Increasing Diversity in Experiential Research Education at Michigan State University

密歇根州立大学体验式研究教育的多样性

• 批准号: 10323688
• 负责人: Susan L Ewart
• 金额: $ 9.39万
• 依托单位: MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-06-01 至 2026-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10323688
• 关键词: Active Learning; Advisory Committees; Airway Disease; Animal Model; Area; Biomedical Research; Blood Cells; Books; Career Choice; Cellular Structures; Clinical Research; Committee Members; Communities; Comparative Study; Data; Development; Disabled Persons; Disadvantaged; Disease; Education; Educational workshop; Ensure; Environment; Evaluation; Exposure to; Faculty; Feedback; Fostering; Foundations; Goals; Health; Health Sciences; Healthcare; Heart Diseases; Hematological Disease; Human; Hypertension; Immersion; Individual; Instruction; Investigation; Knowledge; Lung diseases; Medical; Medical Students; Mentors; Mentorship; Michigan; Minority; Mission; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Outcome; Participant; Pathology; Population; Reading; Reduce health disparities; Research; Research Personnel; Science; Scientist; Social Sciences; Societies; Students; Study models; Tissues; Training; Underrepresented Populations; Underrepresented Students; Underserved Population; Universities; Veterinarians; Work; career; college; community building; demographics; design; education planning; education research; effectiveness evaluation; ethnic diversity; experience; health care availability; health disparity; innovation; interest; next generation; online resource; peer networks; programs; racial diversity; recruit; research study; response; responsible research conduct; success; summer research; undergraduate student; university student

Project Summary/Abstract Population-specific differences in the presence of disease, health outcomes, or access to healthcare are termed “health disparities” and they are a significant concern in our society. Lack of representation of the underserved groups—which includes minorities, financially disadvantaged, and disabled individuals—in the biomedical research and healthcare workforce has been identified as a critical factor underlying health disparities. Indeed, disparities in the demographics of individuals entering careers in biomedical research are well documented. Biomedical knowledge and healthcare will benefit from broader inclusion of underrepresented individuals engaged in biomedical research as inclusive research teams have broader perspectives in setting research agendas, can more effectively recruit diverse subjects into clinical research studies, and work more effectively to deliver healthcare and reduce health disparities. Experiential learning by active engagement in research is an effective way to nurture the next generation of scientists and health care researchers. Veterinarians conduct research important to human health through comparative studies and animal models; unfortunately the racial and ethnic diversity in the veterinary profession is no better than that of the biomedical research workforce in general. Thus, this proposal is designed to recruit and comprehensively immerse both undergraduate and veterinary medical students from underrepresented groups in summer research experiences on the campus of Michigan State University. These research experiences will be focused on three major areas: hypertension, airway disease and blood cells and components in tissue pathology. The objective of our education research program is to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups who pursue biomedical research-related educational goals and career paths relevant to the mission areas of the NHLBI. The strategy to meet this objective involves 1) providing student participants an immersive research experience that exposes them to the various aspects of a research career, 2) cultivating participants' science identity by facilitating the development of mentor and peer networks, and creating a community that supports the participants' research-related interests, and 3) fostering the participants' successes so as to give them the confidence needed to pursue a research-related career. This strategy will be implemented through the following specific aims: (1) engage undergraduate and veterinary medical students in high-quality mentored research in the areas of heart, lung, and blood diseases; (2) provide comprehensive exposure to the various aspects of biomedical research through an organized program of activities; (3) bolster the trainees' understanding of the critical concepts of responsible conduct of research; (4) recruit trainees from populations underrepresented in the biomedical sciences; and (5) conduct comprehensive evaluations to determine the effectiveness of our programming in enhancing diversity in health-related biomedical research.

项目摘要/摘要 在疾病的存在、健康结果或获得医疗保健的机会方面，特定人群的差异是 这些问题被称为“健康差距”，是我们社会的一个重大问题。缺乏代表性的国家 服务不足的群体--包括少数族裔、经济困难的人和残疾人-- 生物医学研究和医疗保健人员已被确定为影响健康的关键因素 差距。事实上，进入生物医学研究领域的个人的人口统计差异是 有据可查。生物医学知识和医疗保健将受益于更广泛的纳入 从事生物医学研究的代表性不足的个人，因为包容性研究团队有更广泛的 制定研究议程的视角，可以更有效地招募不同的受试者参与临床研究 并更有效地提供医疗保健和减少健康差距。体验式学习 积极参与研究是培养下一代科学家和卫生保健的有效途径 研究人员。兽医通过比较研究进行对人类健康重要的研究 动物模型；不幸的是，兽医行业的种族和民族多样性并不比 一般的生物医学研究队伍。因此，这项建议旨在招募和全面 夏季让来自代表不足群体的本科生和兽医学生沉浸其中 在密歇根州立大学校园内的研究经验。这些研究经验将集中在 在三个主要领域：高血压、呼吸道疾病和组织病理学中的血细胞和成分。这个 我们教育研究计划的目标是增加代表不足的学生的数量 追求与生物医学研究相关的教育目标和与使命相关的职业道路的团体 NHLBI的区域。实现这一目标的战略包括：1)为学生参与者提供 身临其境的研究体验，让他们接触到研究职业的各个方面，2)培养 通过促进导师和同行网络的发展，以及创建 支持参与者研究相关兴趣的社区，以及3)培养参与者的 为了使他们有信心从事与研究有关的职业，他们将获得成功。这一战略将是 通过以下具体目标实施：(1)招收本科生和兽医专业学生 在心、肺和血液疾病领域的高质量指导研究；(2)提供全面的 通过有组织的活动计划接触生物医学研究的各个方面；(3)支持 受训者对负责任的研究行为的关键概念的理解；(4)从 在生物医学科学中代表性不足的人群；以及(5)进行全面评估，以 确定我们的规划在增强与健康相关的生物医学研究的多样性方面的有效性。