RAND Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists

兰德社会科学家迷你医学院

• 批准号: 9060225
• 负责人: MICHAEL D HURD
• 金额: $ 7.48万
• 依托单位: RAND CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-01 至 2018-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9060225
• 关键词: Affect; Aging; Aging-Related Process; Behavioral; Biology; California; Cardiovascular Diseases; Dementia; Demography; Diabetes Mellitus; Economics; Educational workshop; Elderly; Epidemiology; Event; Faculty; Foundations; Genetic; Health; Institution; Instruction; International; Knowledge; Malignant Neoplasms; Medical; Participant; Postdoctoral Fellow; Psychology; Research; Research Personnel; Scientist; Series; Social Sciences; Sociology; Training; Training Programs; Universities; base; improved; interest; lectures; medical schools; pre-doctoral; programs; social; social science research; sound

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Since 1998, RAND has hosted a Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists (Mini-Med) in Santa Monica, California, motivated by the recognition that behavioral and social research on aging is better informed-and ultimately more useful-if it has a sound biomedical basis. Traditional training programs in the social sciences-such as economics, psychology, demography, and sociology-often steer clear of biomedical issues. While Mini-Med does not fully remedy this deficiency, it does expose young social scientists to biomedical issues to stimulate them to further investigate the complementarities between their research and the larger biomedical field. Mini-Med consists of a two-day series of lectures by national and international experts on diverse biomedical topics of interest to researchers in aging. The event is held with a second workshop on the demography, economics, and epidemiology of aging. Combining these two workshops both reduces organizational expenses and serves to attract scholars who might otherwise not attend either program. Past participants have included senior and junior faculty at universities, post-doctoral and pre-doctoral trainees in aging, and researchers from non-profit foundations and institutions. Past lectures have covered such diverse topics as the aging process, genetics, and biology, as well as specific conditions that affect the elderly such as cancer, dementia, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Each lecture emphasizes medical knowledge that would improve social science research on the elderly.

描述（由申请人提供）：自1998年以来，兰德（Rand）在加利福尼亚州圣塔莫尼卡（Santa Monica）举办了一所迷你社会科学家（Mini-MED），这是因为人们认识到，对衰老的行为和社会研究的认识是更好的知情，最终更有用 - 如果它具有合理的生物医学基础。社会科学中的传统培训计划，例如经济学，心理学，人口统计学和社会学，通常会避免生物医学问题。尽管Mini-Med并未完全弥补这种缺陷，但它确实使年轻的社会科学家暴露于生物医学问题，以刺激他们进一步研究其研究与更大的生物医学领域之间的互补性。迷你医师包括由国家和国际衰老研究人员感兴趣的各种生物医学主题的为期两天的讲座。该活动举行了有关人口统计学，经济学和衰老流行病学的第二次研讨会。将这两个研讨会结合在一起可以减少组织费用，并吸引那些可能不参加任何一项计划的学者。过去的参与者包括大学的高级和初级教职员工，衰老的博士后和博士后学员，以及来自非营利基金会和机构的研究人员。过去的讲座涵盖了各种各样的主题，例如衰老过程，遗传学和生物学以及影响老年人（例如癌症，痴呆，心血管疾病和糖尿病）的特定疾病。每次讲座都强调医学知识将改善对老年人的社会科学研究。