Endocrine Network for Undergraduate Research and Carrier Development Opportunitie

本科生研究和载体发展机会内分泌网络

• 批准号: 8626413
• 负责人: STEVEN M ANDERSON
• 金额: $ 26.24万
• 依托单位: ENDOCRINE SOCIETY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-03-01 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8626413
• 关键词: Academia; Address; Admission activity; Affect; African American; Area; Award; Basic Science; Biological Sciences; Biomedical Research; Career Choice; Clinical Research; Communities; Country; Coupled; Development; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Endocrine; Endocrine System Diseases; Endocrinology; Engineering; Enrollment; Environment; Event; Exposure to; Faculty; Future; Goals; Growth; Hispanic Americans; Home environment; Industry; Institution; Internet; Internships; Interview; Laboratories; Medical Research; Mentors; Mentorship; Minority; Minority-Serving Institution; Monitor; Native Americans; Newsletter; Outcome; Participant; Pharmacologic Substance; Population; Positioning Attribute; Principal Investigator; Private Sector; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Resources; Role; Schools; Science; Scientist; Societies; Students; Sum; Testing; Time; Training; Training Activity; Translational Research; Travel; Underrepresented Minority; Work; base; career; career development; design; experience; interest; meetings; member; peer; posters; programs; research and development; role model; success; undergraduate research; volunteer

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Endocrine Society has established a training network for undergraduate research and career development support serving underrepresented minority students termed the Minority Access Program (MAP). This program was designed to enhance the pipeline of minority scientists that become biomedical researchers. The MAP will focus upon recruitment of undergraduates from a select group of minority serving institutions and offer these students summer internships for two consecutive summers at one of four medical research centers. MAP students will conduct basic research in the laboratories of Endocrine Society members at these four institutions. These four medical research centers have established summer research internship programs into which the MAP students will be integrated, as well as nationally recognized divisions of endocrinology with well established research programs in basic and translational science. MAP students will attend the Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society early during their first year in the program to engage in training events held at the meeting, to gain a broad exposure to the field of endocrinology, and to gain an understanding of what will be expected of them in the future years. In the second year of the program, the MAP students will again conduct research at either the same or at a different training institution. Second year students will also present posters at a special poster session at the Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society, in addition to attending education and career development events at this meeting. This program will test the hypothesis that engaging in research and career development training events held in the context of a professional society will increase the self-identity of students as biomedical researchers, enhance their commitment and success to enter graduate school to obtain a Ph.D., and increase the number of these students that undertake careers as scientists in either an academic or industrial (pharmaceutical or biotech) setting. The MAP provides an enhancement to the training activities currently offered at the students' home institutions, that we believe will increase commitment to a career in biomedical research by creating personal, supportive mentoring within The Endocrine Society such that students can visualize a role for themselves in a professional community. We predict that conducting biomedical research on endocrine-related disorders in the context of specific training events held both at the Annual Meeting and at summer training institutions coupled with year round mentoring conducted in an internet-based environment will enhance the professional development of these students. Short-term outcomes include increased GPA and GRE scores for MAP students and the number of MAP students entering graduate school compared to peers at the home undergraduate institutions and in summer research programs. Long-term goals are increased postdoctoral studies compared to fellow summer program students at the summer training institutions and eventually entry into a research career in either an academic or industrial setting. RELEVANCE: The under representation of minorities in the sciences continues to be a major concern, not only of academia, but also of society in general. In fact, based on the rapidly growing increase in certain segments of underrepresented minority populations, this issue has become a national concern. The Endocrine Society efforts to address these issues has been focused on increasing the number of students exposed to endocrinology and other related scientific fields usually not covered in their regular curriculum. Working with minority serving institutions (MSIs), endocrine research training institutions and Society volunteers, the MAP aims to create a training network that will enhance the pipeline of minority scientists and, in turn, impact the treatment of disorders that disproportionately affect minority communities.

描述（由申请人提供）：内分泌学会建立了一个培训网络，为本科生研究和职业发展提供支持，为代表性不足的少数族裔学生提供服务，称为少数族裔访问计划 (MAP)。该计划旨在加强少数族裔科学家成为生物医学研究人员的渠道。 MAP 将重点从选定的少数族裔服务机构中招募本科生，并为这些学生提供连续两个暑期在四个医学研究中心之一的暑期实习机会。 MAP学生将在这四个机构的内分泌学会成员的实验室中进行基础研究。这四个医学研究中心设立了暑期研究实习项目（MAP 学生将融入其中），以及国家认可的内分泌学部门，在基础科学和转化科学方面拥有完善的研究项目。 MAP 学生将在项目第一年尽早参加内分泌学会年会，参加会议上举行的培训活动，广泛接触内分泌学领域，并了解预期的内容他们在未来几年。在该计划的第二年，MAP 学生将再次在同一或不同的培训机构进行研究。二年级学生除了参加本次会议的教育和职业发展活动外，还将在内分泌学会年会上的特别海报会议上展示海报。该计划将检验以下假设：参与在专业协会背景下举行的研究和职业发展培训活动将增加学生作为生物医学研究人员的自我认同，增强他们进入研究生院获得博士学位的承诺和成功.，并增加在学术或工业（制药或生物技术）环境中从事科学家职业的学生数量。 MAP 增强了学生所在机构目前提供的培训活动，我们相信，通过在内分泌学会内创建个人支持性指导，学生可以想象自己在生物医学研究中的角色，从而增强对生物医学研究职业的承诺。一个专业社区。我们预计，在年会和夏季培训机构举办的具体培训活动中开展内分泌相关疾病的生物医学研究，加上在互联网环境下进行的全年指导，将促进这些学生的专业发展。短期成果包括与国内本科院校和暑期研究项目的同龄人相比，MAP 学生的 GPA 和 GRE 分数提高，以及进入研究生院的 MAP 学生数量增加。长期目标是与暑期培训机构的暑期项目学生相比，增加博士后研究，并最终进入学术或工业环境的研究生涯。 相关性：少数群体在科学领域的代表性不足仍然是一个主要问题，不仅是学术界，也是整个社会。事实上，由于某些少数族裔人口的迅速增加，这个问题已经成为全国关注的问题。内分泌学会解决这些问题的努力重点是增加接触内分泌学和其他通常未包含在常规课程中的相关科学领域的学生数量。 MAP 与少数族裔服务机构 (MSI)、内分泌研究培训机构和社会志愿者合作，旨在创建一个培训网络，以增强少数族裔科学家的人才梯队，进而影响对少数族裔社区影响尤为严重的疾病的治疗。