Bridging Master's Students to the PhD

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的桥接计划的总体目标是帮助促进人才不足的少数民族硕士生的发展，并鼓励他们追求先进的培训，导致生物医学博士学位在得克萨斯大学医学分支（UTMB）毕业后。我们拟议的计划的主要特点将是广泛的校园互动，整合MS和博士课程，并提高我们为生命科学和非传统学生（例如数学，计算机科学，工程专业）提供生物医学培训的能力。MS学生将来自德克萨斯州南部的三所学校，这些学校的少数民族学生入学率很高，并提供科学硕士课程。他们代表了UTMB广泛合作的大学和项目，并与科学教师和顾问建立了密切的关系。 拟议方案的具体目标是： 1.建立一个招生过程，同时承认MS学生进入桥梁和博士课程。 2.通过让UTMB生物医学科学研究生院（GSBS）的教师参与进来，加强合作机构对硕士生的指导和咨询计划。 3.提供课程交流，并建立伙伴机构和UTMB GSBS之间的课程等效性。 4.为硕士生提供在UTMB进行部分论文研究的机会。 5.确保所有硕士生在科学诚信正规，完善的课程。 6.促进硕士机构和UTMB教师之间的研究合作，提高硕士机构的研究能力。 7.建立学生选择进入衔接计划的标准，并设定具体的目标和可衡量的结果，以跟踪计划的进展。 该计划的几个关键成果将是：1）建立伙伴关系，支持和促进少数民族学生从硕士课程过渡到生物医学博士学位; 2）集中精力和资源，主要受益于合作的硕士机构及其学生; 3）增强硕士学生的竞争力和信心，使他们能够成功完成博士学位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of the proposed bridging program is to help foster the development of talented underrepresented minority master's students and encourage them to pursue advanced training leading to a biomedical PhD at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) after graduation. Key features of our proposed program will be the extensive campus interactions to integrate the MS and doctoral programs and also advance our ability to offer biomedical training to both life science and non-traditional students (e.g. mathematics, computer science, engineering majors). The MS students will come from three schools located in south Texas that have a high minority student enrollment and offer a terminal master's program in the sciences. They represent universities and programs that UTMB has partnered with extensively and has established close relationships with the science faculty and advisors. The specific aims of the proposed program are to: 1. Establish an admissions process that simultaneously admits MS students into both the Bridges and PhD programs. 2. Enhance the partner institution's mentoring and advising programs for master's students by involving faculty from UTMB's Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS). 3. Provide for curricular exchange and establish course equivalencies between the partner institutions and the UTMB GSBS. 4. Provide opportunities for master's students to conduct part of their thesis research at UTMB. 5. Ensure that all master's students have formal, well-established coursework in scientific integrity. 6. Foster research collaborations between faculty at the master's institution and UTMB and enhance the research capabilities of the master's institution. 7. Establish criteria for student selection into the bridging program and set specific goals and measurable outcomes to allow tracking of the program's progress. Several key outcomes from the program will be: 1) the creation of a partnership that supports and facilitates the transition of minority students from a master's program to a biomedical PhD; 2) a focusing of effort and resources to benefit largely the partnering master's institution and its students; 3) an enhancement of the competitiveness and confidence of the master's students so they can successfully complete the PhD.