Research and Academic Enrichment Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)： 这项关于研究和学术充实培训计划(RACE TP)的提案旨在促进优秀的、代表性不足和处于不利地位的少数族裔学生进入生物医学研究职业生涯。这一创新的研究和学术充实计划代表了一种创造性的方法，提供了接触生物医学概念、现代生物医学研究领域的机会，并提供了为期10周的密集“动手”研究体验。Race TP为个别学生和研究人员导师牵线搭桥，该项目将日常研究体验与持续的一系列迷你课程、研讨会、圆桌讨论和每周晚上的社交活动结合在一起。学术充实的另一个组成部分是强化学习技能和GRE/MCAT预科课程，旨在提高学术竞争力，以促进学员进入研究生院或医学院。具体目标是：1)提供密集的短期研究机会，使少数族裔学生对心血管、肺、血液和睡眠障碍的研究产生兴趣；2)在职业决策的关键时刻为少数族裔学生提供指导，以支持已经短缺的少数族裔生物医学研究人员；3)鼓励参与者发展调查技能，这可能会激发对研究事业的兴趣和热情；4)使少数族裔学生接触医学院环境，并为这些学生提供学习技能和GRE/MCAT课程，以增强他们的升学和学业成功的前景；5)为少数族裔学生提供有针对性的强化迷你课程，以提高他们的基本生物医学概念和技能；6)招收这些有才华的学生进入UTMB或其他大学的医学博士、博士或医学/博士相结合的课程。这些目标将通过利用我们现有的合作机构、健康前顾问、教师、校友和在校学生网络来帮助识别和招收这些学生，使他们能够在实验室亲身体验生物医学研究，在那里杰出的教师导师将科学研究的兴奋带入生活。将跟踪这些学生随后进入职业生涯的情况，以确定结果并评估该计划的成功。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal for a Research and Academic Enrichment Training Program (RACE TP) is designed to promote the entry of outstanding underrepresented and disadvantaged minority students into biomedical research careers. This innovative research and academic enrichment program represents a creative approach that provides an exposure to biomedical concepts, modern biomedical research areas, and an intensive "hand-on" 10-week research experience. RACE TP matches individual students with research faculty mentors, and the program couples the daily research experience with an ongoing series of minicourses, workshops, roundtable discussions and weekly evening social events. An additional component of academic enrichment consisting of intensive study skills and GRE/MCAT prep courses is designed to increase the level of academic competitiveness in order to facilitate the trainees matriculation into graduate or medical school. The specific objectives are: 1) To provide an intensive, short-term research opportunity so that minority students will develop an interest in cardiovascular, pulmonary, hematological, and sleep disorders research; 2) To provide mentoring for minority students at a critical time of career decision making in order to bolster the already short supply of minority biomedical investigators; 3) To encourage the development of participants investigative skills which may stimulate an increased level of interest and enthusiasm for a career in research; 4) To expose minority students to the medical school environment and provide these students with study skills and GRE/MCAT courses to enhance their prospects for matriculation and academic success; 5) To provide targeted, intensive mini courses for minority students in order to improve their basic biomedical concepts and skills; and 6) To recruit these talented students into the MD, PhD, or combined MD/PhD programs at UTMB or other universities. These objectives will be met by using our existing network of partnering institutions, pre-health advisors, faculty, alumni, and current students to help identify and recruit these students so that they can experience biomedical research first-hand in laboratories where outstanding faculty mentors bring the excitement of scientific inquiry to life. The subsequent entry of these students into professional careers will be tracked to determine outcomes and evaluate the success of the program.