UM-SPAHS Endowment Fund Program

描述（由申请人提供）：药学和联合健康科学的蒙大拿大学学校有着悠久的历史，并致力于招聘和培训少数民族学生（主要是美洲原住民印第安人）在药学和物理治疗学位。最近获得的美国原住民卓越中心（NACOE）赠款建立在为HHS-健康职业机会计划（HCOP），NIH-学士学位桥梁计划（BRIDGES）和NSF-EPSCoR计划获得资金的基础上，为药学（Pharm.D.）中代表性不足的少数民族提供学位培训所需的环境和基础设施，物理治疗（MS）和D.P.T.），以及最近的研究生教育（M.S.，Ph.D.）。在过去的十年里，药学科学学院的研究基础设施急剧增加，使学院在NIH资助的85所学校/药学院中排名第11位。教师。该部门已经建立了两个国家批准的研究中心，并提供两个硕士学位。两个博士程序.捐赠基金计划的主要目标是通过培训和招聘工作增加至少两个终身教职的少数民族教师，同时保持最近在药学，物理治疗和研究生课程中少数民族学生的招聘，保留和培训方面的成功。将继续扩大对少数群体健康差距的重点研究。这些目标将通过以下方式实现：1）为少数民族教师（最好是美洲原住民印第安人）创建新的终身教职教师队伍，2）增加获得药学博士学位的少数民族学生的机会。或DPT 3）增加少数民族学生攻读博士学位的机会。℃下4)永久的一个强大的计划，以招募和培训本科少数民族学生，5）使用捐赠收入，以利用额外的机构/州和联邦支持，和6）捐赠语料库的逐步增长。优先使用的捐赠收入是A）招聘和培训两个少数民族博士，学生和一个少数民族后药学博士。研究员（1-3年）和B）完成培训和/或招聘两名少数民族教师，优先考虑美洲原住民教师候选人，特别是那些参与健康差距研究（3-5年）。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Montana School of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences has a long standing history and commitment to the recruitment and training of minority students (principally Native American Indians) for degrees in pharmacy and physical therapy. The recently obtained Native American Center of Excellence (NACOE) grant builds on strength from funding obtained for the HHS-Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP), the NIH-Bridges to Baccalaureate Program (BRIDGES), and the NSF-EPSCoR Program to provide both the environment and the infrastructure necessary to offer degree training for under-represented minorities in pharmacy (Pharm.D.), physical therapy (M.S. and D.P.T.), and more recently in graduate education (M.S., Ph.D.). Research infrastructure has dramatically increased in the School's Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the past ten years to the point where the School is ranked 1lth of 85 schools/Colleges of Pharmacy in NIH funding per Ph.D. faculty. The Department has created two state-approved research centers and offers two M.S. and two Ph.D. programs. The primary goal of the Endowment Fund Program is to add at least two tenure track minority faculty through training and recruitment efforts, while perpetuating recent success in the recruitment, retention, and training of minority students in Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, and Graduate programs. Focus on minority health disparities research will continue to be expanded. These goals will be accomplished as follows: 1) creating new tenure track faculty lines for minority faculty (preferably Native American Indians), 2) Enhancing opportunities for minority students who earn the Pharm.D. or D.P.T. degree to obtain postdoctoral fellowship training in clinically relevant areas, 3) Enhancement of opportunities for minority students to pursue graduate training leading to the Ph.D. degree. 4) Perpetuation of a strong program to recruit and train undergraduate minority students, 5) Use of endowment income to leverage additional institutional/state and federal support, and 6) Progressive growth of the endowment corpus. Priorities for use of the endowment income are A) Recruitment and training of two minority PhD, students and one minority post Pharm.D. Fellow (Years 1-3) and B) Complete training and/or recruitment of two minority faculty with priority given to Native American Faculty candidates, particularly those involved in health disparities research (Years 3-5).