Bridges to the Baccalaureate Research Training Program at University of Illinois at Chicago

摘要 拟议方案的任务是制定一个持久的、强有力的机构培训方案 有才华的代表不足的少数族裔(URM)学生在生物医学研究方面追求职业生涯。我们的节目 建立在芝加哥伊利诺伊州社区学院马尔科姆X学院(MXC)和 伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校(UIC)是该地区最大的公立研究型大学。该计划是 建立在这样一个想法之上的是，如果一个培训计划要成功地为相关学生提供服务，还必须 改变学生的本科经历、教职员工和相关机构。因此，我们有 三个具体目标：(1)招聘和支持受训人员；(2)参与教师发展，以提高 包容性；(3)多层次的制度转型。在这三个目标之间穿梭是一种 持续关注学生和他们的社区如何受到健康差距的影响，特别是 关注癌症研究，但也纳入了适用于各种 与茎相关的领域。与目标1相关的活动包括在#完成科学入门课程 MXC，在转到UIC之前和之后与录取转学顾问接触，参与UIC 关于研究方法、伦理和科学文化的研讨会，参加暑期研究经验 与UIC导师合作，并在地方和国家会议上介绍成果。与AIM相关的活动 2在入门课程中重点介绍癌症研究，并为学生提供结构化的研究体验， 以及参加年度指导研讨会和扩大倡议，以解决癌症在 实验室环境。最后，与目标3相关的活动包括发展研究职业咨询。 MXC，就B2B培训计划和生物医学研究机会提供建议，并监测 我们节目的进展情况。我们假设，一个专注于健康差距和 学员及其社区的声音，可以支持学员在生物医学领域的发展 研究人员，改变教师和导师处理科学教学和培训的方式，并发展 在机构层面开展强有力的活动，使研究、医疗保健和教育更具包容性。

Abstract The mission of the proposed program is to develop a lasting, robust institutional training program for highly talented underrepresented minority (URM) students to pursue careers in biomedical research. Our program builds on the existing partnership between Malcolm X College (MXC), a community college in Chicago IL, and University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), the largest, public, Research I University in the region. The program is built upon the idea that a training program, if it is to be successful in serving associated students, must also change the students’ undergraduate experience, the faculty, and the institutions involved. Hence, we have three specific aims: (1) recruiting and supporting trainees, (2) engaging in faculty development to enhance inclusion, and (3) institutional transformation at multiple levels. Weaving through these three aims is a consistent focus on how the students and their communities are impacted by health disparities, with particular attention paid to cancer research, but also incorporating methodology and themes applicable to a variety of STEM-related fields. Activities associated with Aim 1 include completion of introductory science courses at MXC, engagement with admission transfer advisors before and after transfer to UIC, participation in UIC workshops on research methods, ethics, and culture of science, participation in summer research experiences with UIC mentors, and presentation of results at local and national conferences. Activities associated with Aim 2 include focus on cancer research in introductory courses and structured research experiences for students, and participation in annual mentoring workshops and expanding initiatives that address cancer disparities in a laboratory setting. Finally, activities associated with Aim 3 include development of research career advising at MXC, advising about the B2B training program and biomedical research opportunities, and monitoring progress of our program. We hypothesize that a program focused on questions of health disparities and the voices of the trainees and their communities, can support trainees in their development as biomedical researchers, change how instructors and mentors approach the teaching and training in science, and develop robust activities at the institutional level that can make research, health care, and education more inclusive.