STD/HIV Research Training for Minority Students

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求为少数民族卫生专业学生提供一个非常成功的短期研究培训计划。霍华德大学医学院、NIAID和七个NIAID资助的性病/艾滋病临床研究中心主任之间建立的富有成效的合作将继续下去。该方案的目标是使少数民族卫生专业学生在教学培训的早期接触到性传播疾病/艾滋病毒的研究，期望这将影响他们从事以性传播疾病/艾滋病毒及相关领域为重点的学术医学事业；从而有助于国家消除健康差距的努力。该项目的理念将继续基于这样一个前提，即受训者将积极参与研究事业的各个方面，而不仅仅是“一双手”。自1996年成立以来，已有70名学员（70人）参加了该项目，其中包括本项目期间的57名学员。对数据的分析显示，该项目正在实现其目标，即增加少数族裔在该领域的参与，其毕业生选择或表示有兴趣从事学术医学事业的人数证明了这一点。虽然大多数受训者仍在从事研究生培训，但初步数据表明，一些人已将这作为他们的职业选择。现要求每年支助9名受训人员，为期5年。学员的招聘和选择将由项目主任负责，而在培训地点选择研究导师将由各自的联合项目主任负责。受训者在被派往培训地点之前，将参加一个强制性的负责任的研究行为指导。他们将被要求准备一份手稿，其中将讨论他们的研究成果，并参加霍华德大学健康科学学生研究论坛，该论坛是性病/艾滋病毒研究员自1996年以来成功参加的年度竞赛。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This continuation application requests support for a highly successful short-term research training program for minority health professional students. The fruitful collaborations that were established between the Howard University College of Medicine, the NIAID, and the directors of seven NIAID funded STD/HIV Clinical Research Centers will be continued. The objective of the program is to expose minority health professional students to research on STDs/HIV early in their didactic training with the expectation that it will influence them to pursue careers in academic medicine with a focus on STDs/HIV and related fields; thus contributing to the nation's efforts to eliminate health disparities. The philosophy of the program will continue to be based upon the premise that the trainees will be actively involved in all aspects of the research enterprise and will not be "just a pair of hands." Since its inception in 1996, seventy trainees (70) have participated in this program including fifty-seven (57) during this project period. An analysis of the data revealed that this program is achieving its goal of increasing minority participation in this area as evidenced by the number of its graduates who have chosen or expressed an interest in pursuing careers in academic medicine. While of the majority of the trainees are still engaged in their post graduate training, preliminary data indicate that a number have made this their career choice. Support for nine (9) trainees per/year for five (5) years is being requested. The recruitment and selection of the trainees will be the responsibility of the program director while the selection of research mentors at the training sites will be the responsibility of the respective co-program directors. The trainees will attend a mandatory orientation to Responsible Conduct of Research prior to being sent to their training site. They will be required to prepare a manuscript in which their research findings will be discussed and to participate in the Howard University Health Sciences Student Research Forum, an annual competition in which STD/HIV fellows have successfully competed since 1996.