Sowing the "CEED"s of a more diverse biomedical workforce: The Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care Research Diversity (CEED) program at the University of Pittsburgh
Sowing the "CEED"s of a more diverse biomedical workforce: The Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care Research Diversity (CEED) program at the University of Pittsburgh
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10.1017/cts.2019.364
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发表时间：
2019-02-01
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2.6
通讯作者：
Kapoor, Wishwa K.
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作者：
Abebe, Kaleab Z.;Morone, Natalia E.;Kapoor, Wishwa K.
目的：生物医学研究人员多样化的必要性是有据可查的。培养初出茅庐的代表性不足的背景（URB）生物医学研究人员的职业生涯的重要性是显而易见的，鉴于国家和地方的URB科学家在生物医学研究的稀缺性。匹兹堡大学临床研究教育研究所（ICRE）的职业教育和增强医疗保健研究多样性（CEED）计划旨在促进职业成功，并帮助密封URB研究人员的“泄漏管道”。在这项研究中，我们的目的是量化CEED的几个关键成果的影响比较CEED学者一组匹配的URB ICRE学员没有参加CEED使用收集的数据超过10年。方法：我们收集了2007年至2017年CEED学者的调查数据，并以1：1的比例使用倾向评分匹配创建了一组未参加CEED的URB学员。Poisson回归被用来比较CEED和非CEED URB学员之间的出版物调整后的出版物的基线数量的比率。结果：CEED有45名毕业生。76%为女性，78%为非白人，33%为西班牙裔/拉丁裔。24 CEED学者匹配非CEED URB学员。与匹配的URB学员相比，CEED毕业生有更多的同行评议出版物（p=0.0261），更有可能成为助理教授（p=0.0145）。结论：支持URB研究人员的计划可以帮助扩大和多样化的生物医学研究队伍。尽管面临人口规模小的挑战，CEED还是取得了成功。
Purpose: The need to diversify the biomedical research workforce is well documented. The importance of fostering the careers of fledgling underrepresented background (URB) biomedical researchers is evident in light of the national and local scarcity of URB scientists in biomedical research. The Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care Research Diversity (CEED) program at the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE) was designed to promote career success and help seal the "leaky pipeline" for URB researchers. In this study, we aimed to quantify CEED's effect on several key outcomes by comparing CEED Scholars to a matched set of URB ICRE trainees not enrolled in CEED using data collected over 10 years. Method: We collected survey data on CEED Scholars from 2007 to 2017 and created a matched set of URB trainees not enrolled in CEED using propensity score matching in a 1:1 ratio. Poisson regression was used to compare the rate of publications between CEED and non-CEED URB trainees after adjusting for baseline number of publications. Results: CEED has 45 graduates. Seventy-six percent are women, 78% are non-White, and 33% are Hispanic/Latino. Twenty-four CEED Scholars were matched to non-CEED URB trainees. Compared to matched URB trainees, CEED graduates had more peer-reviewed publications (p=0.0261) and were more likely to be an assistant professor (p=0.0145). Conclusions: Programs that support URB researchers can help expand and diversify the biomedical research workforce. CEED has been successful despite the challenges of a small demographic pool.