UAB Research in Aging through Mentorship and Practice - Undergraduate Program (UAB RAMP-UP)

UAB 通过指导和实践进行老龄化研究 - 本科课程 (UAB RAMP-UP)

• 批准号: 10548233
• 负责人: MONA N. FOUAD
• 金额: $ 36.85万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-01-15 至 2025-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10548233
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Despite efforts to increase the number of underrepresented researchers in universities across the country, there is a continued lack of diversity in Aging Research. The goal of the UAB Research in Aging through Mentorship and Practice – Undergraduate Program (UAB RAMP-UP) is to reduce disparities in health status and health outcomes in older adults by increasing the diversity in the aging workforce with a focus on underrepresented and rural undergraduate students. UAB RAMP-UP will select motivated undergraduate students who have completed their freshman year and provide them with the organizational, academic, and research skills needed to be competitive. The specific aims of UAB RAMP-UP are: 1) training a diverse cadre of promising undergraduate students by providing research education and hands-on mentored research experiences; 2) employing a team-mentoring approach to provide structured guidance for success in graduate school and future careers consisting of Personal Advocates, serving as promoters and champions, Academic Mentors, guiding them in a specific area of aging research, and Career Coaches, matched for demographics and background, helping them navigate the graduate school and early career processes; 3) customizing career roadmaps and providing career development opportunities; 4) adapting successful on-site training programs into on-site/virtual learning activities targeting aging content areas; 5) utilizing a combination of in-person interaction (i.e. Program Director, Institutional Coordinators, Career Support Teams) and virtual tools (e.g. web-based instruction, videoconferencing, social media) to ensure Trainees receive individual and continuous attention for several years as a cohort of learners; and 6) evaluating the program and its implementation to allow for quality improvement and mid-course corrections. Incorporating in-person and virtual didactic training combined with an intensive mentored research experience for eight weeks each in two summers, followed by a virtual maintenance year where participants will complete graduate school applications and prepare for success as graduate students, accentuated by a Virtual Journal Club examining aging-related literature, UAB RAMP-UP will train four cohorts totaling 56 Trainees, each working on an existing, aging-related research study during both summers and producing a presentation reporting findings from a research question they developed. A UAB-based Program Director and on-site Institutional Coordinators, will ensure that trainees remain connected to the program through training, mentoring, virtual learning, and social media platforms. UAB has a long history of preparing underrepresented undergraduate students for careers in research. By partnering with Historically Black Colleges and Universities and the University of Alabama, UAB RAMP-UP will benefit from a collaborative effort to expose Trainees eager to work on reducing health inequities in aging populations, to a diverse group of mentors participating in aging- related research and expanding opportunities for career development and networking.

尽管各国努力增加大学中代表性不足的研究人员的数量 国家的老龄化研究仍然缺乏多样性。 UAB 衰老研究的目标 通过指导和实践 - 本科生计划 (UAB RAMP-UP) 旨在减少健康方面的差异 通过增加老龄化劳动力的多样性，重点关注老年人的状况和健康结果 代表性不足的学生和农村本科生。 UAB RAMP-UP 将选择有积极性的本科生 完成大一学年的学生，为他们提供组织、学术和 研究技能需要具有竞争力。 UAB RAMP-UP 的具体目标是： 1) 培养多元化的干部 通过提供研究教育和实践指导研究来培养有前途的本科生 经验； 2）采用团队指导方法为研究生的成功提供结构化指导 学校和未来的职业包括个人倡导者，担任推动者和冠军， 学术导师，指导他们在衰老研究的特定领域，以及职业教练，匹配 人口统计和背景，帮助他们顺利完成研究生院和早期职业生涯； 3） 定制职业路线图并提供职业发展机会； 4）成功的现场调整 针对老化内容领域的现场/虚拟学习活动的培训计划； 5）利用组合 面对面互动（即项目总监、机构协调员、职业支持团队）和虚拟互动 工具（例如基于网络的教学、视频会议、社交媒体），以确保学员获得个人和 作为一群学习者多年来持续关注； 6) 评估该计划及其 实施以允许质量改进和中期纠正。 将面对面和虚拟教学培训与深入的指导研究相结合 两个夏天各进行八周的体验，然后是虚拟维护年，参与者 将完成研究生院申请并为研究生的成功做好准备，并强调 虚拟期刊俱乐部审查与衰老相关的文献，UAB RAMP-UP 将培训四个队列，总计 56 人 受训者在两个夏天都致力于一项现有的、与衰老相关的研究，并制作一份 演示报告他们提出的研究问题的结果。 UAB 的项目总监和 现场机构协调员将确保学员通过培训与该计划保持联系， 指导、虚拟学习和社交媒体平台。 UAB 在帮助代表性不足的人方面有着悠久的历史 从事研究职业的本科生。通过与历史悠久的黑人学院和大学合作 和阿拉巴马大学、UAB RAMP-UP 将受益于合作努力，以暴露受训者的渴望 致力于减少老龄化人口中的健康不平等，向参与老龄化的多元化导师群体 相关研究并扩大职业发展和网络机会。