Short-Term Training Program to Increase Diversity in Health-Related Research

增加健康相关研究多样性的短期培训计划

• 批准号: 8687720
• 负责人: SUZANNE M. DE LA MONTE
• 金额: $ 9.94万
• 依托单位: BROWN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-06-01 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8687720
• 关键词: Accounting; Address; Area; Biomedical Research; Cardiovascular system; Disabled Persons; Disadvantaged; Discipline; Disease; Doctor of Medicine; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Ensure; Environment; Faculty; Fostering; Funding; Future; Goals; Graduate Degree; Habits; Health; Healthcare; Individual; Internships; Learning; Life; Life Style; Lung; Measures; Medicine; Mentors; Minority Groups; Modeling; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Outcome; Participant; Population; Population Heterogeneity; Process; Productivity; Public Health; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Training; Science; Scientist; Side; Sleep Disorders; Staging; Students; Technology; Training; Training Programs; Training Support; Underrepresented Minority; United States; Universities; Work; abstracting; base; biomedical profession; biomedical scientist; career; experience; graduate student; improved; insight; interest; meetings; member; peer; programs; prospective; skills; social; socioeconomics; success; undergraduate student; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Brown University Short-Term Training Program supports the training of 15 under-represented (minority and disadvantaged) undergraduate students each year to complete 9-week, faculty mentored summer research internships. The program recruits students from a national pool and provides them with early research training experience in cardiovascular, pulmonary, hematologic and sleep disorders research. This program has existed at Brown for the past 18 years. Over the life of the program 1 of every 15 trainees mentored has become a faculty member and ~3 of every 15 trainees mentored has earned advanced terminal graduate degrees such as the M.D. /PhD, or the PhD degree. The current proposal seeks renewal of this successful program. By doing so, we will continue to replenish and diversify the biomedical fields by supporting the training of under-represented racial & ethnic minorities, disabled and other disadvantaged individuals. This will be achieved by providing students from these under-represented groups with a) research training experiences with outstanding faculty mentors at Brown, b) enriching peer mentoring and self-affirming activities led by UR graduate students from the same backgrounds and c) engaging in activities that model the career lifestyle and habits of scholars. The latter includes participating in research forums, attending and participating seminars and engaging in social activities. The participatory learning activities of our program will help to motivate trainees to pursue careers i the biomedical sciences. Moreover, by continuing this program we will expand the research opportunities & training experiences for under-represented students that would otherwise not be available to them. This will help to foster a stronger and more career oriented outlook among participants. Inevitably, this will help to preserve the U.S. global competitiveness in the areas o science, medicine, healthcare technology and education. (End of Abstract)

描述（由申请人提供）：布朗大学短期培训计划每年支持培训 15 名代表性不足（少数族裔和弱势群体）本科生，以完成为期 9 周、由教师指导的暑期研究实习。该项目从全国范围内招募学生，并为他们提供心血管、肺、血液和睡眠障碍研究方面的早期研究培训经验。该项目在布朗大学已经存在了 18 年。在该计划的整个生命周期中，每 15 名接受指导的学员中就有 1 名成为教职人员，每 15 名接受指导的学员中约有 3 名获得了高级终端研究生学位，例如医学博士/博士或博士学位。当前的提案寻求延续这一成功的计划。通过这样做，我们将通过支持对代表性不足的种族和少数民族、残疾人和其他弱势群体的培训，继续充实生物医学领域并使其多样化。这将通过为来自这些代表性不足群体的学生提供a）与布朗大学杰出教师导师一起进行研究培训经验来实现，b）由来自相同背景的UR研究生领导的丰富的同伴指导和自我肯定活动以及c）参与塑造学者职业生活方式和习惯的活动。后者包括参加研究论坛、出席和参加研讨会以及从事社会活动。我们计划的参与式学习活动将有助于激励学员追求生物医学科学的职业生涯。此外，通过继续该计划，我们将为代表性不足的学生提供更多的研究机会和培训经验，否则他们将无法获得这些机会。这将有助于在参与者中培养更强大、更以职业为导向的前景。这不可避免地有助于保持美国在科学、医学、医疗保健技术和教育领域的全球竞争力。 （摘要完）