Research and Academic Enrichment Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）： 这项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弱势少数民族学生进入生物医学研究职业。这个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，以及密集的“动手”10周的研究经验。RACE TP将个别学生与研究教师导师相匹配，该计划将日常研究经验与正在进行的一系列小型课程，研讨会，圆桌讨论和每周晚间社交活动相结合。学术充实的另一个组成部分，包括强化学习技能和GRE/MCAT预备课程，旨在提高学术竞争力的水平，以促进学员进入研究生或医学院。具体目标是：1）提供一个密集的，短期的研究机会，使少数民族学生将发展心血管，肺，血液学和睡眠障碍研究的兴趣; 2）在职业决策的关键时刻为少数民族学生提供指导，以加强少数民族生物医学研究人员已经短缺的供应; 3）鼓励参与者的调查技能的发展，这可能会激发对研究职业的兴趣和热情的增加; 4）让少数民族学生接触医学院的环境，并为这些学生提供学习技能和GRE/MCAT课程，以提高他们的入学和学业成功的前景; 5）为少数民族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）招募这些有才华的学生进入UTMB或其他大学的MD，PhD或MD/PhD组合课程。这些目标将通过使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实现，以帮助识别和招募这些学生，使他们能够在实验室中亲身体验生物医学研究，优秀的教师导师将科学探究的兴奋带到生活中。这些学生随后进入职业生涯将被跟踪，以确定结果和评估该计划的成功。

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.