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向来自代表性不足的团体或弱势背景的才华横溢的学生提供生物医学科学的博士培训。预期的结果是增加代表性不足的少数民族学生的数量，选择了在生物医学科学领域的研究职业，提高了研究生研究学院博士课程的少数族裔学生的数量和质量，并为成功的职业做好准备。我们已经制定了三个具体目标，以促进MUSC少数族裔博士生的入学，教育和毕业。第一个具体目的是增加寻求生物医学研究生涯的少数族裔学生的数量和质量。这将通过通过教师和IMSD学者的访问和研讨会演讲来加强与许多具有少数少数族裔学生的大学的关系来完成。此外，大量的本科生及其家人被邀请到我们的校园参加E.E. Just Commposium和夏季本科研究计划。在第二个特定目标中，我们试图通过博士学位课程促进少数群体研究生的发展。学历的学生与教职员工和高级学生互动接触，以为他们提供支持网络。我们已经开发了夏季审查课程，该课程将在第一学期之前向所有新来的学生提供，以更好地为研究生院的严格做准备。我们建议扩大本课程，以在基本的分子生物学实验室中进行培训，以使其具有用于实验室旋转的技术工具包。第三个具体的目的是为少数群体的研究生做好准备，以使生物医学的成功职业生涯。我们提出了一个职业发展委员会，旨在在下一个职业阶段增加研究生与专业人士的互动，以帮助他们成功地驾驶学术科学职业的步骤。内部和外部咨询委员会将为该计划提供监督。此外，将使用定性和定量方法的组合评估该程序。 公共卫生相关性：基于美国人口普查数据的预测表明，在未来五十年中，我们国家人口的人口统计学将发生巨大变化，但是我们的医疗保健和生物医学研究人员的组成并不反映这些不断变化的人口统计信息。该计划的目的是吸引来自代表性不足的群体的才华横溢的学生或在生物医学科学的职业中吸引职业，以增加正在进行积极研究的研究人员的供应，这些研究人员正在进行影响人类疾病的治疗。使这些领域的劳动力多样化将提高解决和消除健康差异并提高全国医疗保健质量的能力。