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: 10472735
• 负责人: Jodi A. Flaws
• 金额: $ 24.88万
• 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/10472735
• 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; Diverse Workforce; Educational Activities; 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; Reproducibility; Research; Research Personnel; Role; STEM student; Schools; 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; 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.

项目概要 NIMG R25 IPERT 计划的目标是支持补充和/或增强的教育活动 培训劳动力以满足国家生物医学、行为和临床研究的需求。 资助机会鼓励主要关注技能课程的活动和外展计划 发展、结构化指导活动和外展计划，以创建高技能和多元化的人才 毒理学专业面临的一个主要挑战是缺乏多元化的劳动力。 国家环境健康科学研究所 (NIEHS) 多年来已经认识到这个问题，并且 事实上，已尝试通过不同的供资机制来解决这一问题，但代表性不足的人数 毒理学专业人士的数量仍然低得令人失望，因此需要一种新的方法来解决这一问题。 缩小这一差距是招收本科生进入毒理学研究生研究的缺点之一。 课程是国内缺乏本科毒理学培训课程的毒理学教学的起步点。 由于缺乏对毒理学及其在毒理学中的作用的认识和知识。 保护人类、动物和环境健康，有兴趣攻读研究生的本科生 加州大学戴维斯分校与社会协会合作，自然不会将其视为一种选择。 毒理学 (SOT) 与位于爱荷华州艾姆斯的爱荷华州立大学 (ISU)、塔斯基吉大学 (TU) 合作， 阿拉巴马州塔斯基吉市和俄亥俄州哥伦布市俄亥俄州立大学 (OSU) 将提供为期一年的本科课程 毒理学指导和技能发展培训 (ToxMSDT) 计划有两个具体目标。 具体目标#1：为就读于该校的代表性不足的本科生提供指导计划 科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 具体目标 2：提供在线培训计划。 这个创新灵活的在线课程包括案例研究和简短的技能发展电子模块。 可以通过移动设备以及连接到互联网的计算机进行访问，并向公众开放 就这一点而言，这是一个独特的毒理学推广计划，我们建议将注册人数增加到 20 人。 每年招收本科生，并扩大全国招生范围，包括所有代表性不足的学生 这一独特培训计划的预期成果包括： a) 至少 65% 参与后续研究项目、实习或其他相关活动的项目校友 b) 至少 50% 的项目校友申请毒理学或生物医学科学专业的相关领域； 进入毒理学或相关生物医学研究生课程或加入毒理学队伍； 毒理学学生、研究人员和专业人士致力于扩大毒理学的持续网络 为美国人口中代表性不足的群体提供指导和职业机会。