Dr. Bush, Chair of Biostatistics Department, Assisted with the Summer Youth Program at UK
UK Healthcare has participated in the Summer Health Career Camps for a number of years now and just wrapped up the summer with their latest group of participants.
Local area high school Juniors and Seniors are invited to participate in a 15-25 hour per week position with a department on campus. The program is 6 weeks long and ran from June 7-July 19 in 2019. Throughout this 6 week program students have career development opportunities through workshops with UK staff and their fellow students within the program.
One participant, Stephanie Yang, worked with the Department of Biostatistics to complete quality control checks on information for one of Dr. Bush's grants, McBEE (Multi-College Bystander Efficacy Evaluation), which is a program that seeks to evaluate bystander programming across college campuses within the US. She helped to ensure the quality and accuracy of executive summary reports that will be sent out to schools this month. This provided Stephanie with some hands on experience about data analysis best practices.
She also assisted in gathering Clery data for the McBEE project. Clery data is part of a federally mandated reporting requirement of universities to disclose campus crime statistics. As the department compiles information across various US colleges, this information is extremely important for overall reporting. This task allowed Stephanie to learn a bit of information about SAS programming, a statistical software often utilized to analyze data.
Finally, she helped develop a survey module for the Wellness, Health and You project, led by Drs. Coker & Bush. With this project she assisted researchers by stream lining previously utilized survey questionnaires to include Likert scales. This helped Stephanie to gain some first-hand experience about developing data collection tools that are easily completed by participants and utilize methods that are more easily analyzed.
We would like to congratulate Stephanie and the other program particiapants for all their hard work this summer!