Initiative for Maximizing Student Development

最大限度地促进学生发展的倡议

• 批准号: 8607187
• 负责人: LINDA SEALY
• 金额: $ 66.14万
• 依托单位: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-04-01 至 2016-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8607187
• 关键词: Academy; Admission activity; Award; Baltimore; Biomedical Research; Caliber; Critical Thinking; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Drops; Educational process of instructing; Environment; Faculty; Family; Fellowship; Goals; Graduate Education; Grant; Health; Individual; Industry; Institution; Intention; Journals; Knowledge; Laboratories; Leadership; Left; Letters; Literature; Medical; Mentors; Oral; Paper; Performance; Policies; Positioning Attribute; Process; Progress Reports; Qualifying; Recommendation; Recruitment Activity; Reporting; Research; Research Training; Rotation; Schools; Science; Structure; Students; Talents; Technology; Textbooks; Time; Training; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Visit; Writing; base; career; design; graduate student; high school; meetings; member; programs; public health relevance; skills

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this IMSD Proposal is to increase the number of students in graduate training who contribute to diversity in the biomedical research endeavor and promote their successful completion of the PhD degree. Our focus is upon students who have very strong letters of recommendation in terms of their research talents, but who because of weaker scores (GPA, GRE) might not gain admission into a strong biomedical graduate program. We describe a broad recruiting approach and a rigorous admission strategy. The students are extensively mentored throughout their time in the program to enable them to reach their full potential in a relatively short time period. They take an extensive and thorough didactic course in their first summer, along with a lab course designed to expose them to cutting edge technologies. This has the advantage of making these students highly competitive once they begin their rotations. The students are mentored very closely. This includes meetings with the program faculty for tutoring and advising on a weekly basis. In addition they participate fully in all of our mentoring activities for all first year biomedical graduate students. This includes a weekly IMPACT session wherein small groups of students meet with a faculty member to discuss any and all issues pertaining to graduate education, as well as a weekly FOCUS session wherein a small group of students meet with a faculty member to analyze and discuss a recent paper from the literature. Here the goal is to become entirely comfortable with gaining information from the literature rather than from a textbook. To enhance oral presentation as well as critical thinking skills, students participate in the IMSD journal club each spring. Finally, and in the long run most important, the IMSD students rotate through faculty laboratories as they choose the lab for their thesis research. We provide a performance-based program so that students exit the IMSD program after a one or two year period, depending on individual progress. So far all of our students are in good standing and progressing well, with one exception as a consequence of a serious illness.

描述（由申请人提供）：该IMSD提案的目标是增加研究生培训中的学生人数，这些学生为生物医学研究的多样性做出了贡献，并促进了他们成功地完成博士学位。我们的重点是关于他们的研究才能有很强推荐信的学生，但由于得分较弱（GPA，GRE）的学生可能不会入学强大的生物医学研究生课程。我们描述了一种广泛的招聘方法和严格的录取策略。在计划中，学生在整个计划中都得到了广泛的指导，以使他们能够在相对较短的时间内发挥自己的全部潜力。他们在第一个夏天参加了广泛而彻底的教学课程，以及旨在将其暴露于尖端技术的实验室课程。这具有使这些学生一旦开始轮换的竞争力的优势。学生受到非常密切的指导。这包括与计划教师的会议，以每周进行辅导和建议。此外，他们还在所有第一年生物医学研究生中都参加了我们所有的指导活动。这包括每周一次的影响会议，其中一小群学生会见一名教职员工，讨论与研究生教育有关的任何问题，以及每周的重点会议，其中一小群学生与一名教职员工会面，以分析并讨论文献的最新论文。在这里，目标是完全可以从文学中获得信息而不是从教科书中获得信息。为了增强口头表现以及批判性思维能力，学生每年春季参加IMSD期刊俱乐部。最后，从长远来看，最重要的是，IMSD学生在为论文研究的实验室选择实验室时旋转了教师实验室。我们提供一个基于绩效的计划，以便学生在一两年后退出IMSD计划，具体取决于个人进步。到目前为止，我们所有的学生都保持良好的信誉和进步，因为严重疾病的结果是一个例外。