University of Maryland Aging Diversity and Professional Training (UM ADAPT II)

马里兰大学老龄化多样性和专业培训（UM ADAPT II）

• 批准号: 9790389
• 负责人: JAMES M HAGBERG
• 金额: $ 27.51万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-15 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9790389
• 关键词: Address; Admission activity; African American; Age; Aging; Alzheimer' s Disease; American; American Indians; Area; Asian Americans; Asians; Awareness; Bachelor' s Degree; Behavioral Research; Behavioral Sciences; Benchmarking; Biomedical Research; Cardiovascular Diseases; Caucasians; Communities; Data; Dimensions; Disadvantaged; Discipline; Education; Education Projects; Enrollment; Environment; Ethics; Ethnic Origin; Ethnic group; Faculty; Funding; Future; Gender; Goals; Graduate Degree; Graduation Rates; Health; Health Policy; Health Services Administration; Healthcare; Healthy People 2020; Hearing; Hispanics; Housing; Individual; Knowledge; Laboratories; Latino; Life Experience; Malignant Neoplasms; Maryland; Medical; Medicine; Mentors; Minority; Minority Graduate Student; Minority Groups; Mission; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Oral; Outcome; Population; Positioning Attribute; Process; Production; Program Development; Program Evaluation; Public Health Schools; Race; Recommendation; Research; Research Ethics; Research Personnel; Research Training; Scholarship; Schools; Science; Strategic Planning; Structure; Students; Time; Training; Training Programs; Trust; Underrepresented Groups; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Washington; Woman; base; career; career development; caucasian American; ethnic diversity; experience; health disparity; improved; insight; men; peer coaching; posters; pre-doctoral; programs; racial minority; recruit; research and development; research study; skills; social; success; summer program; synergism; undergraduate student

We propose to continue our University of Maryland Aging Diversity And Professional Training (UM ADAPT) Program for years 06–10 to provide under-represented/disadvantaged undergraduates with 2 yrs of research, ethics, and career development training. Our long-term goal is to increase diversity in individuals who choose careers in aging-related biomedical/behavioral research. Our specific aims are to: provide quality mentoring, increase knowledge of landmark aging research, enhance research skills and experience necessary to be competitive graduate school applicants, enhance awareness of the process, practice, and ethics of scientific research, and prepare Trainees for graduate school and a research career. The program includes 2 yrs of an academic yr and a concentrated summer experience, with distinct activities each yr. Applicants are recruited across the UM campus via numerous avenues. An Admissions Committee selects Trainees and matches them with Mentors. Trainees are provided with housing and remunerated during the Summer Concentrated Research Experience. Trainees primarily focus on research closely integrated with that of their Mentor, who is selected from 32 School of Public Health faculty with research in disciplines highly relevant to aging. The mix of Mentor expertise ranges from laboratory-based bench research to applied community-based and community participatory research to health policy. In addition to research experience, Trainees and the Director meet regularly to discuss research-related issues, set research goals, interact with various professionals for exchanges about graduate school issues, and discuss classic research articles relevant to aging. During the summers, weekly sessions on either Ethics- (1st Yr Trainees) or Research-Related (2nd Yr Trainees) Training are included. A 2nd Yr/1st Yr Peer Mentoring Program is also utilized. Trainees present their research orally and as posters at the end of each academic year and the end of the summer session. Scientific, social, and cultural activities in the Washington, DC area are included. Extensive program evaluation assesses how well the program achieves pre-determined Benchmarks. Internal and External Advisory Boards meet to review outcome data and make recommendations to improve and maintain program quality. In our first 4 yrs our Trainees have been highly diverse: of the 34 UM ADAPT Trainees, 20 have been women and 14 men, 20 have been African Americans, 1 Hispanic/Latino, 5 Caucasians, and 8 Asians, with all of the Caucasian and Asian Americans being disadvantaged individuals. Furthermore, they have come from a wide range of science-based majors. Half of Trainees who have graduated are currently enrolled in graduate school, with all of them enrolled in aging-related programs; those not yet in graduate school plan to submit their applications in the near future. Thus, we have been successful in achieving or exceeding the majority of our Benchmarks and Objectives for this program. Therefore, we strongly believe we will be able to continue to offer a unique and very beneficial 2 yr-long research training and career development program to another 5 yrs of UM ADAPT Trainees.

我们建议继续我们的马里兰州大学老化的多样性和专业培训（UM适应） 计划为06 - 10年的计划提供2年的研究，以提供代表性不足/不利的本科生 道德和职业发展培训。我们的长期目标是增加选择个人的多样性 与衰老有关的生物医学/行为研究的职业。我们的具体目的是：提供高质量的心理， 提高具有里程碑意义的老化研究的知识，提高研究技能和经验 竞争激烈的研究生院申请人，提高对科学的过程，实践和道德的认识 研究，并为学员准备研究生院和研究职业。该程序包括2年 学术年和集中的夏季经验，每年都有不同的活动。申请申请人 在整个UM校园中，通过许多途径。招生委员会选择受训者并与他们匹配 与导师。为学员提供住房，并在夏季集中期间获得报酬 研究经验。学员主要专注于与他们的导师密切集成的研究 从32个公共卫生学院中选出，研究学科的研究与衰老高度相关。混合物 导师专业知识的范围从基于实验室的基础研究到应用社区和社区 卫生政策的参与研究。除了研究经验，学员和导演会议 通常要讨论与研究有关的问题，设定研究目标，与各种专业人员互动 有关研究生院问题的交流和讨论与衰老有关的经典研究文章。在 夏天，关于道德的每周会议 - （第一年学员）或与研究相关的（第二年）培训 包括。还使用了第二年/第一年的同伴指导计划。学员口头介绍他们的研究， 作为每个学年结束时的海报和夏季会议结束。科学，社会和文化 包括华盛顿特区地区的活动。广泛的计划评估评估如何 计划实现预定的基准。内部和外部咨询委员会开会以审查结果 数据并提出建议以改善和维护计划质量。在我们的前4年中，我们的学员有 我们是高度潜水员：在34名适应学员中，有20名是女性和14名男性，20岁是非洲人 美国人，1个西班牙裔/拉丁裔，5名高加索人和8个亚洲人，所有高加索人和亚裔美国人 处于弱势个人。此外，它们来自众多以科学为基础的专业。 目前有一半已经毕业的学员入学，所有学员都参加了 与衰老有关的程序；那些尚未在研究生院计划的人计划在不久的将来提交申请。 这是我们成功实现或超过大多数基准和目标的成功 这个程序。因此，我们坚信我们将能够继续提供独特且非常有益的2 年长的研究培训和职业发展计划，向另外5年的UM适应学员。