UAB Research in Aging through Mentorship and Practice - Undergraduate Program (UAB RAMP-UP)

尽管努力增加大学中代表性不足的研究人员的数量 尽管如此，老龄化研究仍然缺乏多样性。UAB在老龄化研究中的目标 通过指导和实践-本科生计划(UAB Ramp-up)旨在减少健康方面的差距 老年人的状况和健康结果，通过增加老龄化劳动力的多样性，重点是 代表不足和农村本科生。UAB提升将选择积极进取的本科生 完成大一学业的学生，并为他们提供组织、学术和 研究技能需要具有竞争力。UAB的具体目标是：1)培养多样化的干部队伍 通过提供研究性教育和实践指导研究来培养有前途的本科生 经验；2)采用团队指导的方法，为毕业生的成功提供结构化的指导 学校和未来的职业生涯由个人倡导者、推动者和冠军组成， 学术导师，在老龄化研究的特定领域指导他们，以及职业教练，匹配 人口统计和背景，帮助他们顺利完成研究生学业和早期职业生涯；3) 定制职业路线图，提供职业发展机会；4)现场适应成功 将培训计划转化为针对老化内容领域的现场/虚拟学习活动；5)结合使用 面对面互动(即计划总监、机构协调员、职业支持团队)和虚拟 工具(例如，基于网络的教学、视频会议、社交媒体)，以确保学员获得个人和 作为一组学习者，连续关注几年；以及6)评估该计划及其 实施，以实现质量改进和中期纠正。 将面对面和虚拟教学培训与密集的指导研究相结合 在两个夏天各体验八周，然后是虚拟维护年，参与者 将完成研究生院的申请，并为成为研究生做好准备，通过 虚拟杂志俱乐部审视老龄化相关文献，UAB提升将培训四个队列共56人 受训者，每个人在两个夏天都从事与衰老有关的现有研究，并制作 报告他们开发的研究问题的结果。以UAB为基础的计划总监和 现场机构协调员，将确保受训人员通过培训保持与项目的联系， 辅导、虚拟学习和社交媒体平台。UAB在准备任职人数不足方面有很长的历史 为从事研究工作的本科生。通过与历史上的黑人学院和大学合作 阿拉巴马大学UAB分校将从一项合作努力中受益，该努力旨在揭露渴望 致力于减少老龄化人口中的健康不平等，向参与老龄化的不同导师群体- 开展相关研究，拓展职业发展和网络机会。

Despite efforts to increase the number of underrepresented researchers in universities across the country, there is a continued lack of diversity in Aging Research. The goal of the UAB Research in Aging through Mentorship and Practice – Undergraduate Program (UAB RAMP-UP) is to reduce disparities in health status and health outcomes in older adults by increasing the diversity in the aging workforce with a focus on underrepresented and rural undergraduate students. UAB RAMP-UP will select motivated undergraduate students who have completed their freshman year and provide them with the organizational, academic, and research skills needed to be competitive. The specific aims of UAB RAMP-UP are: 1) training a diverse cadre of promising undergraduate students by providing research education and hands-on mentored research experiences; 2) employing a team-mentoring approach to provide structured guidance for success in graduate school and future careers consisting of Personal Advocates, serving as promoters and champions, Academic Mentors, guiding them in a specific area of aging research, and Career Coaches, matched for demographics and background, helping them navigate the graduate school and early career processes; 3) customizing career roadmaps and providing career development opportunities; 4) adapting successful on-site training programs into on-site/virtual learning activities targeting aging content areas; 5) utilizing a combination of in-person interaction (i.e. Program Director, Institutional Coordinators, Career Support Teams) and virtual tools (e.g. web-based instruction, videoconferencing, social media) to ensure Trainees receive individual and continuous attention for several years as a cohort of learners; and 6) evaluating the program and its implementation to allow for quality improvement and mid-course corrections. Incorporating in-person and virtual didactic training combined with an intensive mentored research experience for eight weeks each in two summers, followed by a virtual maintenance year where participants will complete graduate school applications and prepare for success as graduate students, accentuated by a Virtual Journal Club examining aging-related literature, UAB RAMP-UP will train four cohorts totaling 56 Trainees, each working on an existing, aging-related research study during both summers and producing a presentation reporting findings from a research question they developed. A UAB-based Program Director and on-site Institutional Coordinators, will ensure that trainees remain connected to the program through training, mentoring, virtual learning, and social media platforms. UAB has a long history of preparing underrepresented undergraduate students for careers in research. By partnering with Historically Black Colleges and Universities and the University of Alabama, UAB RAMP-UP will benefit from a collaborative effort to expose Trainees eager to work on reducing health inequities in aging populations, to a diverse group of mentors participating in aging- related research and expanding opportunities for career development and networking.