LSAMP BRIDGE TO THE DOCTORATE - ILLINOIS LSAMP BRIDGE TO THE DOCTORATE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO 2013-2015

伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校(UIC)伊利诺伊州路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟(Illinois Louis Stokes Alliance for少数民族Participation Bridge)博士项目的中心目标是增加获得研究生教育的服务不足人口的数量。该计划为博士(BD)学生提供了在最高能力水平上发挥作用的学术和专业社交技能的桥梁。预科、教职员工监督、研究实验室轮换、研究项目和专业互动以及密集的评估方案有助于确保这些学生完成他们的博士或医学/博士学位。完成课程后，BD学生将准备进入该国任何机构的博士后课程或获得更高水平的STEM工作。UIC的伊利诺伊州LSAMP BD项目有四个主要目标：1.从当地和地区的LSAMP联盟中招募至少12名高度积极的学生参加UIC博士项目；2.为即将入学的BD研究员做好准备，以学习和培训博士；3.促进鼓励BD研究员坚持博士学习的活动；实施一系列活动，旨在加强伊利诺伊州LSAMP BD研究员的教育和培训，并帮助他们过渡到博士后奖学金、学院安置或其他需要博士水平STEM教育的职位。少数民族在STEM学科(包括卫生科学)的研究生、博士后研究员和教职员工中所占比例极小。UIC的伊利诺伊州LSAMP BD计划将扩大代表不足的群体的参与，包括妇女、少数族裔和少数族裔。该项目不仅将有助于弥合缺乏在博士水平上发挥创造性作用的代表性不足的个人所造成的差距，还将鼓励其他由于缺乏合格的榜样而一直保持沉默的人尝试研究生工作。

The central goal of the Illinois Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Bridge to the Doctorate Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is to increase the number of underserved populations who attain access to graduate education. The program provides Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) students with the academic and professional social skills to function at the highest levels of competency. Pre-matriculation, staff and faculty monitoring, research lab rotations, research projects and professional interactions along with intensive evaluation protocol helps to ensure that these students complete their PhD or MD/PhD. Upon completion of the program, the BD students will be ready to go into a postdoctoral program at any institution in the country or to obtain upper level STEM employment. One of the creative aspects of these activities is the inclusion of MD/PhDs among the cadre of PhD students that are being produced.The Illinois LSAMP BD Program at UIC has four primary objectives:1. To recruit a minimum of twelve highly motivated students from local and regional LSAMP alliances to UIC PhD programs;2. To prepare matriculating BD Fellows to study and train towards the PhD;3. To facilitate activities that will encourage BD Fellows to persist in PhD studies; and 4. To implement a series of activities designed to enhance the education and training of Illinois LSAMP BD Fellows and help them transition to postdoctoral fellowships, placement in the academy, or other positions requiring doctoral level STEM education.Ethnic minorities comprise a disproportionately small fraction of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty in the STEM disciplines, including health sciences. The Illinois LSAMP BD Program at UIC will broaden the participation of underrepresented groups including women, ethnic and racial minorities. The program will not only help to close the gap created by the paucity of underrepresented individuals who are functioning creatively at the PhD level, it will also encourage others who have been reticent to attempt graduate work because of the lack of qualified role models.