Cultivating Health & Aging Researchers by Integrating Science, Medicine & Aging

培养健康

• 批准号: 10618796
• 负责人: DAVID O MELTZER
• 金额: $ 33.69万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10618796
• 关键词: Acceleration; Address; Aging; Attitude; Award; Behavior; Career Choice; Chicago; Clinical; Clinical Research; Clinical Trials; Curriculum Management System; Data; Development; Educational Curriculum; Educational Status; Elderly; Encounter Groups; Ensure; Evaluation; Exposure to; Face; Familiarity; Family member; Funding; Future; Geriatrics; Health; Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice; Healthcare; High School Student; Hospitalization; Impaired cognition; Informed Consent; Knowledge; Measurement; Medical Students; Medicine; Mentors; Mentorship; Methods; Minority Groups; Modeling; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; Older Population; Outcome; Palliative Care; Participant; Patients; Persons; Policy Maker; Population; Population Heterogeneity; Productivity; Publications; Research; Research Personnel; Research Priority; Research Project Grants; Research Training; STEM career; STEM field; Science; Structure; Students; Testing; Time; Training; Training Programs; Underrepresented Minority; Underrepresented Populations; Underrepresented Students; Underserved Population; United States; Universities; Youth; aging population; career; career development; design; didactic education; ethnic diversity; experience; faculty mentor; frailty; functional disability; health care availability; health disparity; high school; human old age (65+); improved; insight; interest; matriculation; patient engagement; programs; racial diversity; recruit; research study; role model; satisfaction; science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine; skills; student participation; success; trend; undergraduate student

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The population of older adults in the United States is the largest and most racially and ethnically diverse the nation has ever known, and these trends are expected to continue or accelerate. To meet the increased healthcare needs of a diverse older adult population, it is important that the healthcare workforce represent the diversity of this population. A diverse healthcare workforce is important to expand healthcare access for underserved populations and to enrich the pool of leaders and policymakers with unique insights into and familiarity with the diverse healthcare needs of our aging population. This is especially true for clinical research, since researchers often rely on personal experience as they formulate and seek to answer research questions. Thus, broader representation of underrepresented minority leaders in the clinical research workforce can help ensure that research priorities appropriately address the needs of older minority groups. Despite the recognized need for a diverse clinical research workforce, students from underrepresented groups face significant barriers to pursuing training in clinical research for older adults. Students from underrepresented groups encounter financial, informational and cultural challenges that limit their interest and participation in medicine overall. Moreover, students from underrepresented groups may be less likely to pursue training in clinical research for older adults if they do not perceive such research as relevant to their lives. The University of Chicago (UC) is a leader in training future clinical researchers from underrepresented backgrounds, with a specific focus on aging through several NIA research training programs designed for students at different training levels. These training programs expose students to formal didactic curricula in aging and clinical research, multi-tiered mentorship teams that conduct clinical research in aging, and realistic career experiences in clinical research and aging. Our NIGMS-funded pipeline program for underrepresented Chicago public high school students has successfully increased the interest and intent in pursuing a career clinical research. Our NIA programs for medical students have successfully improved interest in aging research careers and research productivity of those trainees (i.e., publications and awards). Building on the success of our programs for diverse high school and medical students, we will leverage our experience training learners in aging research to build the Cultivating Health & Aging Researchers by Integrating Science, Medicine & Aging (CHARISMA) program, a structured longitudinal multi-tiered mentored aging-related research training program for undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds. The objectives of CHARISMA are 1) to prepare undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds for medicine, science, engineering, technology and mathematics (MSTEM) careers in aging-related clinical research, and 2) to increase and sustain learner satisfaction, aging-related research knowledge, attitudes toward aging-related clinical research careers, and behaviors associated with pursuing an aging-related research career in an MSTEM field among underrepresented undergraduates.

项目摘要/摘要 在美国，老年人的人口是最大，种族和种族最多的人口 该国已经知道，这些趋势有望继续或加速。满足增加 多样化的老年人的医疗保健需求，重要的是，医疗保健劳动力代表 这个人群的多样性。多样化的医疗保健劳动力对于扩大医疗保健访问很重要 服务不足的人群，并以独特的见解和政策制定者的群体来丰富和 熟悉老龄化人口的多样化医疗保健需求。对于临床尤其如此 研究，由于研究人员在制定并寻求回答研究时经常依靠个人经验 问题。因此，在临床研究中，代表人数不足的少数群体领导者的更广泛代表 劳动力可以帮助确保研究优先级适当地满足少数群体的需求。 尽管认识到需要多样化的临床研究劳动力，但来自人为不足的学生 小组面临着对老年人进行临床研究培训的重大障碍。来自 代表性不足的群体遇到财务，信息和文化挑战，这些挑战限制了他们的兴趣和 总体参与医学。此外，来自代表性不足小组的学生可能不太可能 如果老年人不认为与他们的研究有关 生命。 芝加哥大学（UC）是培训人为不足的未来临床研究人员的领导者 背景，通过旨在 处于不同培训水平的学生。这些培训计划使学生接受了正式的教学课程 衰老和临床研究，多层指导团队，在衰老中进行临床研究和现实 临床研究和衰老方面的职业经验。我们的NIGMS资助的管道计划不足 芝加哥公立高中学生成功地提高了从事职业的兴趣和意图 临床研究。我们针对医学生的NIA计划已成功提高了对衰老研究的兴趣 这些受训者的职业和研究生产力（即出版物和奖项）。 在我们为多元化高中和医学生计划的成功基础上，我们将利用我们的 经验培训老化研究的学习者，以建立培养健康和老龄化研究人员 整合科学，医学与老化（魅力）计划，这是一个结构化的纵向多层 来自代表性不足背景的本科生的指导与衰老相关的研究培训计划。 魅力的目标是1）从代表性不足的背景中准备的本科生 医学，科学，工程，技术和数学（MSTEM）与衰老有关的临床职业 研究，以及2）为了提高和维持学习者满意度，与衰老有关的研究知识，态度 致力于衰老有关的临床研究事业，以及与追求与衰老有关的行为 在人数不足的本科生中，研究职业的研究职业。