Promoting Minority Students' Interest in Research

提高少数民族学生的研究兴趣

• 批准号: 6880017
• 负责人: BARRY Dale WATERHOUSE
• 金额: $ 8.31万
• 依托单位: DREXEL UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-01 至 2009-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6880017
• 关键词: Promoting; Minority; Students; Interest; Research

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The number of underrepresented minority students entering into medicine, nursing, and related health care disciplines is declining. To illustrate, in the past 5-6 years, the number of underrepresented minority students entering into our medical college has dropped by about 82% (from 50 in 1998 to 9 in 2002). This gradual decline in enrollment is not unique to our medical college, for it is observed in many institutions of higher education across the nation. A similar trend is also witnessed in graduate education programs. One key approach that could be adopted to reverse this trend is to involve underrepresented minority students in biomedical and behavioral research during the course of their undergraduate education. Drexel University College of Medicine (Drexel Med) has been educating students in biomedical sciences for over 150 years. Its recent merger with Drexel University, a respected leader in engineering and computer sciences, has unveiled yet additional opportunities. At Drexel Med, we have the required experience and the expertise to successfully initiate and implement summer research programs. We currently have three programs which offer short-term summer research training opportunities to local high school, undergraduate, and medical students. These successful programs serve as an archetype for initiating, in partnership with NHLBI, similar research opportunities for underrepresented minority students in undergraduate and graduate programs in various schools and colleges within Drexel University and at Cheyney University - the oldest black historical university in the country. Since the primary goal of NHLBI is to support research in the areas of cardiovascular, pulmonary, blood, and sleep disorders, minority students enrolled under this training grant will be assigned to one of the many (> 19) investigators in basic and clinical departments who are working in areas of similar interests. We believe that by providing such an opportunity to underrepresented minority students in undergraduate and graduate programs, we will not only enrich their academic experience but would also facilitate their entry and retention into health care related professional pathways. This outcome would meet the growing needs of our racially divergent communities and help alleviate the existing discord between the representation of minorities in the general populace as compared to that in the health care profession.

描述（由申请人提供）： 进入医学、护理和相关医疗保健学科的少数族裔学生人数正在下降。举例来说，在过去的5-6年里，进入我们医学院的少数族裔学生人数下降了约82%（从1998年的50人减少到2002年的9人）。这种入学人数逐渐下降的情况并非我们医学院所独有，全国许多高等教育机构都出现了这种情况。研究生教育项目也出现了类似的趋势。扭转这一趋势的一个关键方法是让代表性不足的少数族裔学生在本科教育过程中参与生物医学和行为研究。德雷塞尔大学医学院 (Drexel Med) 150 多年来一直致力于生物医学科学教育。它最近与工程和计算机科学领域受人尊敬的领导者德雷克塞尔大学合并，带来了更多的机会。在 Drexel Med，我们拥有成功启动和实施夏季研究项目所需的经验和专业知识。我们目前有三个项目，为当地高中生、本科生和医学生提供短期暑期研究培训机会。这些成功的项目成为与 NHLBI 合作的原型，为德雷塞尔大学和美国最古老的黑人历史大学切尼大学的各个学校和学院的本科和研究生课程中代表性不足的少数族裔学生提供类似的研究机会。由于 NHLBI 的主要目标是支持心血管、肺、血液和睡眠障碍领域的研究，因此在该培训补助金下注册的少数族裔学生将被分配给基础和临床部门的众多（> 19 名）研究人员之一正在从事相似兴趣的领域工作。我们相信，通过为本科和研究生课程中代表性不足的少数族裔学生提供这样的机会，我们不仅会丰富他们的学术经验，而且还会促进他们进入和保留医疗保健相关的专业途径。这一结果将满足我们种族不同的社区日益增长的需求，并有助于缓解少数族裔在普通大众中的代表性与医疗保健行业中的代表性之间存在的不一致。