PREPing for SUCCESS

为成功做好准备

• 批准号: 10595519
• 负责人: Gracie Vargas
• 金额: $ 24.49万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10595519
• 关键词: Academic skills; Address; Admission activity; African American; Aptitude; Area; Biomedical Research; Communities; Complement; Counseling; Creativeness; Development; Development Plans; Disabled Persons; Doctor of Philosophy; Economically Deprived Population; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Enrollment; Ethnic Population; Evaluation; Faculty; Fostering; Funding; Goals; Graduation Rates; Health; Hispanic; Human; Immunity; Individual; Infection; Intervention; Laboratories; Laboratory Research; Medical; Mentors; Minority; Mission; Motivation; Native Americans; Outcome; Postbaccalaureate; Postdoctoral Fellow; Program Development; Research; Research Personnel; Scholars Program; Science; Scientific Advances and Accomplishments; Scientific Inquiry; Scientist; Students; System; Talents; Texas; Training; Training Programs; Translational Research; Underrepresented Minority; Underrepresented Populations; Underrepresented Students; Underserved Population; Universities; career; design; disadvantaged student; experience; faculty mentor; family support; flexibility; graduate school; graduate student; hands on research; health disparity; innovation; interest; laboratory experience; matriculation; peer coaching; programs; recruit; research and development; responsible research conduct; skill acquisition; skills; socioeconomic disadvantage; student training; success; support network; therapy design

PROJECT SUMMARY The UTMB ‘PREPing for SUCCESS’ PREP program is designed to provide promising post-baccalaureate trainees from groups underrepresented in the sciences (underrepresented minorities, persons with disabilities, socioeconomically disadvantaged students) demonstrating an aptitude for research, with a rigorous and enriching one-year training experience that will enhance their skills and confidence to successfully matriculate into and complete a PhD program. The program provides scholars/trainees with an immersive research experience in a funded top-tier laboratory (75% full-time effort) with development activities (25% full-time effort) that will help them build academic and professional skills, develop a science identity, reinforce the motivation to pursue and obtain a PhD. UTMB’s PREP program will help increase the number of students from underrepresented groups who successfully pursue and complete a PhD in the biomedical sciences, and enter the biomedical research workforce - a benefit expected to heighten our nation’s scientific innovation, discovery and global impact, with outcomes that are more likely to benefit underserved populations. Our recruitment strategy makes use of long-standing partnerships with faculty advisors from minority-serving universities across Texas to identify and attract students with high potential for pursuing a PhD that will benefit from focused research and professional skills development to matriculate into a PhD program. Actively working with our academic partners, 8 students/year will be recruited from a competitive pool of applicants to enroll in the year- long PREP program. The program strategy to reach our goal of > 75% matriculation and graduation rate, includes student-level interventions to develop each individual’s academic and research skills and confidence, as well as interventions designed to reduce external factors that impede success, including enhanced mentor training to optimize mentor-scholar relationships. Scholars will have multiple lines of mentoring and personal counseling. Additional special features of PREP involve the use of an innovative individual student development plan that includes a skills matching workshop to maximize potential for success, the involvement of PREP alumni and graduate students and postdocs from underrepresented groups in the program, training in responsible conduct of research, the ability of scholars to earn a graduate certificate, and continued mentoring beyond the PREP program for enhancing retention. Our goal is that we not only meet, but also exceed, the target of 75% of PREP scholars entering a doctoral program at a top tier research intensive graduate school.

项目总结 UTMB‘为成功做准备’的预科课程旨在提供有前途的毕业后 受训人员来自科学界任职人数不足的群体(任职人数不足的少数族裔、残疾人、 社会经济条件较差的学生)表现出研究能力，具有严谨和 丰富一年的培训经验，将增强他们成功入学的技能和信心 进入并完成博士学位课程。该计划为学者/实习生提供身临其境的研究 有资助的顶级实验室的经验(75%全职投入)和开发活动(25%全职投入) 这将帮助他们培养学术和专业技能，培养科学认同感，增强动力 攻读并获得博士学位。UTMB的预科计划将有助于增加来自 成功攻读并完成生物医学博士学位的代表不足的群体，并进入 生物医学研究队伍--这一福利有望促进我们国家的科学创新、发现 和全球影响，其结果更有可能惠及服务不足的人口。我们的招聘 战略利用与来自世界各地少数族裔服务大学的教师顾问的长期合作伙伴关系 德克萨斯州寻找和吸引具有攻读博士学位潜力的学生，这些学生将受益于专注 研究和专业技能发展，以进入博士课程。积极与我们的 学术合作伙伴，每年将从竞争激烈的申请者池中招募8名学生在本年度入学- 漫长的准备计划。为了达到我们75%的入学和毕业率的目标，我们的课程战略包括 学生一级的干预措施，以发展每个人的学术和研究技能和信心，以及 旨在减少阻碍成功的外部因素的干预措施，包括加强导师培训，以 优化导师与学者的关系。学者将有多条路线进行指导和个人咨询。 Prep的其他特殊功能包括使用创新的个人学生发展计划， 包括技能匹配研讨会，以最大限度地发挥成功的潜力，预科校友和 来自项目中代表性不足群体的研究生和博士后，负责任的行为培训 研究，学者获得研究生证书的能力，以及在准备阶段之后继续指导 提高保留率的计划。我们的目标是，我们不仅达到，而且超过75%的预备率的目标 进入顶级研究密集型研究生院攻读博士学位的学者。