Summer Research at the University of Minnesota Medical School

摘要 该计划的长期目标是利用机构资源，包括物质和人力资本，以 支持充满活力、具有挑战性和支持性的研究培训计划，以促进发展 更广泛地代表我们社会多样性的未来生物医学科学劳动力的未来。很明显， 我们认为，目前这一劳动力队伍缺乏多样性，特别是在博士和专业人员层面，阻碍了 美国无法充分发挥潜力，加强心血管、肺和血液的预防和治疗 疾病。这种缺乏多样性带来的挑战包括难以从 将代表不足的群体纳入临床试验，并努力消除不成比例的健康差距 影响代表人数不足的群体中的个人。特别令人关切的是，鉴于快速变化 美国的人口结构是这样一个现实，即缺乏多样性会缩小人才的渠道和视角 能够推进国家心肺血液研究所的科学使命的个人。 为了实现这一长期目标，我们制定了一系列短期目标：1.招聘多元化、 来自美国和波多黎各各地的一批学业优秀的学生到加州大学 并为学生参与者提供一个由教师指导的独立研究项目 机会，2.维护以前开发的创新研究-培训模块，专门用于招聘和 培训一批学生，他们是从参与者中挑选出来的，他们致力于追求 MD-PhD学位，以及3.开发一系列旨在为项目参与者提供技能的研讨会 需要成功竞争博士课程的录取资格。我们的工作假设是 为这些参与者提供的培训将为他们提供所需的技能、经验和抱负 成功竞争博士、医学博士和其他高级学位课程的录取资格。 拟议的研究培训计划将为从美国各地招募的22名本科生提供 和波多黎各在以下实验室进行为期10周的夏季强化独立研究体验 明尼苏达大学双子城校区的项目教师导师。预计其中六个 学生将参加前面提到的医学博士合并模块。所有被选中的学生都将拥有 一到四年的大学本科教育。要想成为合格的学生，不能 然而，他们已经获得了学士学位，并且必须自我认同为代表不足的一员 种族或民族群体，或被残疾，或处于不利地位。 这一培训计划成功与否的最终衡量标准将是它是否有能力帮助计划参与者 成为生物医学科学工作者的一员，从事心血管、肺或血液方面的研究 疾病。预计三分之一至一半的学生参与者将继续深造 在完成学士学位课程后获得生物科学的研究学位。

Abstract The long-term goal of this program is to harness institutional resources, both physical and human capital to support a vibrant, challenging and supportive research training program that can contribute to the development of a future biomedical scientific workforce that more broadly represents the diversity of our society. It is clear to us that the current lack of diversity in this workforce, particularly at the doctoral and professional level, prevents us from reaching our full potential to enhance the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular, lung and blood diseases. Challenges stemming from this lack of diversity include difficulty in recruiting individuals from underrepresented groups into clinical trials, and efforts to eliminate health disparities that disproportionately affect individuals from under-represented groups. Of particular concern, given the rapidly changing demographics in the US, is the reality that a lack of diversity narrows the pipeline and perspectives of talented individuals who can advance the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute’s scientific mission. To address this long-term goal, we have developed a number of short-term objectives: 1. Recruit a diverse, academically outstanding cohort of students from across the US and Puerto Rico to the University of Minnesota, and provide student participants with a program faculty-mentored independent research opportunity, 2. Maintain a previously developed innovative research-training module devoted to recruiting and training a cohort of students, selected from participant pool, who are committed to the pursuit of a combined MD-PhD degree, and 3. Develop a series of workshops designed to provide program participants with skills needed to successfully compete for admission to a doctoral programs. Our working hypothesis is that the training provided to these participants will provide them with the skills, experience, and ambition required to successfully compete for admission to PhD, MD-PhD and other advanced degree programs. The proposed research training program will provide 22 undergraduate students recruited from across the US and Puerto Rico to an intensive 10-week summer independent research experience in the laboratories of program faculty mentors on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus. It is anticipated that six of these students will participate in the aforementioned combined MD-PhD module. All students selected will have had between one and four years of university education at the baccalaureate level. To be eligible students must not yet have received their baccalaureate degree, and must self-identify as a member of an underrepresented racial or ethnic group, or be disabled, or disadvantaged. The ultimate measure of the success of this training program will be it’s ability to assist program participants in becoming members of the biomedical scientific workforce, pursuing research in cardiovascular, lung or blood diseases. It is anticipated that between a third and a half of student participants will go on to pursue advanced research degrees in the biological sciences upon completion of their baccalaureate degree programs.