Improving data collection infrastructure to enhance evaluation capacity of graduate school

在被授予NIGMS IMSD的鼓舞下，UT Health的研究生院进行了一项战略性和制度性的 增加我们博士项目培训的未被充分代表(UR)学生的人数的挑战。完毕 在过去的七年里，我们的努力和倡议导致了申请UR学生人数的增加， 进入我们的生物医学博士项目，并从该项目毕业。在目前的备考机制下，我们 打算为有才华和热情的学生开发另一条进入生物医学科学的管道， 但还没有为研究生教育做好准备。 我们正在提出UTHealth-LINK学士学位毕业后培训计划，总体目标是 实施行之有效的循证方法，以招聘一批致力于职业生涯的候选人 生物医学研究。我们期望这个项目将使这些学生成功地参加 进入竞争激烈的博士培训计划，并最终在 生物医学科学。

Buoyed by the awarding of an NIGMS IMSD, UT Health’s graduate school undertook a strategic and institutional challenge to increase the pool of underrepresented (UR) students being trained in our doctoral programs. Over the last seven years, our efforts and initiatives have led to increases in the numbers of UR students applying to, matriculating in, and graduating from, our biomedical doctoral programs. With the current PREP mechanism, we intend to develop another pipeline into the biomedical sciences for students who are talented and passionate, yet underprepared for graduate education. We are proposing the UTHealth-LINK post baccalaureate training program with the overarching goal of implementing proven, evidence-based approaches to recruit a pool of candidates committed to careers in biomedical research. It is our expectation that this program will result in these students successfully competing for entrance into highly competitive doctoral training programs, and ultimately, realizing productive careers in the biomedical sciences.