A Program to Promote Diversity within the American Society of Andrology

促进美国男科学会多样性的计划

• 批准号: 8726388
• 负责人: George L. Gerton
• 金额: $ 10.27万
• 依托单位: AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANDROLOGY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-01 至 2017-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8726388
• 关键词: AIDS/HIV problem; Address; Adult; Advisory Committees; Affect; American; American Indian and Alaska Native; Andrology; Applications Grants; Area; Asians; Basic Science; Cellular biology; Clinical; Clinical Research; Cryptorchidism; Development; Developmental Biology; Diabetes Mellitus; Diet; Digestive System Disorders; Disabled Persons; Discipline; Disease; Employment; Endocrine System Diseases; Endocrinology; Energy Metabolism; Epididymitis; Erectile dysfunction; Evaluation; Faculty; Fertility; Funding; Goals; Hispanics; Incidence; Individual; Institutes; Kidney; Laboratories; Leadership; Learning; Left; Malignant neoplasm of prostate; Manuscripts; Mentors; Metabolic Diseases; Mission; Molecular; Orgasm; Pacific Island Americans; Postdoctoral Fellow; Preparation; Production; Prostatic Diseases; Qualifying; Recruitment Activity; Reproduction; Reproductive Health; Reproductive Physiology; Research; Science; Scientific Societies; Scientist; Services; Societies; Spinal cord injury; Staging; Students; Supervision; Surveys; System; Training; Translational Research; Underrepresented Minority; Urologic Diseases; Urologist; Urology; base; career; design; diabetic; erection; graduate student; improved; interest; male; man; meetings; member; men; novel diagnostics; nutrition; prevent; programs; public health relevance; reproductive; reproductive function; sperm cell; steroid hormone; tool; undergraduate student; urologic; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The American Society of Andrology (ASA) seeks to improve the recruitment and retention of diverse individuals within scientific fields germane to the urologic systems of males. Towards this goal, the ASA has developed educational and mentoring programs aimed at recruiting and retaining talented, well-qualified students, fellows, and junior faculty from groups underrepresented in the biomedical fields of NIDDK mission areas of diabetes, endocrine and metabolic diseases, and urologic diseases (including urology basic cell biology, male reproductive health, diabetic effects on male reproduction, erectile dysfunction, urology molecular endocrinology, and urology HIV/AIDS). The ASA Diversity Initiative has three goals and tracks. Specific Aim 1 is to provide career guidance and mentoring in the field of andrology to graduate students, postdoctoral scientists, and early-stage professionals from underrepresented groups. Track 1 will pair a Trainee Member or early-stage Active Member with a senior Active Member for career guidance. The Active Member will advise their mentee concerning employment searches, grant applications, manuscript preparation, laboratory management, scientific society service, etc. Specific Aim 2 is to identify undergraduate students from underrepresented groups who have strong interests in science and provide them the opportunity to do summer research in an andrology laboratory. These Track 2 students will be under the direct supervision of a Trainee Mentor (senior graduate student or postdoctoral fellow who is advised by a faculty mentor). This cascading mentoring paradigm trains both the undergraduate and the Trainee Mentor in laboratory experimentation and research mentoring, respectively. Specific Aim 3 is to introduce freshman and sophomore undergraduate students from underrepresented groups to the excitement of science through attendance at the annual meeting of the American Society of Andrology (ASA). The goal of Track 3 is to expose the students to the value of male reproductive health research and to give them an opportunity to personally meet and interact with professional andrologists. A secondary goal of this program is to identify potential candidates for Track 2 (Specific Aim 2). If funded, progress toward attaining the project goals will be annually assessed by surveys of mentees and mentors as well as an in- depth evaluation by an internal advisory committee composed of senior leadership of the ASA. Lessons learned from ASA Diversity Initiative will be publicly shared through the society website.

描述（由申请人提供）：美国雄科学学会（ASA）旨在改善科学领域内部在Germane中向男性泌尿外科体系的招聘和保留。 Towards this goal, the ASA has developed educational and mentoring programs aimed at recruiting and retaining talented, well-qualified students, fellows, and junior faculty from groups underrepresented in the biomedical fields of NIDDK mission areas of diabetes, endocrine and metabolic diseases, and urologic diseases (including urology basic cell biology, male reproductive health, diabetic effects on male reproduction, erectile功能障碍，泌尿外科分子内分泌学和泌尿科艾滋病毒/艾滋病）。 ASA多样性计划有三个目标和轨道。具体目标1是向研究生，博士后科学家以及来自代表性不足的团体的早期专业人士提供职业指导和指导。 Track 1将将实习生或早期活跃成员与职业指导的高级活跃成员配对。活跃的成员将为他们的训练者提供有关就业搜索，赠款申请，手稿准备，实验室管理，科学社会服务等的建议。具体目标2是确定来自代表性不足的群体的本科生，他们对科学有浓厚的兴趣，并为他们提供了在雄激素实验室中进行夏季研究的机会。这些曲目2的学生将在学员导师的直接监督下（高级研究生或博士后研究员，由教师导师建议）。这种级联的指导范式分别训练本科生和实验室实验和研究指导的学员指导者。特定目标3是通过参加美国雄科学学会年会（ASA）年度会议来介绍来自代表性不足的群体的新生和大二本科生。曲目3的目标是使学生接触男性生殖健康研究的价值，并为他们提供与专业雄激素医生亲自见面和互动的机会。该计划的次要目标是确定轨道2的潜在候选者（特定目标2）。如果资助，实现项目目标的进展将每年通过受训者和导师的调查以及由ASA高级领导组成的内部咨询委员会进行深入评估。从ASA多样性计划中汲取的经验教训将通过社会网站公开分享。