Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program at UC Davis

加州大学戴维斯分校学士后研究教育项目

基本信息

批准号：
10559688
负责人：
JOANNA Chungyen CHIU
金额：
$ 43.2万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-01-01 至 2027-02-28
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10559688
关键词：
Area Award Benchmarking Biomedical Research Biotechnology California Color Communication Communities Country Coupled Critical Thinking Development Development Plans Doctor of Philosophy Doctor&apos s Degree Educational workshop Engineering Enrollment Environment Ethics Exercise Exposure to Faculty Fellowship First Generation College Students Fostering Funding Future Generations Goals Grant Individual Institution Interview Journals Knowledge Laboratories Laboratory Research Latinx Learning Life Literature Medicine Mentors Mentorship Outcome Positioning Attribute Postbaccalaureate Postdoctoral Fellow Problem Solving Public Health Publications Qualifying Readiness Recommendation Reproducibility Research Research Ethics Research Personnel Research Proposals Science Scientist Self Assessment Self Perception Social skills development Students Technical Expertise Testing Time Training Transcript Underrepresented Populations Underrepresented Students United States National Academy of Sciences United States National Institutes of Health Universities Writing academic preparation base career career development design disadvantaged background doctoral student education research empowerment equity, diversity, and inclusion experience graduate school graduate student innovation laboratory experiment marginalized population member men oral communication programs role model skills student retention success supportive environment symposium undergraduate student

项目摘要

SUMMARY Students from under-represented populations and/or disadvantaged backgrounds disproportionately fail to enter biomedical research at a PhD level, potentially because they lack research experience or self-identity as scientists. The long-term goal of PREP at UC Davis (PREP@UCD) is to prepare young scholars from these groups to succeed as academics and leaders in research. Specifically, we aim to provide PREP scholars with the research, communication, analytical, and life skills required to excel in doctoral programs in the biomedical sciences. We have reached our benchmark; 12 of 14 PREP@UCD alumni have been accepted to top biomedical PhD programs, with four alumni awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships to fund PhD study. Thus, PREP@UCD is significant because we successfully foster an inclusive scientific training culture that has led to retaining students from historically marginalized groups in biomedical science at the bachelors-to- graduate school interface and in PhD programs. The University of California, Davis, is an innovative setting for a PREP program because it combines high research funding from the NIH (over $250 million last year), high academic ranking (11th best public university in the country), and commitment to serving underrepresented (27% of undergraduates and 20% of biomedical PhD students) and first-generation students (42%). Six PREP scholars annually will participate in research (75%) and career development activities (25%) under the close guidance of a mentorship team consisting of research supervisors, a faculty advisor, the PI, and the program coordinator. Three specific aims are proposed to prepare PREP@UCD scholars for biomedical graduate programs. First, PREP will provide a mentored research environment where scholars can gain experience in performing individual, hypothesis-driven research. This will help to develop their self-images as scientists and thus foster success in graduate school. Second, PREP@UCD scholars will be trained in experimental skills to prepare them for graduate school and a career in biomedical research. Laboratory activities will develop skills in gathering scientific information, formulating and testing hypotheses, working in a team, solving problems critically, assessing research ethics and values, and learning technical skills. Third, PREP@UCD scholars will be empowered with strong professional skills. Each scholar will spend 25% of their effort in career development through communication exercises, grant writing, journal clubs, participation in research conferences, and workshops in professional skills, careers in biomedical science, ethics, rigor, and reproducibility. The skills and scientific self-identity fostered during PREP@UCD will provide the scholars with a better chance of excelling in biomedical PhD programs. The combination of the research expertise and mentoring experience of the trainers, and a focus on self-identity as a scientist in the laboratory, coupled with broad professional development activities in a supportive environment, makes the overall approach of PREP@UCD significant and innovative.

概括来自代表性不足的人群和/或弱势背景的学生不成比例地未能在博士学位阶段进入生物医学研究，可能是因为他们缺乏研究经验或自我认同科学家。加州大学戴维斯分校 PREP (PREP@UCD) 的长期目标是培养年轻学者团体作为学者和研究领导者取得成功。具体来说，我们的目标是为 PREP 学者提供在生物医学博士课程中取得优异成绩所需的研究、沟通、分析和生活技能科学。我们已经达到了我们的基准； 14 名 PREP@UCD 校友中的 12 名已被录取为顶级成员生物医学博士项目，四名校友获得美国国家科学基金会研究生研究奖学金以资助博士研究。因此，PREP@UCD 意义重大，因为我们成功培育了一种包容性的科学培训文化，导致了从学士到生物医学科学领域历史上被边缘化群体的学生的保留研究生院接口和博士课程。加州大学戴维斯分校是一个创新的环境 PREP 计划，因为它结合了 NIH 的高额研究经费（去年超过 2.5 亿美元），高学术排名（全国最佳公立大学第 11 名），并致力于服务代表性不足（27% 的本科生和 20% 的生物医学博士生）和第一代学生（42%）。每年六名 PREP 学者将参与研究（75%）和职业发展活动（25％）在导师团队的密切指导下进行，该团队由研究主管、教员组成顾问、PI 和项目协调员。提出了准备 PREP@UCD 的三个具体目标生物医学研究生课程的学者。首先，PREP 将提供一个受指导的研究环境，其中学者可以通过进行个人的、假设驱动的研究来获得经验。这将有助于发展他们作为科学家的自我形象，从而促进在研究生院的成功。其次，PREP@UCD 学者将接受实验技能培训，为进入研究生院和生物医学研究职业做好准备。实验室活动将培养收集科学信息、制定和检验假设的技能，团队合作，批判性地解决问题，评估研究道德和价值观，学习技术技能。第三，PREP@UCD学者将拥有强大的专业技能。每个学者都会花费他们 25% 的努力通过沟通练习、资助写作、期刊俱乐部、参加有关专业技能、生物医学科学职业的研究会议和研讨会，道德、严谨性和可重复性。 PREP@UCD 期间培养的技能和科学自我认同将提供更有机会在生物医学博士课程中取得优异成绩的学者。研究的结合培训师的专业知识和指导经验，以及对作为科学家的自我认同的关注实验室，加上支持性环境中广泛的专业发展活动，使 PREP@UCD 的总体方法具有重要意义和创新性。