ToxMSDT: An Innovative Toxicology Pathway mentoring program targeting underrepresented STEM students

ToxMSDT：针对代表性不足的 STEM 学生的创新毒理学途径指导计划

• 批准号: 10689039
• 负责人: Jodi A. Flaws
• 金额: $ 47.85万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-16 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10689039
• 关键词: Address; Admission activity; Adverse effects; African American population; Alaska Native; Animals; Area; Awareness; Behavioral Research; Biomedical Research; California; Case Study; Chemicals; Clinical Research; Collaborations; Complement; Computers; Country; Critical Thinking; Development; Discipline; Disparity population; Diverse Workforce; Educational Activities; Educational process of instructing; Engineering; Enrollment; Environment; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Health; Environmental Science; Ethics; Exercise; Funding Mechanisms; Funding Opportunities; Future; General Population; Goals; Government; Graduate Education; Health; Health Sciences; Hispanic Americans; Human; Individual; Industry; Institution; Internet; Internships; Iowa; Knowledge; Latino Population; Link; Mentors; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; Ohio; Organism; Outcome; Pathway interactions; Policies; Population; Problem Solving; Qualifying; Reproducibility; Research; Research Personnel; Role; STEM student; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Scientist; Societies; Solid; Source; Structure; Student recruitment; Students; Toxicology; Training; Training Activity; Training Programs; Underrepresented Populations; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Woman; Workplace; career; design; disadvantaged background; experience; flexibility; graduate school; handheld mobile device; innovation; interest; job market; novel strategies; online course; online delivery; outreach program; programs; recruit; responsible research conduct; scale up; skill acquisition; skills; skills training; student training; success; undergraduate student

Project Summary The goal of the NIMG R25 IPERT program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs. This funding opportunity encourages activities and outreach programs with a primary focus on courses for skills development, structured mentoring activities, and outreach programs to create a highly skilled and diverse workforce. A major challenge facing the toxicology profession is a lack of a diversified workforce. Although the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has recognized this problem for many years and indeed has tried to address it through different funding mechanisms, the number of underrepresented individuals in the toxicology profession remains disappointingly low. Therefore, a new approach is needed to close the gap. One of the shortcomings of recruiting undergraduates into the toxicology graduate research programs is a lack of undergraduate toxicology training programs in the country. Toxicology is taught starting at graduate level. Because of the lack of awareness and knowledge about toxicology and its role in the protection of human, animal, and environmental health, undergraduates with interest in pursuing graduate education naturally will not consider it as an option. UC Davis in Davis, CA, in partnership with The Society of Toxicology (SOT), are collaborating with Iowa State University (ISU) in Ames, IA , Tuskegee University (TU), Tuskegee, AL, and The Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus OH, to deliver a one-year long undergraduate toxicology mentoring and skills development training (ToxMSDT) program. ToxMSDT has two specific aims. Specific Aim #1: Delivery of a mentoring program to underrepresented undergraduate students enrolled in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Specific Aim #2: Delivery of an online training program consisting of case studies and short e-modules for skills development. This innovative flexible online program is accessible on mobile devices as well as from computers connected to the internet and is open to the general public 24/7. In this regard, this is a unique toxicology outreach program. We propose increase enrollment to 20 undergraduate students each year and to expand recruitment nationally, inclusive of all underrepresented segments of the US population. Expected outcomes of this unique training program include: a) at least 65% of program alumni engaging in subsequent research programs, internships or other relevant activities in toxicology or a related area in the biomedical sciences professions; b) at least 50% of program alumni applying to toxicology, or related biomedical sciences graduate programs or joining the toxicology workforce; c) a sustained network of toxicology students, researchers and professionals committed to expanding toxicology mentoring and career opportunities for underrepresented segments of the US population.

项目摘要 NIMG R25 IPERT计划的目标是支持补充和/或增强的教育活动 培训劳动力以满足美国的生物医学，行为和临床研究需求。 资金机会鼓励活动和推广计划，主要关注技能课程 开发，结构化的心理活动和外展计划，以创建高技能和潜水员 劳动力。毒理学专业面临的一个重大挑战是缺乏多样化的劳动力。虽然 国家环境健康科学研究所（NIEHS）多年来认识到这个问题， 确实试图通过不同的资金机制来解决它，代表人数不足 毒理学专业中的个人仍然令人失望。因此，需要一种新的方法 缩小差距。招募本科生进入毒理学研究生研究的缺点之一 计划是该国缺乏本科毒理学培训计划。毒理学开始了 在研究生层面。由于缺乏对毒理学及其在其中的作用的认识和知识 保护人类，动物和环境健康，有兴趣追求研究生的本科生 教育自然不会将其视为一种选择。加利福尼亚州戴维斯的加州大学戴维斯分校与协会合作 毒理学（SOT）与爱荷华州立大学（ISU）合作 俄亥俄州俄亥俄州俄亥俄州立大学（OSU）的Tuskegee，俄亥俄州俄亥俄州，提供一年的本科生 毒理学心理和技能发展培训（TOXMSDT）计划。 ToxMSDT具有两个具体的目标。 特定目的＃1：交付心理计划，以招收的代表性不足的本科生 科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）。特定目标＃2：交付在线培训计划 包括案例研究和技能开发的简短电子模型。这个创新的灵活在线计划 可以在移动设备以及连接到Internet的计算机上访问，并向一般开放 公共24/7。在这方面，这是一个独特的毒理学外展计划。我们建议将入学人数增加到20 每年的本科生，并在全国范围内扩大招聘，包括所有人数不足的人 美国人口的细分市场。该独特培训计划的预期结果包括：a）至少65％ 计划校友从事随后的研究计划，实习或其他相关活动 毒理学或生物医学专业的相关领域； b）至少有50％的计划校友申请 毒理学或相关的生物医学研究生课程或加入毒理学劳动力； c）a 致力于扩大毒理学的毒理学学生，研究人员和专业人士的持续网络 美国人口中代表性不足的领域的指导和职业机会。