University of California San Diego Outreach Program To Inspire Minority and Underrepresented Students (OPTIMUS)

加州大学圣地亚哥分校外展计划激励少数族裔和代表性不足的学生 (OPTIMUS)

• 批准号: 10516465
• 负责人: Christopher P Halter
• 金额: $ 40.91万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-12 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10516465
• 关键词: Age; Biomedical Research; California; Cancer Center; Caring; Communities; Community Outreach; Complement; Coupled; Development; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Environment; Exposure to; Faculty; Fellowship; Fellowship Program; Foundations; Funding; Future; Generations; Goals; Graduate Education; Health Care Research; High School Outreach; High School Student; Immersion; Individual; Institutes; Learning; Malignant Neoplasms; Medical Students; Mentors; Mission; NCI Scholars Program; Nonprofit Organizations; Physicians; Population; Positioning Attribute; Professional Education; Research; Research Personnel; Running; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education; Students; Training; Underrepresented Minority; Underrepresented Students; Universities; after-school program; anticancer research; apprenticeship; cancer education; cancer prevention; cohort; community based research; design; education research; elementary school; experience; faculty research; falls; fifth grade; fourth grade; graduate student; interest; laboratory experience; minority student; outreach; outreach program; programs; sixth grade; skills; success; supportive environment

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Outreach Program To Inspire Minority and Underrepresented Students (OPTIMUS) within Moores Cancer Center at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) seeks to create an engaging educational experience for underrepresented minority high school students within the local San Diego region. The overarching goal of this program aligns fully with the NCI's mission to increase diversity in the biomedical and cancer research workforce. The first objective (OPTIMUS Scholars Program) aims to provide an engrossing summer cancer research fellowship program for underrepresented minority high school students (OPTIMUS Scholars). This program will pair OPTIMUS Scholars with supportive research faculty for a mentored research experience. The students will concurrently participate in a complementary educational curriculum that covers core topics in cancer research, coupled to an array of personal and professional development activities. This objective aims to generate a lasting interest in science, healthcare, and cancer research among our underrepresented students. The second objective (OPTIMUS Associates Program) seeks to integrate UCSD biomedical trainees and education graduate students (OPTIMUS Associates) in the educational and operational aspects of OPTIMUS. We will create a new interprofessional course to teach our OPTIMUS Associates the skills required to create and implement an outreach program such as OPTIMUS. We will then provide an experiential education opportunity by incorporating our OPTIMUS Associates as apprentices into the operational aspects of the OPTIMUS Scholars program. This objective strives to create a generation of biomedical trainees and education graduate students who will become future leaders in creating and implementing community-based research education programs such as OPTIMUS. The final objective (OPTIMUS Educational Outreach Program) will have OPTIMUS Scholars teach local elementary school students in their community about basic concepts of cancer and cancer prevention. Our OPTIMUS Scholars will partner with our OPTIMUS Associates to create an interactive age-appropriate curriculum to deliver to these younger elementary school students. This objective partners with a local non- profit STEM-focused organization called the Elementary Institute of Science. This objective stands to solidify fundamental concepts of cancer among our OPTIMUS Scholars (learn by teaching), and will help teach younger local elementary students about the fundamentals of cancer. Altogether, these three objectives with OPTIMUS leverage the diverse and supportive environment within UCSD to help provide engaging opportunities for underrepresented students within our local community. Support for our program will help us take important strides to creating a future cancer research workforce that reflects the diversity of our community.

项目总结/摘要 该外展计划，以保护少数民族和代表性不足的学生（OPTIMUS）在摩尔 加州圣地亚哥大学（UCSD）癌症中心旨在创建一个引人入胜的教育 在当地圣地亚哥地区代表性不足的少数民族高中学生的经验。的 该计划的总体目标与NCI的使命完全一致，以增加生物医学和生物医学领域的多样性。 癌症研究人员队伍。 第一个目标（OPTIMUS学者计划）旨在提供一个引人入胜的夏季癌症研究 奖学金计划为代表性不足的少数民族高中学生（OPTIMUS学者）。此程序将 将OPTIMUS学者与支持性研究人员配对，以获得指导性研究经验。学生将 同时参加涵盖癌症研究核心主题的补充教育课程， 再加上一系列的个人和专业发展活动。这一目标旨在产生一个 在科学，医疗保健和癌症研究我们的代表性不足的学生持久的兴趣。 第二个目标（OPTIMUS协会计划）旨在整合UCSD生物医学学员， 教育研究生（OPTIMUS协会）在OPTIMUS的教育和运营方面。 我们将创建一个新的跨专业课程，教授我们的OPTIMUS同事创建所需的技能 并实施一个外展计划，如OPTIMUS。然后我们将提供一个体验式的教育 通过将我们的OPTIMUS同事作为学徒纳入运营方面， OPTIMUS学者计划。这一目标努力培养一代生物医学受训人员， 教育研究生，他们将成为创建和实施基于社区的未来领导者 研究教育计划，如OPTIMUS。 最终目标（OPTIMUS教育推广计划）将有OPTIMUS学者教当地 小学生在他们的社区了解癌症和癌症预防的基本概念。我们 OPTIMUS Scholars将与我们的OPTIMUS Associates合作， 为这些年龄较小的小学生提供的课程。这一目标与当地的非合作伙伴- 盈利STEM为重点的组织称为科学的基础研究所。这一目标将巩固 癌症的基本概念在我们的OPTIMUS学者（通过教学学习），并将帮助教 向当地的小学生介绍癌症的基本知识。 总之，OPTIMUS的这三个目标利用了内部的多样化和支持性环境。 UCSD帮助为我们当地社区中代表性不足的学生提供参与机会。 对我们项目的支持将帮助我们迈出重要的一步，创造一个未来的癌症研究队伍， 反映了我们社区的多样性。