High school Internship Program in Integrated Mathematical Oncology (HIP IMO) – five-year experience at Moffitt Cancer Center

Enderling, Heiko; Altrock, Philipp M.; Andor, Noemi; Basanta, David; Brown, Joel S.; Gatenby, Robert A.; Marusyk, Andriy; Rejniak, Katarzyna A.; Silva, Ariosto; Anderson, Alexander R.A.

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“…17 To better prepare students for future careers at the interdisciplinary interface, Enderling et al identified a need to educate junior and senior high school students about integrating mathematical and biological skills, through the lens of mathematical oncology, known as the High school Internship Program in Integrated Mathematical Oncology (HIP IMO) at Moffitt Cancer Center. 18 Modern cancer research, and the wealth of data across multiple spatial and temporal scales, has created the need for researchers that are well versed in the life sciences (cancer biology, developmental biology, immunology), medical sciences (oncology), and natural sciences (mathematics, physics, engineering, computer sciences). 18 College undergraduate education traditionally occurs in disciplinary silos, which creates a steep learning curve at the graduate and postdoctoral levels that increasingly bridge multiple disciplines.…”

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“…18 Modern cancer research, and the wealth of data across multiple spatial and temporal scales, has created the need for researchers that are well versed in the life sciences (cancer biology, developmental biology, immunology), medical sciences (oncology), and natural sciences (mathematics, physics, engineering, computer sciences). 18 College undergraduate education traditionally occurs in disciplinary silos, which creates a steep learning curve at the graduate and postdoctoral levels that increasingly bridge multiple disciplines. Numerous colleges have begun to embrace interdisciplinary curricula, but students who double major in mathematics (or other quantitative sciences) and biology (or medicine) remain scarce.…”

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“…The aim is to promote interdisciplinary educational activities early in a student's career. 18 Another recently published pipeline program described by Kana et al, is the Doctors of Tomorrow (DoT) program between the University of Michigan Medical School and Cass Technical High School in Detroit which was established with a mission to encourage youth from communities that are underrepresented in medicine to pursue their interests in health care careers. 19 Students engaged in self-reflective practices prompted by weekly surveys.…”

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An Academic Ophthalmology Curriculum as a Model for Introducing Preprofessional Students to Careers in Ophthalmology

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Ophthalmology is one of the most rewarding and fulfilling medical careers in medicine due to the broad practice scope (including a combination of medicine and surgery); patient population (treatment of pediatric and adult patients); diverse patient and pathology mix (healthy eye exams, refractions, and pathology); high patient and provider satisfaction rates; and highly specialized technology and treatments. Unfortunately, academic exposure to ophthalmology as a career in medical school curricula has had a global decline for decades. While most of the evidence-based interventions found in the literature have resulted in enhanced educational outcomes, ophthalmology exposure should be initiated earlier which provided an impetus for developing and implementing a structured curriculum for introducing preprofessional students to careers in ophthalmology. Educational programs offered in the pipeline from high school to college can reach students who are still undecided about higher education and career choices, thus providing an opportunity for increasing the numbers of students in medical and health professions. We describe a structured, academic curriculum model for pregraduate and undergraduate students to enhance interest and to increase academic exposure to basic clinical, research, and educational domains in ophthalmology. The Houston Methodist Hospital (HMH) Academic Institute offers an unparalleled 10-week summer student research program that matches HMH faculty members with students from multiple levels (e.g., high school, college undergraduates, and medical school). Students undergo prerequisite virtual training; attend weekly didactic lectures given by mentors, invited speakers, and other local leaders; shadow health care providers in active clinical settings as observers; participate in active research projects; present at local conferences; and are encouraged to eventually publish their work. We describe the structured curriculum from our first Summer Internship Program for High Schoolers in ophthalmology. To our knowledge an ophthalmology internship program for preprofessional students has not been previously published in the literature.

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“…The authors share specific project examples and QR tools used successfully in their classrooms and offer views on pedagogy for how to best prepare a "more confident and able teacher workforce for the next generation of K-12 students." Enderling et al (2020) have run a "High school Internship Program in Integrated Mathematical Oncology (HIP IMO)" for the past 5 years at Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida. The authors are leaders in the evolutionary therapy approach to cancer through which teachers learn about contemporary research devoted to extending peoples' lives in a dignified, respectful way that avoids the metaphorically militaristic approach.…”

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Mathematical Biology Education: Changes, Communities, Connections, and Challenges

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Mathematical biologists have been leaders in many of the programmatic efforts over the past 60 years to reform both mathematics and biology education. This issue brings together a review of initiatives that have been particularly effective as well as addressing challenges that we need to face.In planning the issue, we discussed how the variety of methods to cover mathematics for biology students have changed since the Cullowhee Conference on Training in Biomathematics held in 1961 at Western Carolina (see Rashevsky 1962) and the NRC/NAS publication of Bio 2010. When Bio 2010 initially appeared, a special conference at NIH organized by MAA brought together three funders: NSF, NIH, and HHMI to address the challenges and an edited collection of responses appeared in book format: "Math and Bio 2010: linking undergraduate disciplines" (2005) edited by Steen. Since the re-activation of the Educational Committee of the Society for Mathematical Biology in 1996, authors have been invited to submit educational articles to the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, but this is the first special issue on education. The timing for this issue is propitious because it has been ten years since a National Academy of Sciences symposium celebration of the NRC/NAS ( 2003) publication Bio 2010. While three major publications resulted from that symposium: (1) a special issue of cbe Life Science Education (2010) edited by Jungck and Marsteller; (2) a special issue of Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena (2011) edited by Jungck and Schwartz; and (3) Undergraduate Mathematics for the Life Sciences: Models, Processes, and Directions (2013) edited by Ledder, Carpenter, and Comar, there has been a significant change in the past decade and many resources were not described in

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High school Internship Program in Integrated Mathematical Oncology (HIP IMO) – five-year experience at Moffitt Cancer Center

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An Academic Ophthalmology Curriculum as a Model for Introducing Preprofessional Students to Careers in Ophthalmology

An Academic Ophthalmology Curriculum as a Model for Introducing Preprofessional Students to Careers in Ophthalmology

Mathematical Biology Education: Changes, Communities, Connections, and Challenges

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