Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Acad Med. 2010 Nov;85(11):1717-24. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181e7771b.
In 1999, a faculty committee at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine reviewed the mission and goals of the school and determined that graduates should receive initial preparation to develop scholarly careers in medicine. The authors describe the design of a scholarly projects course, the Emphasis Program, which is required of all students in the first two years of medical school. Each student undertakes a mentored project in one of nine areas of scholarship related to medicine. Curricular time is devoted to the program during the first two academic years, and students also spend eight weeks working on their projects in the intervening summer. The program includes a core didactic curriculum on topics common to all areas of scholarly work, such as biostatistics and study design. Implemented with the entering class of 2004, 467 students had completed the program as of May 2010, and only two students have been unable to complete projects in the allotted time. The majority of graduating seniors reported that they felt this was a valuable aspect of their medical education. Whereas the program offers a broad spectrum of scholarship opportunities, most students have selected projects in more traditional areas, such as laboratory-based research and patient-oriented research. The authors describe early successes in meeting program goals as well as some of the ongoing challenges of administering a required but individualized program of this nature.
1999 年，范德比尔特大学医学院的一个教师委员会审查了学校的使命和目标，并确定毕业生应接受初步准备，以发展医学领域的学术生涯。作者描述了一个学术项目课程的设计，即重点项目，该课程是医学院前两年所有学生的必修课。每位学生在与医学相关的九个学术领域之一中承担一项指导项目。在头两年的学习期间，课程时间专门用于该项目，学生还在暑假的八周内从事他们的项目。该计划包括一个关于所有学术工作领域共同主题的核心教学课程，例如生物统计学和研究设计。该计划于 2004 年入学班级实施，截至 2010 年 5 月，已有 467 名学生完成了该计划，只有两名学生未能在规定时间内完成项目。大多数即将毕业的高年级学生表示，他们认为这是他们医学教育的一个有价值的方面。虽然该计划提供了广泛的学术机会，但大多数学生选择了更传统的项目，例如基于实验室的研究和以患者为中心的研究。作者描述了在实现计划目标方面的早期成功，以及管理这种性质的必修但个性化计划所面临的一些持续挑战。
