Biomedical Research Abroad: Vistas Open!/MHIRT

国外生物医学研究：Vistas Open!/MHIRT

• 批准号: 7000207
• 负责人: Charles R. Sterling
• 金额: $ 22.88万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-09-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7000207
• 关键词: Biomedical; Research; Abroad; Vistas; Open

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): H.G. Wells aptly remarked that human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. This is perhaps more true today than ever before. Science is advancing at a dizzying pace, yet science literacy rates among the general population are declining. A well-informed public may be an essential component to the advancement of science to keep fear from blocking the path to new discoveries. The need to advance science, and to bring it to bear on improving the health of populations and individuals is particular pressing when one considers the growing health disparities among populations in this country. Many factors contribute to these disparities including access to health care, quality of health care, environmental pollutants, genetic and life style differences, and attitudes of health care providers. This proposal describes a plan to prepare students from health disparities populations to address health disparities in the nation and in the world. The program, called Biomedical Research Abroad: Vistas Open! (BRAVO!/MHIRT), enables undergraduate, graduate and health professions students to conduct research abroad that builds upon the research they do at the University of Arizona (UA). Student projects span a broad range of disciplines but all are related to biomedical or behavioral research. The project will prepare students to address health disparities in a variety of ways: 1) trainees will continue to develop the critical thinking skills that they have acquired doing research at UA; 2) working in a foreign culture enables trainees to examine their own culture and stereotypes in a way that will allow them to see the problems of others and to approach these issues in a new way-which is critical to solving problems; 3) trainees will become more independent and confident as they find that they can contribute to the scientific effort in a foreign country; 4) the skills trainees acquire will integrate them further into the scientific community and make it more likely that their views will be heard both by scientists and in their home communities. For 12 years, the UA BRAVO!/MIRT Program has worked to increase the number of underrepresented students who pursue careers in biomedical and behavioral research. Of the 79 MIRT trainees to date, 75% have continued on for postbaccalaureate degrees (40% to med school; 60% to grad school), 9% are working in research labs, 11% are undergraduates and 5% are involved in other activities (teaching, etc).

描述(申请人提供)：H.G.威尔斯恰如其分地指出，人类历史越来越成为一场教育与灾难之间的竞赛。如今，这一点或许比以往任何时候都更加真实。科学正在以令人眼花缭乱的速度发展，但普通民众的科学识字率却在下降。消息灵通的公众可能是科学进步的重要组成部分，以防止恐惧阻碍新发现的道路。考虑到这个国家人口之间日益扩大的健康差距，发展科学并将其应用于改善人口和个人的健康的需要尤为紧迫。造成这些差距的因素很多，包括获得保健的机会、保健质量、环境污染物、遗传和生活方式差异以及保健提供者的态度。 这项建议描述了一项计划，使来自健康差距人群的学生做好准备，以解决国内和世界的健康差距问题。这项名为《海外生物医学研究：远景开放》的项目！(Bravo！/MHIRT)，使本科生、研究生和卫生专业学生能够在亚利桑那大学(UA)所做研究的基础上在国外进行研究。学生的专题横跨多个学科，但都与生物医学或行为研究有关。该项目将以多种方式培养学生解决健康差距的能力：1)学员将继续发展他们在UA进行研究时获得的批判性思维技能；2)在外国文化中工作，使学员能够审视自己的文化和刻板印象，使他们能够看到他人的问题，并以一种新的方式处理这些问题--这对解决问题至关重要；3)学员将变得更加独立和自信，因为他们发现自己可以为外国的科学努力做出贡献；4)受训者获得的技能将使他们进一步融入科学界，并使他们的观点更有可能被科学家和他们的家乡社区听到。 12年来，UA Bravo！/MIRT计划一直致力于增加从事生物医学和行为研究职业的未被充分代表的学生的数量。到目前为止，在MIRT的79名学员中，75%的人继续攻读学士学位后学位(40%进入医学院；60%进入研究生院)，9%在研究实验室工作，11%是本科生，5%从事其他活动(教学等)。