Bridge to the Doctoral Degress: University of Puerto Ri*

通往博士学位的桥梁：波多黎各大学*

• 批准号: 6829488
• 负责人: MICHAEL J LEIBOWITZ
• 金额: $ 18.02万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF MED/DENT NJ-R W JOHNSON MED SCH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-30 至 2007-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6829488
• 关键词: Puerto Rico; education evaluation /planning; health science profession; health science research potential; medical education; minority health professional; postgraduate education; science education

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal seeks to renew the "Bridge to the Doctoral Degree: UPR to UMDNJ", which has been assisting underrepresented minority (URM) graduate students in making the transition from the M.S. Program in Biology at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Campus into the Ph.D. Programs in the Molecular Biosciences at UMDNJ Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS),Piscataway Campus. These Ph.D. programs represent a collaborative effort between UMDNJ-GSBS and the contiguous Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU). The M.S. in Biology Program at UPR-Mayaguez has a student population that is predominantly Puerto Rican, but the Program does not extend to a Ph.D. program to prepare students for careers as senior investigators in the biomedical sciences. However, UPR-Mayaguez has a long record of producing excellent candidates for the Ph.D. at other institutions, including at UMDNJ-GSBS, Piscataway and RU. To facilitate the transition of M.S. candidates at UPR-Mayaguez, this three-year Program was established, consisting of one year of course work at UPR-Mayaguez, followed by course work and research at UMDNJ. Students completing this Bridge program receive the M.S. degree from UPR and are admitted with advanced standing into the Ph.D. programs at UMDNJ-GSBS, interfacing with the existing UMDNJ-Rutgers University Pipeline Program, which supports URM candidates for the Ph.D. in their initial years of study. Now in the 6th year, we have enrolled eleven students in the program. Of these, 8 are progressing toward the M.S. or Ph.D. degrees. Three students have successfully bridged into the Ph.D. phase, with 2 of these now at an advanced level of their thesis work. Four others are in the Masters' phase. During the 5 years of the program, 4 students left the program in their first year or the beginning of their second year; 1 of these is in a Ph.D. program elsewhere, and one entered medical school in Puerto Rico. We continue to modify the program to deal with issues of recruitment and selection of appropriate students, preparation in Mayaguez, acclimatization during the transfer from Mayaguez to Piscataway, and program flexibility in Piscataway. This program continues to increase opportunities for talented Puerto Rican students at Mayaguez, and to increase the number of URM students in the Ph.D. program of UMDNJ and Rutgers, thereby expanding the range of students entering biomedical research careers at the Ph.D. level.

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案旨在续签“通往博士学位的桥梁：UPR到Umdnj”，该学位一直在协助代表性不足的少数民族（URM）研究生从M.S.过渡到过渡。波多黎各大学校园的生物学计划进入博士学位。 Piscataway校园的Umdnj生物医学研究生院（GSB）的分子生物科学课程。这些博士计划代表了Umdnj-GSB和New Jersey州立大学（RU）连续的Rutgers之间的合作努力。硕士在UPR-Mayaguez的生物学计划中，学生人数主要是波多黎各人，但该计划并未扩展到博士学位。计划为学生准备职业生物医学科学高级研究人员的计划。但是，UPR-Mayaguez在为博士学位提供出色的候选人方面有很长的记录。在其他机构，包括在Umdnj-GSB，Piscataway和Ru。促进M.S.的过渡这项为期三年的计划是UPR-Mayaguez的候选人，由UPR-Mayaguez的一年工作组成，然后在Umdnj进行课程工作和研究。完成此桥梁计划的学生将获得硕士学位来自UPR的学位，并获得高级博士学位。 UMDNJ-GSB的计划与现有的Umdnj-Rutgers University Pipeline计划接触，该计划支持博士学位的URM候选人。在他们的最初学习中。现在，在第六年，我们已经招募了11名学生参加该计划。其中，8正在朝向硕士或博士学位学位。三名学生成功地涉足博士学位。阶段，其中有2个现在在其论文工作的高级水平上。另外四个人处于主人阶段。在该计划的5年中，有4名学生在第一年或第二年开始就离开了该计划；其中1是在博士学位上。在其他地方的计划，其中一所进入波多黎各的医学院。我们继续修改该计划，以处理招聘和选择适当的学生的问题，在Mayaguez的准备，从Mayaguez到Piscataway的转移期间的适应性以及Piscataway的计划灵活性。该计划继续增加玛雅格斯（Mayaguez）才华横溢的波多黎各学生的机会，并增加博士学位的URM学生人数。 Umdnj和Rutgers的计划，从而扩大了从博士学位的生物医学研究职业的学生范围。等级。