Virginia Commonwealth University Initiative for Maximizing Student Development

弗吉尼亚联邦大学最大化学生发展倡议

• 批准号: 8636834
• 负责人: LOUIS J DE FELICE
• 金额: $ 34.52万
• 依托单位: VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-15 至 2018-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8636834
• 关键词: Academic achievement; Address; Awareness; Biology; Biomedical Research; CCL7 gene; Career Choice; Communication; Complement; Critical Thinking; Data; Development; Discipline; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational Status; Educational workshop; Enrollment; Ensure; Funding; Future; Goals; Healthcare; Humanities; Individual; Intervention; Leadership; Medicine; Mentors; Methods; Monitor; Paper; Performance; Personality; Positioning Attribute; Problem Solving; Productivity; Program Development; Publishing; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Science; Self Efficacy; Students; System; Testing; Training; Training Programs; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Virginia; Visit; Vocational Guidance; Work; career; career development; college; design; experience; graduate student; improved; insight; interest; medical schools; minority trainee; novel; novel strategies; peer; pre-doctoral; programs; public health relevance; skills; success; symposium; undergraduate research; undergraduate student; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) IMSD program was prompted by a self-study that indicated underrepresented minority (URM) undergraduates in STEM-H majors and PhD students in the biomedical sciences were underperforming in their academic programs. The aims of the original proposal were focused on PhD students in the biomedical sciences and Biology undergraduates and were largely designed to increase (a) numbers of URM biology majors who remained in the major, participated in undergraduate research, enrolled in biomedical PhD programs after completing the degree, and completed the PhD in biomedical disciplines and (b) improve academic performance and research productivity of URM students in the biomedical sciences. During the current period of support we have made significant progress towards achieving these goals. The program supported 23 URM undergraduates who participated in mentored research and provided academic/ career counseling to these individuals and countless more through the Undergraduate Research Coordinator in Biology, a position developed through a partnership between VCU-IMSD, VCU-MARC, and the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences. Both of the IMSD Undergraduate Scholars have finished the degree to date are pursuing additional training in the biomedical sciences. Seventy five percent of supported VCU-IMSD PhD students are making good progress towards their degrees and the first of these individuals will complete the PhD in spring or summer of 2013. We view these data as evidence that VCU-IMSD "is working", but also recognize the need for further program development to increase our success rate and improve the quality of the experience that we provide to trainees. To accomplish those goals, the specific aims of this competitive renewal are: (1) To provide mentored research experiences for 16 IMSD Undergraduate Scholars/ year and 4 IMSD PhD students/ year, (2): To use both well-tested and novel strategies to increase academic success of IMSD trainees, (3) To design and deliver enrichment activities that develop trainees' critical thinking/ problem solving skills, improve communications skills, increase awareness of careers that complement their interests and personalities, (4) To ensure that at least 60% of IMSD Undergraduate Scholars enroll in competitive PhD programs in the biomedical sciences, (5) To ensure that e 90% of IMSD Scholars who enroll complete PhD programs in the biomedical sciences, (6) To use aggressive recruiting strategies to increase URM applications to the Biomedical Sciences Doctoral Portal by 100%, and (7) To increase productivity of URM PhD students to be comparable to that of their peers. Focused mentoring and careful selection of research mentors will be used to enhance productivity of IMSD PhD students. We believe our aims are achievable and consistent with the goals of the IMSD Program "to develop the pool of a diverse group of highly trained undergraduate and graduate students who go on to research careers and will be available to participate in NIH-funded research."

描述（由申请人提供）：弗吉尼亚州联邦大学（VCU）IMSD计划是由自学的提示，该计划表明，在STEM-H专业的少数群体（URM）的本科生和生物医学科学博士学位的学生的学术课程中不足。原始提案的目的集中于生物医学科学和生物学本科生的博士学位学生，并且在很大程度上旨在增加（a）（a）曾在本科研究中参与生物医学博士学位课程的URM Biology专业人数。该学位，并完成了生物医学学科的博士学位，（b）提高了生物医学科学中URM学生的学习成绩和研究生产力。在当前的支持时期，我们在实现这些目标方面取得了重大进展。该计划支持了参加指导研究的23名URM大学生，并通过生物学的本科研究协调员为这些人提供了学术/职业咨询，这是通过VCU-IMSD，VCU-MARC和VCU College之间的合作伙伴关系而发展的。人文和科学。迄今为止，IMSD的两位本科学者都在接受生物医学科学的额外培训。 75％的支持VCU-IMSD博士学位的学生在学位上取得了良好的进步，这些人中的第一个将在2013年春季或夏季完成博士学位。我们将这些数据视为VCU-IMSD“正在工作”，但还认识到需要进一步的计划开发以提高我们的成功率并提高我们为受训者提供的经验质量。为了实现这些目标，这种竞争性更新的具体目标是：（1）为16个IMSD本科学者/年提供指导的研究经验和4年IMSD Phd学生/年（2）：使用经过良好测试和新颖的策略为了提高IMSD学员的学术成就，（3）设计和提供充实的活动，以发展受训者的批判性思维/解决问题技能，提高沟通能力，提高对他们的兴趣和个性的职业认识，（4）确保在IMSD本科学者中至少有60％参加生物医学科学的竞争博士学位课程，（5），以确保E 90％的IMSD学者在生物医学科学中录取完整的博士学位课程，（6）使用积极的招聘策略来增加URM URM URM URM招聘策略生物医学博士门户网站的申请增加了100％，（7）提高URM PhD学生的生产率，以与同龄人相当。专注的指导和仔细选择研究导师将用于提高IMSD博士学位学生的生产力。我们认为，我们的目标是可以实现的，并且与IMSD计划的目标一致，“开发了一群训练有素的本科生和研究生，他们将继续从事研究职业，并可以参加NIH资助的研究。”