $ 21.7万
• 依托单位: BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-20 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6949620
• 关键词: computer assisted instruction; computer human interaction; computer simulation; curriculum; interdisciplinary collaboration; meeting /conference /symposium; neurobiology; postgraduate education; science education; training; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Using a well developed outcome and assessment driven curriculum development module, we will create and implement two linked interdisciplinary courses for graduate students in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine. The central curriculum development module (the SPIRIT engine) will be created using a framework assessment model. This tool will allow outcomes-based short programs to be developed by participating faculty and will provide an assessment driven unified approach to teaching interdisciplinary content and concepts as well as the principles of collaboration and collaborative administration. Two core modules will be developed and implemented in this program using the SPIRIT tool: 1) a core hands-on course in systems thinking and computational modeling and: 2) a case based vertical integrated interdisciplinary course in neurobiology. The first course, "Dynamical Modeling and Systems", is an innovative course that will provide the seminal experience to introduce students to the tools of interdisciplinary research. The course will utilize interactive computer based simulations of complex biomedical systems that require a systematic approach that includes formal modeling and explicit description of dynamical change-in effect "the roadmap" for interdisciplinary thinking. Students will then apply these newly acquired skills to the second course, "Case Studies in Human Neurobiology", in which they will be required to overcome the traditional disciplinary boundaries (i.e, biochemisty, physiology, anatomy, histolgy developmental biology, cell biology, genetics, neuropsychology and social behavior). Taken together, these two courses will nurture the essential and requisite skill of the interdisciplinary scientist. We will then administer the same course to another cohort of graduate students at Boston University School of Medicine with a more cell biological and biochemical background to show that the dynamic modeling and systems approach works equally well to allow students from different traditional disciplinary backgrounds to engage and achieve mastery of a common interdisciplinary skillset. In the third year, through the auspices and guidance of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, we hope to make available and disseminate the courses, and the process of their development, to select neuroscience departments and programs throughout the country.

描述（由申请人提供）： 使用完善的结果和评估驱动的课程开发模块，我们将为波士顿大学医学院解剖学和神经生物学系的研究生创建和实施两门相互关联的跨学科课程。中心课程开发模块（SPIRIT 引擎）将使用框架评估模型创建。该工具将允许参与教师开发基于成果的短期项目，并将提供一种评估驱动的统一方法来教授跨学科内容和概念以及协作和协作管理的原则。该项目将使用 SPIRIT 工具开发和实施两个核心模块：1）系统思维和计算建模的核心实践课程；2）基于案例的神经生物学垂直综合跨学科课程。第一门课程“动态建模和系统”是一门创新课程，它将提供开创性的经验，向学生介绍跨学科研究的工具。该课程将利用基于交互式计算机的复杂生物医学系统模拟，该系统需要一种系统方法，包括形式化建模和动态变化效应的明确描述，跨学科思维的“路线图”。然后，学生将把这些新获得的技能应用到第二门课程“人类神经生物学案例研究”中，其中要求他们克服传统的学科界限（即生物化学、生理学、解剖学、组织学、发育生物学、细胞生物学、遗传学） 、神经心理学和社会行为）。总而言之，这两门课程将培养跨学科科学家的基本和必需的技能。然后，我们将为波士顿大学医学院的另一批具有更多细胞生物学和生化背景的研究生开设同一课程，以表明动态建模和系统方法同样有效，可以让来自不同传统学科背景的学生参与并参与其中。掌握通用的跨学科技能。第三年，通过卡内基教学促进基金会的赞助和指导，我们希望提供和传播这些课程及其开发过程，以在全国范围内选择神经科学系和项目。