MUSC Minority Student Development Program

MUSC 少数族裔学生发展计划

• 批准号: 7895133
• 负责人: CYNTHIA F. WRIGHT
• 金额: $ 7.1万
• 依托单位: MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-11 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7895133
• 关键词: Address; Admission activity; Advisory Committees; Awareness; Biomedical Research; Brothers; Censuses; Collaborations; Data; Development; Disadvantaged; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Educational Status; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Enrollment; Environment; Faculty; Family; Fostering; Goals; Grant; Healthcare; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Human Resources; Institutes; Institution; K-Series Research Career Programs; Laboratories; Learning; Medical; Minority; Molecular Biology; Monitor; Outcome; Population; Positioning Attribute; Postdoctoral Fellow; Process; Program Development; Publishing; Recruitment Activity; Request for Applications; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Rotation; SECTM1 gene; Schools; Science; Sister; South Carolina; Staging; Students; Techniques; Training; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; Visit; Work; Writing; base; career; career development; college; demographics; graduate student; health care quality; health disparity; human disease; improved; lectures; meetings; programs; public health relevance; responsible research conduct; symposium

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of this program is to provide doctoral training in the biomedical sciences to talented students from underrepresented groups or from disadvantaged backgrounds. The anticipated outcomes are to increase the number of underrepresented minority students choosing a research career in the biomedical sciences, enhance the quantity and quality of minority students enrolled in the doctoral program in the College of Graduate Studies, and prepare them for successful careers. We have formulated three specific aims to facilitate the matriculation, education, and graduation of minority doctoral students at MUSC. The first specific aim is to increase the number and quality of minority students seeking a research career in the biomedical sciences. This will be done by strengthening ties to many colleges and universities with significant numbers of minority students through visits and seminar presentations by faculty and IMSD scholars. Additionally, large numbers of undergraduate students and their families are invited to our campus to attend the E.E. Just Symposium and the summer undergraduate research program. In the second specific aim we seek to facilitate the progression of minority graduate students through the PhD program. Matriculating students are exposed to both faculty and senior student interactions to provide them with a network of support. We have developed a summer review course that is offered to all incoming students prior to their first semester to better prepare them for the rigors of graduate school. We propose to expand this course to include training in a basic molecular biology laboratory to give them a toolkit of techniques to use in their laboratory rotations. The third specific aim is to prepare underrepresented minority graduate students for successful careers in the biomedical sciences. We propose a career development committee to increase interaction of graduate students with professionals at the next career stages to help them successfully navigate the steps of an academic scientific career. Internal and External Advisory Committees will provide oversight for the program. In addition, the program will be evaluated using a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Public health relevance: Projections based on U.S. census data indicate that the demographics of our nation's population will change dramatically in the next fifty years, but the composition of our healthcare and biomedical research workforce does not reflect these changing demographics. The goal of this program is to attract talented students from underrepresented groups or from disadvantaged backgrounds into careers in the biomedical sciences in order to increase the supply of investigators who are conducting active research that will impact the treatment of human diseases. Diversifying the work force in these fields will result in an improved capacity to address and eliminate health disparities and improve the quality of health care nationwide.

描述（由申请人提供）：该计划的主要目标是为来自弱势群体或弱势背景的优秀学生提供生物医学科学方面的博士培训。预期成果是增加选择生物医学科学研究职业的少数族裔学生的数量，提高研究生学院博士课程的少数族裔学生的数量和质量，并为他们的成功职业生涯做好准备。我们制定了三个具体目标，以促进少数族裔博士生在 MUSC 的入学、教育和毕业。第一个具体目标是增加寻求生物医学科学研究职业的少数族裔学生的数量和质量。为此，将通过教师和 IMSD 学者的访问和研讨会演讲，加强与许多拥有大量少数民族学生的学院和大学的联系。此外，大量本科生及其家人被邀请到我们的校园参加 E.E. Just 研讨会和暑期本科生研究项目。在第二个具体目标中，我们寻求促进少数族裔研究生通过博士课程的进步。入学的学生可以接触教师和高年级学生的互动，为他们提供支持网络。我们开发了一个夏季复习课程，在所有即将入学的学生第一学期之前提供给他们，以便他们更好地为研究生院的严格要求做好准备。我们建议扩展本课程，包括在基础分子生物学实验室进行培训，为他们提供在实验室轮换中使用的技术工具包。第三个具体目标是为代表性不足的少数族裔研究生在生物医学领域取得成功做好准备。我们建议成立一个职业发展委员会，以增加研究生与下一职业阶段专业人士的互动，帮助他们成功地迈向学术科学职业生涯。内部和外部咨询委员会将为该计划提供监督。此外，该计划将采用定性和定量相结合的方法进行评估。 公共卫生相关性：基于美国人口普查数据的预测表明，我们国家的人口统计数据将在未来五十年发生巨大变化，但我们的医疗保健和生物医学研究人员的构成并不能反映这些不断变化的人口统计数据。该计划的目标是吸引来自代表性不足群体或弱势背景的优秀学生进入生物医学科学领域，以增加正在进行积极研究的研究人员的供应，这些研究将影响人类疾病的治疗。这些领域的劳动力多元化将提高解决和消除健康差距并提高全国医疗保健质量的能力。