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， 在一个国家，老龄化研究仍然缺乏多样性。UAB老龄化研究的目标 通过指导和实践-本科生计划（UAB RAMP-UP）， 通过增加老龄化劳动力的多样性， 代表性不足和农村大学生。UAB RAMP-UP将选择有动力的本科生 学生谁已经完成了他们的大一，并为他们提供组织，学术， 研究技能必须具有竞争力。UAB RAMP-UP的具体目标是：1）培训多样化的干部 通过提供研究教育和实践指导研究， 经验; 2）采用团队指导的方法，为研究生的成功提供结构化的指导 学校和未来的职业生涯包括个人倡导者，作为促进者和冠军， 学术导师，指导他们在老龄化研究的特定领域，和职业教练，匹配 人口统计和背景，帮助他们浏览研究生院和早期职业生涯的过程; 3） 定制职业路线图，提供职业发展机会; 4）适应成功的现场 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）利用组合 面对面的互动（即项目主任，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），以确保受训者获得个人和 作为一个学习者群体，持续关注几年; 6）评估该计划及其 执行，以便改进质量和进行中期纠正。 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，然后是一个虚拟的维护年， 我将完成研究生院的申请，并为研究生的成功做好准备， 虚拟期刊俱乐部检查与衰老相关的文献，UAB RAMP-UP将培训四个队列，共计56人 受训人员，每个人都在两个夏天从事一项现有的与衰老有关的研究， 报告他们开发的研究问题的结果。一个基于UAB的项目总监， 现场机构协调员，将确保受训人员通过培训与该计划保持联系， 指导、虚拟学习和社交媒体平台。UAB有着悠久的历史， 大学本科生的研究生涯。通过与历史上的黑人学院和大学合作， 和亚拉巴马大学，UAB RAMP-UP将受益于合作努力，以暴露学员渴望 致力于减少老龄化人口中的健康不平等，以及参与老龄化的各种导师群体- 相关的研究和扩大职业发展和网络的机会。

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.