Course description loving stolen from the Honor's website again...
"This course is intended to give students some broad insight into the world of biomedicine from the perspective of people who work in and around a large Academic Health Center. One section of the course will emphasize the research enterprise, with talks from funded biomedical research investigators, and tours of their laboratories to meet graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with career goals as research scientists. Furthermore, how to apply for and obtain undergraduate research experiences – especially funded summer opportunities at UC and CCHMC - will be emphasized. To broaden the perspective, however, students will also be exposed to other biomedical professionals who are essential to the research mission, including those who oversee the care and proper treatment of animals, directors of essential core service laboratories, those who work with patients or the community, bioethicists, genetic counselors, public health practitioners, and finance and administrative people. To supplement the weekly meetings, there will be opportunities to consider and discuss topics of current interest in medicine and medical research, facilitated by the course directors."
I signed up for this course because it fit in my schedule nicely. I had the opportunity to tour some of the core facilities at Cincinnati Children's that I would not seen outside of this class. I actually ran into several of the presenters around Children's when I was heading into the lab. Since the class only met once a week on the Medical campus it was a small class-only around 12 people so toward the end to the class we started to bond over the endless shuttle rides and the occasional long winded researcher. Even though the class seemed to drag on some days I am very happy I took this class. I learned a lot about the types of research going on around me. I would have never guessed what some people are doing less than 2 miles from where I am learning the basics. I got the chances to see things that I never would have seen otherwise, made some great friends, and made some connections for future lab experiences. I look forward to exploring the fields of research that were presented to me in this seminar. After taking the class I ill be much better informed when I go to look for a new lab. Since I learned a lot of the basics of different types of research, the scientific techno-babble no longer scares me. I do not pretend to know everything however now I know enough to make an informed decision about what type of lab I would like to research. I spent a ridiculous amount of walking around killing time before class started so I found some really cool things like the Starbucks in MSB and these really comfortable chairs in the middle of nowhere that are great for doing homework in. Now I can ride the shuttle system without any problems at all and I can also find my way around Medical campus.
"This course is intended to give students some broad insight into the world of biomedicine from the perspective of people who work in and around a large Academic Health Center. One section of the course will emphasize the research enterprise, with talks from funded biomedical research investigators, and tours of their laboratories to meet graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with career goals as research scientists. Furthermore, how to apply for and obtain undergraduate research experiences – especially funded summer opportunities at UC and CCHMC - will be emphasized. To broaden the perspective, however, students will also be exposed to other biomedical professionals who are essential to the research mission, including those who oversee the care and proper treatment of animals, directors of essential core service laboratories, those who work with patients or the community, bioethicists, genetic counselors, public health practitioners, and finance and administrative people. To supplement the weekly meetings, there will be opportunities to consider and discuss topics of current interest in medicine and medical research, facilitated by the course directors."
I signed up for this course because it fit in my schedule nicely. I had the opportunity to tour some of the core facilities at Cincinnati Children's that I would not seen outside of this class. I actually ran into several of the presenters around Children's when I was heading into the lab. Since the class only met once a week on the Medical campus it was a small class-only around 12 people so toward the end to the class we started to bond over the endless shuttle rides and the occasional long winded researcher. Even though the class seemed to drag on some days I am very happy I took this class. I learned a lot about the types of research going on around me. I would have never guessed what some people are doing less than 2 miles from where I am learning the basics. I got the chances to see things that I never would have seen otherwise, made some great friends, and made some connections for future lab experiences. I look forward to exploring the fields of research that were presented to me in this seminar. After taking the class I ill be much better informed when I go to look for a new lab. Since I learned a lot of the basics of different types of research, the scientific techno-babble no longer scares me. I do not pretend to know everything however now I know enough to make an informed decision about what type of lab I would like to research. I spent a ridiculous amount of walking around killing time before class started so I found some really cool things like the Starbucks in MSB and these really comfortable chairs in the middle of nowhere that are great for doing homework in. Now I can ride the shuttle system without any problems at all and I can also find my way around Medical campus.