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）：拟议的研究测试了假设的因素，以增加被生物医学博士培训所吸引的代表性不足的少数族裔（URM）大学毕业生“坚持到底”并发展独立研究职业的可能性。基本假设来自西奈山学士后研究教育计划 (PREP) 的初步结果数据。具体目标#1假设：对研究生涯成功至关重要的个人品质是通过参加高中和/或大学活动（如管弦乐队、舞蹈团或校队运动）来培养的；我们的数据来自田径运动。在拟议的工作中，将招募更多的“运动员”群体来扩大 PREP。我们将跟踪运动员和普通学生 PREP 群体进入博士和医学博士/博士项目的入学数据。对于每个队列中进入博士课程的所有 PREP 学者，我们将监控自然减员完成数据以及： (i) 一系列绩效衡量指标； (ii) 保留研究生涯作为目标。高绩效和持续的动力预计将与未来独立研究职业的建立相关。我们进一步假设，参与激烈、良好指导的长期研究项目可以培养与体育运动类似的品质，而多次、不那么激烈和严格的经历却不会；将从所有研究参与者收集相关数据。具体目标#2 假设：即使在特殊的大学课程之后，URM 学生发展成为独立研究人员的数量仍令人失望，一个主要原因是差距或障碍仍然存在。如果没有像西奈山 PREP 那样在博士培训之前得到充分解决，这些差距和障碍就会阻碍博士工作的高水平表现，从而支持随后从博士到独立研究职业的道路。迄今为止，进入博士项目的 PREP 学者的总保留率为 92%，而同期进入西奈山博士项目的 URM 学者的保留率为 54%。我们的博士项目将部署 PREP 型干预措施，以评估这一差距是否缩小。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 学生的稀缺问题。这些研究测试了作为成功博士工作的预测因素/建设者的假设因素，并测试了成功的 PREP 干预措施对博士项目环境的适应性。