VCU Initiative for Maximizing Student Development Program (IMSD)

VCU 最大化学生发展计划 (IMSD)

• 批准号: 10558223
• 负责人: HAMID I AKBARALI
• 金额: $ 10.51万
• 依托单位: VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-02-01 至 2028-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10558223
• 关键词: Program Development; Students

Project Summary The VCU Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) program has had an outstanding record of educating underrepresented scholars in biomedical research since its inception in 2010. The IMSD program previously supported as a R25 is now being formalized under a T32 mechanism while maintaining the rigor and excellence of training underrepresented minorities in biomedical sciences. The program has enrolled 26 pre- doctoral students and graduated 10 scholars with a PhD, with 13 that are currently in training. Our graduates have gone on to careers as scientists in biomedical industries and into postdoctoral research positions at highly prestigious institutions. The VCU IMSD program has a strong emphasis on mentorship with faculty receiving mentorship training. Safe lab practices, rigor and reproducibility and quantitative studies are essential elements within this training program to ensure that we develop a diverse pool of scientists with skills to impact biomedical research. The IMSD program is housed within the Center on Health Disparities and forms part of an integrative cohort of NIGMS supported research training programs. Three students per year will be selected from a growing pool of applicants to the biomedical research programs at VCU School of Medicine and receive funding for two years, resulting in a cohort of 6 funded scholars/year. The VCU IMSD T32 is an interdisciplinary program with state-of-the-art biomedical research training in diverse disciplines (Neuroscience, Microbiology and Immunology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physiology and Biophysics, Molecular and Human Genetics). In addition to the discipline specific requirements, the IMSD program will provide curricular activities that include opportunities to engage in health disparities courses. Incorporating health disparities courses into graduate-level curriculum will be of additional value in developing competencies necessary for biomedical professions and in motivating students to help eliminate health disparities during their diverse careers. IMSD scholars will be accepted into the program early and exposed to a pre-PhD program during summer prior to matriculation to their PhD programs. The pre-PhD program will focus on developing critical thinking skills, provide laboratory research and mini- course in Biochemistry to prepare students for the rigor of graduate training. Mentors will receive training in several aspects of mentoring including effective communication and developing compacts with the mentees. A cohort of faculty members have been trained as facilitators for mentoring, including the PI’s of this training grant. The long-term goal of this program is to increase the applicant pool of underrepresented minorities to the PhD programs and facilitate trainees to pursue biomedical research as a career path. It is expected that the VCU IMSD program will continue to enrich the individual student scholar, the broader learning community and the nations system of higher education.

项目摘要 VCU最大化学生发展计划（IMSD）计划的倡议已出色地记录 自2010年成立以来，教育生物医学研究的代表性不足的学者。IMSD计划 以前以R25为支持的人现在正在根据T32机制进行正规化，同时保持严格和 在生物医学科学领域代表性不足的培训卓越。该计划已注册26个 博士生和10名学者毕业，拥有13名目前正在培训的学者。我们的毕业生 从事生物医学行业的科学家并从事高度的博士后研究职位的职业 享有声望的机构。 VCU IMSD计划非常重视教师接受的指导 承资培训。安全实验室实践，严格和可重复性以及定量研究是必不可少的要素 在该培训计划中，以确保我们开发具有影响生物医学技能的科学家库 研究。 IMSD计划安置在健康差异中心，构成综合的一部分 NIGMS的同类支持研究培训计划。每年将从成长中选出三名学生 VCU医学院生物医学研究计划的申请人库，并获得两个 几年，每年有6个资助的学者组成的队列。 VCU IMSD T32是一个跨学科的程序 潜水学科的最先进的生物医学研究培训（神经科学，微生物学和免疫学， 药理学和毒理学，生理学和生物物理学，分子和人类遗传学）。除了 纪律特定要求，IMSD计划将提供课程活动，包括机会 从事健康差异课程。将健康差异课程纳入研究生级课程将 在发展生物医学专业人士所需的能力和激励的能力方面具有额外的价值 学生在潜在的职业生涯中帮助消除健康差异。 IMSD学者将被接受 早期计划，并在夏季矩阵之前参加博士学位课程之前接触了phd前计划。 PHD前计划将着重于发展批判性思维技能，提供实验室研究和微型 生物化学课程，为学生准备严格的研究生培训。导师将接受培训 心理的几个方面，包括有效的沟通和与心理的紧凑。一个 一群教职员工接受了心理培训，包括这项培训补助金的PI。 该计划的长期目标是将适用的代表性不足的少数民族库增加到博士学位 计划和促进的学员将生物医学研究作为职业道路。预计VCU IMSD计划将继续丰富个人科学，更广泛的学习社区和 高等教育的国家系统。