Enhancing Successful Post-Baccalaureate Intervention to Promote Research Careers

加强成功的学士后干预以促进研究职业

• 批准号: 7676166
• 负责人: Terry Ann Krulwich
• 金额: $ 42.38万
• 依托单位: ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-14 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7676166
• 关键词: Achievement; Address; Admission activity; Athletic; Award; Back; Biomedical Research; Caring; Dancing; Data; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Educational Curriculum; Employee Strikes; Environment; Face; Family; Fostering; Funding; Future; Goals; Health; Individual; Intervention; Learning; Measures; Mentors; Monitor; Motivation; NCI Scholars Program; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; Nature; Outcome; Participant; Pattern; Performance; Psychology; Publications; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Scientist; Series; Sports; Stereotyping; Students; Testing; Training; Underrepresented Minority; Work; career; cohort; college; combat; comparative; experience; high school; indexing; interest; intervention program; medical schools; outreach; prevent; programs; resilience; skills; statistics; success

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed research tests factors hypothesized to increase the likelihood that an underrepresented minority (URM) college graduate, who is attracted to biomedical PhD training, will "go the distance" and develop an independent research career. The underlying hypotheses emerged from preliminary outcomes data from the Mount Sinai Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP). Specific Aim #1 hypothesis: individual qualities that are crucial to success in a research career are fostered by participation in high school and/or college activities such as orchestra or dance troupe or varsity athletics; our data derive from athletics. In the proposed work a larger "athlete" cohort will be recruited to an expanded PREP. We will track entry data of the athlete and student-at-large PREP cohorts into PhD and MD/PhD programs. For all PREP scholars from each cohort who enter doctoral programs, we will monitor attrition- completion data as well as: (i) a series of performance measures; (ii) retention of a research career as a goal. High performance and continued motivation are expected to correlate with future establishment of an independent research career. We further hypothesize that participation in long-term research projects of an intense, well-mentored nature build similar qualities to athletics whereas multiple, less intense and rigorous experiences do not; relevant data will be collected from all study participants. Specific Aim #2 hypothesis: a major reason for the disappointing numbers of URM students who develop into independent researchers, even after special college programs, is that gaps or impediments remain. If not adequately addressed before PhD training, as done by Mount Sinai PREP, these gaps and impediments preclude the high level of performance in PhD work that supports subsequent pursuit of the path from PhD to an independent research career. Aggregate retention-to-date of PREP scholars in the PhD programs entered is 92% while that of URM cohorts who entered Mount Sinai's PhD program during the same period is 54%. PREP-type interventions will be deployed in our PhD program to assess whether that gap narrows. The research addresses the paucity of URM students who complete biomedical PhD training and go on to establish independent research careers. The studies test hypothesized factors as predictors/builders of successful PhD work and test the adaptability of successful PREP interventions to a doctoral program setting.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的研究测试因素假设的因素增加了代表性不足的少数民族（URM）大学毕业生的可能性，他受到生物医学博士学位培训的吸引，将“走向距离”并发展独立的研究职业。基本的假设来自西奈山后研究教育计划（PREP）的初步结果数据。特定目的＃1假设：参与高中和/或大学活动（例如乐团，舞蹈团或校队田径运动），可以促进对研究职业至关重要的个人素质；我们的数据来自田径运动。在拟议的工作中，将招募更大的“运动员”队列进行扩展的准备。我们将跟踪运动员和一般学生学生的入学数据，以了解博士学位和MD/PHD计划。对于所有进入博士课程的队列中的所有学者，我们将监视损耗完成数据以及：（i）一系列绩效指标； （ii）保留研究职业作为目标。高性能和持续动机有望与未来的独立研究职业建立相关。我们进一步假设，参与强烈，充满良好性质的长期研究项目的参与与田径运动相似，而多种，不太强烈和严格的体验则没有。相关数据将从所有研究参与者那里收集。特定目的2假设：即使在特殊的大学课程之后，越来越多的URM学生都令人失望的URM学生是差距或障碍。如果在Sinai Mount Prep完成的博士学位培训之前，这些差距和障碍在博士学位培训之前还没有充分解决，那么博士学位工作的高表现就可以支持后来从博士学位到独立研究职业的道路。在输入的博士学位课程中，预科课程的总保留至日期为92％，而在同一时期内进入西奈山博士学位计划的URM同伙为54％。准备型干预措施将在我们的博士学位计划中部署，以评估该差距是否缩小。该研究解决了完成生物医学博士培训并继续建立独立研究职业的URM学生的匮乏。研究测试了假设的因素是成功的博士学位工作的预测因素/建筑商，并测试了成功的准备干预措施对博士课程设置的适应性。