Diabetes Institute Summer Interprofessional Research Experience (DISIRE) for Undergraduates

糖尿病研究所本科生暑期跨专业研究体验 (DISIRE)

• 批准号: 10331413
• 负责人: John Joseph Kopchick
• 金额: $ 10.8万
• 依托单位: OHIO UNIVERSITY ATHENS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-02-17 至 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10331413
• 关键词: Academic advising; Address; Admission activity; Appalachian Region; Applied Research; Arts; Awareness; Back; Biological Sciences; Caring; Chemistry; Clinical; Communities; Community Outreach; Country; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Disabled Persons; Education; Educational Curriculum; Engineering; Ensure; Environment; Exposure to; Faculty; Fostering; Future; Generations; Genetic; Goals; Graduate Degree; Health Occupations; Health Sciences; Hour; Immersion; Individual; Institutes; Institution; Instruction; Journals; Knowledge; Learning; Life; Mentors; Metabolism; Microbiology; Minority Health Research; Minority-Serving Institution; Mission; Molecular; Nutritional Science; Ohio; Osteopathic Medicine; Outcome; Participant; Pathway interactions; Physiology; Plant Roots; Population; Problem Solving; Process; Program Evaluation; Psychosocial Assessment and Care; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Resources; Rural Appalachia; Schools; Science; Self Efficacy; Self Management; Site; Structure; Students; Talents; Testing; Training; Translational Research; Underrepresented Minority; Underrepresented Students; Universities; Vision; Work; apprenticeship; base; bench to bedside; career; certificate program; clinical care; college; community engagement; demographics; design; disadvantaged population; diversity and inclusion; educational atmosphere; ethnic minority population; experience; fundamental research; graduate student; health disparity; higher education; improved; innovation; interdisciplinary collaboration; member; minority student; minority undergraduate; next generation; novel strategies; online course; participant retention; patient engagement; prevent; preventive intervention; programs; racial minority; recruit; response; skills; social media; summer institute; summer program; symposium; undergraduate research experience; undergraduate student; university student

Abstract: This proposal seeks to develop a “Diabetes Institute Summer Interprofessional Research Experience (DISIRE)” program to train undergraduate students. The vision for the DISIRE education program is to increase the number of underrepresented minority and Appalachian undergraduates who enter graduate programs in the biological sciences, health sciences or related fields. The Diabetes Institute at Ohio University will recruit a diverse group of 10 participants each year with a focus on minority students, first-generation Appalachian students, and persons with disabilities with little to no exposure to biological and health sciences graduate programs. DISIRE participants will train with experienced diabetes researchers in the 10-week summer program. Recruitment will target upperclassmen from minority serving institutions, small liberal arts colleges, and Appalachian universities without graduate programs or extensive education in diabetes. The DISIRE curriculum will be interdisciplinary-focused consisting of online instruction, weekly seminars, journal club didactics, a group capstone project, and research with a mentor. The online course will be an abridged version of “Diabetes: From Bench-to-Bedside”, an existing, comprehensive course that explores the genetics, physiology, treatment, self-management, and psychosocial care of diabetes. An innovative component of the DISIRE program is the group capstone project, a learning-pathway experience designed to encourage participants to think critically, develop problem-solving skills, encourage goal setting, and promote teamwork. The capstone project will address an important issue or problem about diabetes on their college or university campuses. Thus, the capstone project will not only benefit the participants’ communities, but also serves to foster a life-long community engagement of participants, as they will be able to directly observe the benefit of the implementation of scientific knowledge. The apprentice-based research experience, which will develop research skills and build self-efficacy in the participants, is a critical component of the DISIRE program. Each participant will design a research project with their selected mentor and be involved in all aspects of conducting research from hypothesis generation to dissemination of findings. The final research projects will be presented at a research symposium in conjunction with the other summer undergraduate programs and graduate programs at Ohio University. Project mentors will maintain a long-term mentoring relationship with participants and provide guidance and encouragement to the participants during the application process to graduate school.

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