Case Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP)

案例 学士后研究教育计划 (PREP)

• 批准号: 7136544
• 负责人: ALISON K HALL
• 金额: $ 25.63万
• 依托单位: CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-08-01 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7136544
• 关键词: career; health science profession; health science research potential; mentoring /mentor; minority health professional; performance; psychological tests; training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A major challenge for the scientific community is to increase the participation of underrepresented minority students in biomedical research and subsequent leadership in the professoriate. For example, less than 10% of students in Case SOM biomedical PhD programs come from underrepresented minorities (URMs), and 2% of our full time faculty are URM. To address this need, this proposal is designed to prepare underrepresented minority students who hold a recent baccalaureate degree with additional research training, coursework and student development to successfully transition into biomedical doctoral programs. This proposal requests funds to support 12 students per year (six in the first year) to engage in research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology and microbiology, neuroscience, nutrition, pathology, pharmacology or physiology and biophysics. The program will coordinate the expertise of the faculty in an integrated postgraduate training program. Participating faculty mentors all have active and well-funded research programs that contribute to a lively and stimulating scientific environment. In addition to one-two years laboratory experience, students will complete academic coursework to augment their quantitative and biomedical foundation and acquire professional presentation skills. Further, students will have direct tutoring in standardized test preparation and assistance in the preparation of graduate school applications. The participating mentors are located at Case School of Medicine and already interact in the training of graduate students throughout our interdisciplinary PhD programs. The Institution has demonstrated continued success in attracting underrepresented minority students into our medical programs, and will focus that experience now in increasing minority matriculation into graduate programs. Students will be recruited from a national pool of applicants using comprehensive recruitment strategies. Each aim is associated with measurable outcomes that assay science interest, matriculation into graduate and other programs, changes in standardized tests as well as information about program efficacy. This combination of interventions is designed to convey the excitement and culture of scientific research along with the academic and programmatic preparation to students and prepare them to transition to graduate school and a biomedical research career.

描述（由申请人提供）：科学界的一个主要挑战是增加代表性不足的少数群体参与生物医学研究以及随后在教授中的领导。例如，如果SOM生物医学博士学位课程来自代表性不足的少数民族（URMS），则只有不到10％的学生，我们的全职教师中有2％是URM。为了满足这一需求，该提案旨在为代表性不足的少数民族学生做好准备，这些学生拥有近期的学士学位，并通过额外的研究培训，课程和学生发展，以成功地过渡到生物医学博士课程。 该提案要求资金每年支持12名学生（第一年为6名），以研究生物化学，遗传学，分子生物学和微生物学，神经科学，营养，病理学，药理学或生理学和生物物理学。该计划将在综合研究生培训计划中协调教师的专业知识。参与的教师指导都有积极且资金充足的研究计划，为生动活泼的科学环境做出了贡献。除了一二年的实验室经验外，学生还将完成学术课程，以增强其定量和生物医学基础并获得专业演讲技巧。此外，学生将直接辅导标准化的测试准备和帮助研究生院申请的帮助。参与的导师位于案例医学院，并且已经在整个跨学科博士学位课程的研究生培训中进行了互动。该机构在吸引代表性不足的少数族裔学生进入我们的医疗计划方面取得了持续的成功，现在将重点将这种经验集中在将少数族裔入学到研究生课程中。将使用全面的招聘策略从全国申请人群中招募学生。每个目标都与可测量的结果相关，这些结果分析了科学兴趣，入学对研究生和其他计划，标准化测试的变化以及有关程序功效的信息。这种干预措施的结合旨在传达科学研究的兴奋和文化以及学术和程序化的准备，并为学生做好准备，并准备过渡到研究生院和生物医学研究职业。