Case Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP)

案例 学士后研究教育计划 (PREP)

• 批准号: 7136544
• 负责人: ALISON K HALL
• 金额: $ 25.63万
• 依托单位: CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-08-01 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7136544
• 关键词: career; health science profession; health science research potential; mentoring /mentor; minority health professional; performance; psychological tests; training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A major challenge for the scientific community is to increase the participation of underrepresented minority students in biomedical research and subsequent leadership in the professoriate. For example, less than 10% of students in Case SOM biomedical PhD programs come from underrepresented minorities (URMs), and 2% of our full time faculty are URM. To address this need, this proposal is designed to prepare underrepresented minority students who hold a recent baccalaureate degree with additional research training, coursework and student development to successfully transition into biomedical doctoral programs. This proposal requests funds to support 12 students per year (six in the first year) to engage in research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology and microbiology, neuroscience, nutrition, pathology, pharmacology or physiology and biophysics. The program will coordinate the expertise of the faculty in an integrated postgraduate training program. Participating faculty mentors all have active and well-funded research programs that contribute to a lively and stimulating scientific environment. In addition to one-two years laboratory experience, students will complete academic coursework to augment their quantitative and biomedical foundation and acquire professional presentation skills. Further, students will have direct tutoring in standardized test preparation and assistance in the preparation of graduate school applications. The participating mentors are located at Case School of Medicine and already interact in the training of graduate students throughout our interdisciplinary PhD programs. The Institution has demonstrated continued success in attracting underrepresented minority students into our medical programs, and will focus that experience now in increasing minority matriculation into graduate programs. Students will be recruited from a national pool of applicants using comprehensive recruitment strategies. Each aim is associated with measurable outcomes that assay science interest, matriculation into graduate and other programs, changes in standardized tests as well as information about program efficacy. This combination of interventions is designed to convey the excitement and culture of scientific research along with the academic and programmatic preparation to students and prepare them to transition to graduate school and a biomedical research career.

描述(由申请人提供)：科学界面临的一个主要挑战是增加未被充分代表的少数族裔学生参与生物医学研究并随后在教授中发挥领导作用。例如，在凯斯管理学院生物医学博士项目中，只有不到10%的学生来自代表不足的少数族裔(URM)，而我们的全职教师中有2%是URM。为了满足这一需求，这项提议旨在为持有最近获得学士学位的少数族裔学生提供额外的研究培训、课程作业和学生发展方面的准备，以便成功过渡到生物医学博士课程。 这项建议要求每年资助12名学生(第一年6名)从事生物化学、遗传学、分子生物学和微生物学、神经科学、营养学、病理学、药理学或生理学和生物物理学的研究。该计划将在一个综合的研究生培训计划中协调教师的专业知识。所有参与的教师导师都有积极的、资金充足的研究项目，有助于创造一个活跃和鼓舞人心的科学环境。除了一年至两年的实验室工作经验外，学生还将完成学术课程，以加强他们的量化和生物医学基础，并获得专业的陈述技能。此外，学生将得到标准化考试准备的直接辅导，并在准备研究生院申请方面提供帮助。参与的导师位于凯斯医学院，在我们的跨学科博士项目中，他们已经参与了研究生的培训。该机构在吸引少数族裔学生进入我们的医学课程方面继续取得成功，并将把这种经验集中在增加少数族裔预科进入研究生课程方面。将使用全面的招聘战略从全国申请者库中招聘学生。每个目标都与可衡量的结果相关联，这些结果分析了科学兴趣、研究生入学和其他项目、标准化考试的变化以及有关项目有效性的信息。这种干预措施的组合旨在向学生传达科学研究的兴奋和文化，以及学术和方案准备，并为他们过渡到研究生院和生物医学研究生涯做好准备。