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 疾病，健康结果或获得医疗保健的存在的人群特定差异是 被称为“健康差异”，它们在我们社会中是一个重要的关注。缺乏代表 服务不足的团体（包括少数民族，经济困扰和残疾人）在 生物医学研究和医疗保健劳动力已被确定为健康的关键因素 差异。实际上，从事生物医学研究职业的个人的人口统计学差异是 据记录。生物医学知识和医疗保健将受益于更广泛的包含 随着包容性研究团队更广泛的生物医学研究的代表性不足的人 制定研究议程的观点可以更有效地招募各种受试者进入临床研究 研究，并更有效地提供医疗保健和减少健康差异。经验学习 积极参与研究是护理下一代科学家和医疗保健的有效方法 研究人员。兽医通过比较研究进行对人类健康至关重要的研究 动物模型；不幸的是，兽医职业的种族和种族多样性并不比 总体而言，生物医学研究人员。这是该提案旨在招募和全面的 夏季，从代表性不足的小组中浸入本科和兽医医学生 密歇根州立大学校园的研究经验。这些研究经验将集中在 在三个主要领域：组织病理学中的高血压，气道疾病以及血细胞和成分。 我们的教育研究计划的目的是增加代表性不足的学生人数 购买与任务有关的生物医学研究相关的教育目标和职业道路的团体 NHLBI地区。实现此目标的策略涉及1）为学生参与者提供 沉浸式研究经验，使他们暴露于研究职业的各个方面，2）培养 参与者的科学身份通过支持导师和同伴网络的发展，并创建一个 支持参与者与研究相关的兴趣的社区，以及3）培养参与者 成功，以使他们获得从事研究相关职业所需的信心。这个策略将是 通过以下特定目标实施：（1）聘请本科和兽医医学生 在高质量的研究中，心脏，肺和血液疾病的研究； （2）提供全面 通过有组织的活动计划接触生物医学研究的各个方面； （3）加强 受训者对负责任的研究的关键概念的理解； （4）从 在生物医学科学中的人群不足； （5）进行全面的评估 确定我们编程在增强与健康相关的生物医学研究中多样性方面的有效性。