Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity in the Biomedical Sciences at Norther

诺瑟大学生物医学科学学生多样性最大化倡议

• 批准号: 8060558
• 负责人: Alice Coulter Gibb
• 金额: $ 23.66万
• 依托单位: NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-04-01 至 2014-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8060558
• 关键词: Academic achievement; Achievement; Address; Affect; Area; Arizona; Awareness; Binding; Biology; Biomedical Research; Chemistry; Communities; Country; Electrical Engineering; Elements; Enrollment; Evaluation; Faculty; Goals; Health; Hispanics; Indian reservation; Individual; Laboratories; Learning; Light; Measurable; Medical; Mentors; Mentorship; Minority; Native Americans; Outcome; Participant; Population; Population Programs; Problem Solving; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; School Enrollments; Schools; Science; Self Efficacy; Staging; Students; Target Populations; Thinking; Training; Training Programs; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; career; expectation; experience; graduate student; health disparity; improved; instrument; interest; member; minority health; programs; public health relevance; social; success

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Northern Arizona University (NAU) has one of the largest Native American student enrollments in the country, and has a large and increasing Hispanic enrollment. The IMSD program at NAU seeks to improve retention, academic achievement and, ultimately, graduate school enrollment of underrepresented minority students in biomedical research fields. To this end, the highly successful program at NAU will continue with a revised programmatic focus: lower-division undergraduates will participate in culturally relevant scientific research in the labs of select faculty mentors from the departments of Biology, Chemistry and Electrical Engineering. Through a combination of hands-on research experience and prescribed coursework, students will be made aware of minority health disparities and learn how biomedical research can address current health challenges facing minority communities. Enlisting students in research at an early stage of their academic career and providing intensive mentoring will promote retention in the program and the university. Providing students from underrepresented minority backgrounds, particularly Native American students, with opportunities to conduct research in culturally relevant research areas will increase students' interest in biomedical research as a career and improve students' self-efficacy as biomedical researchers. The program will be evaluated annually to address the following overarching question: What are the individual, social and structural factors that promote student success in the IMSD program and, ultimately, in biomedical research careers? Of particular interest to this program is a related question: How does awareness of minority health disparities affect inclination toward a biomedical research career? Expectations for success of the program are framed in the context of the unique URM student population and in light of results of past IMSD programs at this university. Achievement of the following outcomes will indicate program success: (1) retention of 75% of the students enrolled in the IMSD program from year 1 to year 2, (2) successful completion of the 2-year training program by >60% of initial program participants, (3) measurable success of the program in increasing interest in biomedical research careers as quantified using the proposed evaluation instruments, (3) placement of >50% of the initial program participants into graduate school in biomedical sciences by year 4, (4) completion of two degrees by IMSD doctoral students at NAU by year 4. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: There is a critical need for biomedical professionals on Native American reservations, as well as a national need for greater representation of Native Americans and other underrepresented minorities in all career areas in the biomedical sciences. The IMSD program at Northern Arizona University seeks to inspire Native Americans and members of other underrepresented minorities to pursue careers in biomedical research science by providing them with hands-on training opportunities and introducing them to culturally relevant research topics, such as minority health disparities. By increasing the participation of underrepresented groups, the IMSD program will bring a diversity of perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds to key medical questions, which will ultimately facilitate a higher level of problem solving and creative thinking in these health-related research areas.

描述（由申请人提供）：北亚利桑那大学 (NAU) 是美国本土学生入学人数最多的大学之一，并且拥有大量且不断增加的西班牙裔学生。 NAU 的 IMSD 项目旨在提高生物医学研究领域代表性不足的少数族裔学生的保留率、学业成绩，并最终提高其研究生入学率。为此，北亚利桑那大学非常成功的项目将继续进行，并修改项目重点：低年级本科生将在生物、化学和电气工程系精选教师导师的实验室中参与文化相关的科学研究。通过结合实践研究经验和规定的课程，学生将了解少数族裔的健康差异，并了解生物医学研究如何解决少数族裔社区当前面临的健康挑战。在学生学术生涯的早期阶段招募学生参与研究并提供强化指导将有助于提高学生在该项目和大学中的保留率。为来自少数族裔背景的学生，特别是美国原住民学生，提供在文化相关研究领域进行研究的机会，将增加学生对生物医学研究作为职业的兴趣，并提高学生作为生物医学研究人员的自我效能。该项目将每年进行一次评估，以解决以下首要问题：促进学生在 IMSD 项目以及最终在生物医学研究生涯中取得成功的个人、社会和结构因素是什么？该计划特别感兴趣的是一个相关问题：对少数族裔健康差异的认识如何影响对生物医学研究职业的倾向？对项目成功的期望是根据独特的 URM 学生群体和该大学过去的 IMSD 项目的结果来制定的。实现以下成果将表明项目成功：(1) 第 1 年至第 2 年注册 IMSD 项目的学生中有 75% 的保留率，(2) 成功完成 2 年培训项目，超过初始培训的 60%计划参与者，(3) 使用拟议的评估工具量化该计划在增加对生物医学研究职业的兴趣方面取得的可衡量的成功，(3) 按年将超过 50% 的初始计划参与者安置到生物医学科学研究生院4, (4) IMSD 博士生在第 4 年完成 NAU 的两个学位。 公共卫生相关性：美洲原住民保留地迫切需要生物医学专业人员，并且全国需要在生物医学科学的所有职业领域增加美洲原住民和其他代表性不足的少数族裔的代表性。北亚利桑那大学的 IMSD 项目旨在通过为美国原住民和其他代表性不足的少数族裔成员提供实践培训机会并向他们介绍文化相关的研究主题（例如少数族裔健康差异），激励他们从事生物医学研究科学研究。通过增加代表性不足群体的参与，IMSD 项目将为关键医学问题带来多样化的观点、经验和背景，这最终将促进这些健康相关研究领域更高水平的问题解决和创造性思维。