Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP)

描述(由申请人提供)：西奈山医学院学士学位后研究教育计划(PREP)的目标是：(I)增加我们自己的研究生课程和其他优秀课程中代表不足的少数族裔(URM)博士和医学博士学生的入学人数。更长期的目标是促进URM更多地参与高水平的生物医学研究事业。我们将向新近毕业的URM大学毕业生证明，对他们来说，从事生物医学研究是一个令人兴奋和可以实现的选择。这一演示的中心活动是一种前沿的指导性研究体验，辅以特别研讨会、正在进行的工作、期刊俱乐部和参加会议的机会，(Ii)提高预科学者的成功能力，并在进入博士预科课程时脱颖而出。为了实现这一点，预科学者有机会适应研究生院/医学中心的环境，作为支持性预科微型社区的一部分，并在进行全面的博士预科课程之前成为更大的学术社区的正式参与者。预科学生还可以选择参加或审核适当的课程工作，以体验博士前学术工作的挑战，一次只有一门课程，当他们成功时，就会获得信心，并在下一个项目的要求方面获得“助力”。一系列个性化的发展活动将从他们自己的起点提高每个预科学者的技能，(3)通过将他们作为参与者和/或学习者带入这些领域的紧张的机构努力，促进后来对翻译研究的参与和减少保健差距。 西奈山的准备工作将建立在前4年的成功基础上，在此期间，第一年的绝大多数 完成预科的17名学者进入了博士课程；17名学者中有13人进入了博士(11人)或医学博士(2人)课程，并取得了强劲的进步，现在又有一人申请博士课程。为了进一步促进这一成功，并促进更深入地参与医疗和医疗保健差距问题，我们将细化计划要素，仔细监控计划的长期成功，并通过收集和分析短期和长期结果数据来评估特定计划要素的贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goals of Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP), for which renewed support is sought, are to: (i) increase enrollment of under-represented minority (URM) PhD and MD-PhD students in our own graduate programs and in other excellent programs. The longer-term goal is to contribute to greater URM participation in biomedical research careers at a high level of achievement. We will demonstrate to recent URM college graduates that a career in biomedical research is an exciting and achievable choice for them. The central activity in this demonstration is a cutting-edge mentored research experience, supplemented critically by special seminars, works-in-progress, journal clubs and opportunities to attend meetings, (ii) enhance PREP scholars' ability to succeed and, in significant numbers, to excel when they enter pre-doctoral programs. To achieve this, PREP scholars with be given the chance to adjust to a Graduate School/Medical Center environment as part of the supportive PREP mini-community and become full participants in the larger academic community before undertaking a full pre-doctoral course-load. PREP scholars will also have the option of taking or auditing appropriate course-work to experience the challenge of pre-doctoral academic work with a single course at a time and, when they succeed, gain confidence as well as a "leg-up" with respect to the requirements of their next program. An array of individualized development activities will enhance the skills of each PREP scholar from their own starting points, (iii) foster later participation in translational research and reduction of health care disparities by bringing them into the intense institutional efforts in these arenas as participants and/or learners. Mount Sinai's PREP will build on the success of its first 4 years during which a large majority of the first 17 PREP scholars to complete PREP entered doctoral programs; 13 of the 17 scholars entered PhD (11) or MD-PhD (2) programs and are progressing strongly, with one more now applying to PhD programs. To further enhance this success and foster an even deeper engagement with issues of health and health care disparities, we will refine the Program elements, will carefully monitor the long-term success of the Program and evaluate the contribution of specific Program elements by collecting and analyzing both short- and longterm outcomes data.