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）： 使用良好的成果和评估驱动的课程发展模块，我们将为波士顿大学医学院的解剖学和神经生物学系的研究生创建并实施两个链接的跨学科课程。中央课程开发模块（Spirit Engine）将使用框架评估模型创建。该工具将允许通过参与的教师制定基于结果的简短计划，并将提供评估驱动的统一方法，以教授跨学科内容和概念以及协作和协作管理的原则。使用精神工具，将在该程序中开发和实施两个核心模块：1）系统思维和计算建模中的核心动手课程以及：2）基于病例的神经生物学中基于病例的垂直综合跨学科课程。第一门课程“动态建模和系统”是一门创新的课程，它将提供开创性的体验，以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的模拟，该模拟需要系统的方法，其中包括正式的建模和对跨学科思维的动态变化效果“路线图”的明确描述。然后，学生将把这些新获得的技能应用于第二个课程，即“人类神经生物学中的案例研究”，在该课程中，他们将被要求克服传统的纪律界限（即生物化学，生理学，解剖学，组织变性，组织生物学，细胞生物学，生物学，遗传学，神经心理学和社会行为）。综上所述，这两个课程将培养跨学科科学家的基本和必要的技能。然后，我们将向波士顿大学医学院的另一批研究生进行同一课程，并具有更具细胞的生物学和生物化学背景，以表明动态建模和系统方法同样可以使来自不同传统纪律背景的学生同样效果，以互动并掌握常见的跨学科技能。在第三年，通过卡内基教学发展基金会的主持和指导，我们希望能够提供并传播课程及其发展过程，以选择全国各地的神经科学部门和计划。