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民族学生在生物医学研究中的参与以及随后在教授中的领导地位。例如，在凯斯SOM生物医学博士课程中，不到10%的学生来自少数族裔（URM），我们的全职教师中只有2%是少数族裔。为了满足这一需求，该提案旨在为那些持有近期学士学位的少数族裔学生提供额外的研究培训，课程和学生发展，以成功过渡到生物医学博士课程。