High School Program in Biomedical and Health Sciences

生物医学和健康科学高中课程

• 批准号: 7846009
• 负责人: Bonnie L Halpern-Felsher
• 金额: $ 12.12万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7846009
• 关键词: Admission activity; Behavioral; Biological; Caring; Clinical Sciences; Color; Commit; Communities; Disadvantaged; Discipline; Disease; Educational Status; Environment; Exposure to; Faculty; Family; Goals; Hand; Health; Health Personnel; Health Sciences; Healthcare; Internships; Knowledge; Laboratories; Leadership; Learning; Life; Low income; Medical Students; Medicine; Mentors; Mentorship; Minority; Motivation; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Prevention; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Scholarship; Schools; Science; Self Management; Social Sciences; Students; Testing; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; Weight Gain; Woman; Work; Youth; base; career; college; experience; health disparity; high school; improved; interest; laboratory facility; member; minority health; pediatric department; programs; science education; socioeconomics; twelfth grade

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As the number of minorities in the population continues to increase, the health disparities and health care needs for these groups will likely continue and intensify. Underrepresented minority health care providers should reflect the percentages of those groups in the U.S. population because they are more likely to work in underserved and minority communities, thus highlighting the urgency to recruit and retain a diverse health-care workforce. Programs are needed at multiple levels of the educational pipeline to engage youth in pursuing science and health-related professions. The ultimate goal of this program is to increase the number of underrepresented, minority and disadvantaged youth committed to a career in the biomedical, behavioral, or clinical science. The immediate goal is to promote and nurture interest in education, science, medicine and health among young people from diverse communities in an exciting, committed, supportive environment through mentorship and scholarly pursuit. In order to provide such key mentoring and educational opportunities for youth interested in science and increase the number of youth entered in the pipeline, we began the UCSF Department of Pediatrics High School Student Summer Internship Program in Biomedical and Health Sciences. We now propose to continue and expand this summer internship program for entering junior and senior high school students. Priority is given to recruiting and accepting talented students from populations less represented in the biomedical and health sciences, including women, students of color, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Specific aims of the program are to: 1) Provide students with interest in science the opportunity for hands-on exposure to scientific research, and to connect students with mentors who will assist them in their pursuit of scientific scholarship. In so doing, we are specifically targeting academically motivated and talented youth from minority and low-income families. Interns will be exposed to various scientific disciplines ranging from physical, life, biological, and social sciences. 2) Help improve applications for successful college admission among youth who might otherwise have more limited educational choices. College admission committees are not only reviewing and selecting applicants based on their grades and test scores, increasing weight is now put on the high school student's entire profile, including motivation, real-world experience, community involvement, and leadership promise. 3) Increase students' knowledge of health and health-related professions, including prevention, treatment, and self-management of disease. During the ten-week program, students will be placed with a research group or laboratory, where they will have the opportunity to interact with and be mentored by various researchers including graduate and medical students, post-doctoral fellows, and/or faculty members, and will be assigned a designated research project to work on. Students will attend seminars on various topics related to professions in science and will also tour different laboratories and facilities at UCSF and other universities to gain additional exposure to science learning and educational environments. At the end of the summer, students will present their research during an evening reception.

描述（由申请人提供）： 随着人口中少数民族的数量继续增加，这些群体的健康差异和医疗保健需求可能会继续并加剧。代表性不足的少数族裔医疗保健提供者应反映美国人口这些群体的百分比，因为它们更有可能在服务不足和少数民族社区工作，从而强调了招募和保留多样化的医疗保健员工的紧迫性。需要在多个级别的教育管道上进行计划，以吸引青年参与科学和健康相关的职业。该计划的最终目的是增加致力于生物医学，行为或临床科学职业的代表性不足，少数群体和处境不利的年轻人的数量。直接的目标是通过指导和学术追求在一个令人兴奋的，致力于的，支持的环境中促进和培养来自不同社区的年轻人对教育，科学，医学和健康的兴趣。为了为对科学感兴趣的年轻人提供关键的指导和教育机会，并增加了在管道中的青年人数，我们开始了UCSF儿科高中学生暑期学生暑期实习计划的生物医学和健康科学课程。现在，我们建议继续并扩大本夏季实习计划，以进入初中和高中生。优先考虑从生物医学和健康科学（包括女性，有色学生）以及来自低社会经济背景的学生在内的人群中招募和接受才华横溢的学生。该计划的具体目标是：1）为学生提供对科学的兴趣，这是动手接触科学研究的机会，并将学生与将协助他们追求科学奖学金的导师联系起来。这样一来，我们专门针对来自少数族裔和低收入家庭的学术动机和才华横溢的青年。实习生将接触到从身体，生活，生物学和社会科学的各种科学学科。 2）帮助改善在青年中成功入学的应用程序，否则他们可能会有更多有限的教育选择。大学录取委员会不仅根据其成绩和考试成绩审查和选择申请人，而且现在的体重不断增加，现在将增加了高中生的整个知名度，包括动机，现实世界经验，社区参与和领导诺言。 3）增加学生对健康和健康相关职业的了解，包括预防，治疗和疾病自我管理。在为期十周的课程中，学生将与研究小组或实验室一起安置，在那里他们将有机会与包括研究生和医学生，博士后研究员和/或教职员工在内的各种研究人员进行互动和指导，并将分配一个指定的研究项目。学生将参加与科学专业有关的各种主题的研讨会，并将在UCSF和其他大学参观不同的实验室和设施，以获得有关科学学习和教育环境的额外接触。夏季结束时，学生将在晚上的招待会上介绍他们的研究。