Iowa Summer Institute for Research Education in Biostatistics

爱荷华州生物统计学研究教育夏季研究所

• 批准号: 9222801
• 负责人: GIDEON D ZAMBA
• 金额: $ 24.65万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-02-15 至 2019-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9222801
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 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), from the University of Iowa, in response to RFA-HL-16-017 for a Summer Institute for Research Education in Biostatistics. The ultimate vision of our proposed research education program is to increase the number of undergraduates who enter graduate programs in Biostatistics and to maintain a solid underrepresented minority pipeline into biostatistics graduate programs. The proposal is for the University of Iowa (UI) Department of Biostatistics to recruit a diverse group of 18 trainees each year, from 2016 to 2018, with focus on minority, underrepresented and disadvantaged students who wouldn't have otherwise been exposed to the field of biostatistics, and to train during a seven-week research education program. Recruitment will target rising seniors from colleges and universities without graduate programs or extensive undergraduate education in statistics or biostatistics, graduating senior students with no commitment to a graduate program six months following our research education program, and highly promising juniors with clear vision to pursue graduate degrees in biostatistics. Terminal Master's students in quantitative fields, with a desire to pursue a graduate degree in biostatistics will also be encouraged to apply. Special efforts will be made to recruit a diverse student body, including trainees from groups underrepresented in biomedical research. The curriculum is a four-component model based on instruction; application; exposure; and research. The research education program will be through case-based instruction of real biomedical study, consisting of a classroom didactic course; computer laboratory training; invited speakers; Skype sessions; shadowing sessions; research and clinical and translational research enrichment. As initiation to quantitative biomedical research, trainees will undertake biostatistics-faculty-mentored projects on biomedical research and typically with a biomedical researcher. Students will select from a pool of projects according to their interest, and will be matched to a faculty mentor. Projects will be based on the analysis of biomedical data, and/or the design of a biomedical experiment, and/or the statistical and computational issues associated with big data. The research projects will be presented at a biostatistics final symposium at the end of the training session. Trainees will interact with biostatisticians in academia, industry, the pharmaceutical industry, biomedical researchers, biostatistics graduate students and alumni and others. Guidance on how to successfully prepare for the GRE, how to prepare a successful application and how to apply to graduate schools will be provided.

 描述（由申请人提供）：这是爱荷华大学向美国国立卫生研究院 (NIH)、国家心肺和血液研究所 (NHLBI) 提出的一项提案，以回应 RFA-HL-16-017生物统计学研究教育夏季学院。我们拟议的研究教育计划的最终愿景是增加进入生物统计学研究生课程的本科生数量，并保持进入生物统计学研究生课程的坚实的少数群体渠道。提案要求爱荷华大学 (UI) 生物统计学系从 2016 年到 2018 年每年招募 18 名多元化的学员，重点关注少数族裔、代表性不足和弱势学生，否则他们不会接触到该领域的知识。生物统计学，并在为期七周的研究教育计划中进行培训，招聘对象是没有研究生课程或没有广泛接受过统计学或生物统计学本科教育的大学毕业生，以及没有承诺毕业的高年级学生。在我们的研究教育计划六个月后，我们的学生们非常有前途，有明确的愿景去攻读定量领域的终端硕士研究生学位。 还将鼓励希望攻读生物统计学研究生学位的学生申请，包括来自生物医学研究领域代表性不足的群体的学员。研究教育计划将通过真实的生物医学研究进行教学，包括课堂教学课程、邀请演讲者、临床和转化研究强化课程。开始生物医学研究，学员将承担生物统计学教师指导的生物医学研究项目，通常由生物医学定量研究人员进行，学生将根据自己的兴趣从项目库中进行选择，并根据项目与教师导师进行匹配。生物医学数据的分析，和/或生物医学实验的设计，和/或与大数据相关的统计和计算问题将在培训课程结束时的生物统计学最终研讨会上进行介绍。与学术界、工业界、制药行业的生物统计学家、生物医学研究人员、生物统计学研究生和校友等进行互动，提供有关如何成功准备 GRE、如何准备成功申请以及如何申请研究生院的指导。