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U-Hack Med Gap Year—A Virtual Undergraduate Internship Program in Computer-Assisted Healthcare and Biomedical Research

The COVID-19 healthcare crisis dramatically changed educational opportunities for undergraduate students. To overcome the lack of exposure to lab research and provide an alternative to cancelled classes and online lectures, the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics at UT Southwestern Medical Center...

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Autores principales: Daetwyler, Stephan, Mazloom-Farsibaf, Hanieh, Danuser, Gaudenz, Craig, Rebekah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9581059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36303739
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbinf.2021.727066
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author Daetwyler, Stephan
Mazloom-Farsibaf, Hanieh
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Craig, Rebekah
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description The COVID-19 healthcare crisis dramatically changed educational opportunities for undergraduate students. To overcome the lack of exposure to lab research and provide an alternative to cancelled classes and online lectures, the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics at UT Southwestern Medical Center established an innovative, fully remote and paid “U-Hack Med Gap Year” internship program. At the core of the internship program were dedicated biomedical research projects spanning nine months in fields as diverse as computational microscopy, bioimage analysis, genome sequence analysis and establishment of a surgical skill analysis platform. To complement the project work, a biweekly Gap Year lab meeting was devised with opportunities to develop important skills in presenting, data sharing and analysis of new research. Despite a challenging year, all selected students completed the full internship period and over 30% will continue their project remotely after the end of the program.
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spelling pubmed-95810592022-10-26 U-Hack Med Gap Year—A Virtual Undergraduate Internship Program in Computer-Assisted Healthcare and Biomedical Research Daetwyler, Stephan Mazloom-Farsibaf, Hanieh Danuser, Gaudenz Craig, Rebekah Front Bioinform Bioinformatics The COVID-19 healthcare crisis dramatically changed educational opportunities for undergraduate students. To overcome the lack of exposure to lab research and provide an alternative to cancelled classes and online lectures, the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics at UT Southwestern Medical Center established an innovative, fully remote and paid “U-Hack Med Gap Year” internship program. At the core of the internship program were dedicated biomedical research projects spanning nine months in fields as diverse as computational microscopy, bioimage analysis, genome sequence analysis and establishment of a surgical skill analysis platform. To complement the project work, a biweekly Gap Year lab meeting was devised with opportunities to develop important skills in presenting, data sharing and analysis of new research. Despite a challenging year, all selected students completed the full internship period and over 30% will continue their project remotely after the end of the program. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9581059/ /pubmed/36303739 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbinf.2021.727066 Text en Copyright © 2021 Daetwyler, Mazloom-Farsibaf, Danuser and Craig. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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U-Hack Med Gap Year—A Virtual Undergraduate Internship Program in Computer-Assisted Healthcare and Biomedical Research
title U-Hack Med Gap Year—A Virtual Undergraduate Internship Program in Computer-Assisted Healthcare and Biomedical Research
title_full U-Hack Med Gap Year—A Virtual Undergraduate Internship Program in Computer-Assisted Healthcare and Biomedical Research
title_fullStr U-Hack Med Gap Year—A Virtual Undergraduate Internship Program in Computer-Assisted Healthcare and Biomedical Research
title_full_unstemmed U-Hack Med Gap Year—A Virtual Undergraduate Internship Program in Computer-Assisted Healthcare and Biomedical Research
title_short U-Hack Med Gap Year—A Virtual Undergraduate Internship Program in Computer-Assisted Healthcare and Biomedical Research
title_sort u-hack med gap year—a virtual undergraduate internship program in computer-assisted healthcare and biomedical research
topic Bioinformatics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9581059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36303739
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbinf.2021.727066
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