STD/HIV Research Training for Minority Students

描述（由申请人提供）：此延续申请要求为少数民族卫生专业学生提供非常成功的短期研究培训计划的支持。霍华德大学医学院、NIAID和七个NIAID资助的性病/艾滋病临床研究中心的主任之间建立的富有成效的合作将继续下去。该方案的目标是让少数民族卫生专业学生在教学培训的早期就接触到关于性传播疾病/艾滋病毒的研究，期望这将影响他们从事以性传播疾病/艾滋病毒及相关领域为重点的学术医学职业;从而为国家消除健康差距的努力做出贡献。该计划的理念将继续基于这样一个前提，即受训者将积极参与研究企业的各个方面，而不仅仅是“一双手”。“自1996年开办以来，已有七十名受训人员（70人）参加了这一方案，包括本项目期间的五十七名（57人）。对数据的分析表明，该方案正在实现其增加少数民族参与这一领域的目标，这一点可以从选择或表示有兴趣从事学术医学职业的毕业生人数中得到证明。虽然大多数受训人员仍在接受研究生培训，但初步数据表明，有一些人已将此作为其职业选择。目前正在申请每年为九（9）名受训人员提供五（5）年的支助。学员的招募和选择将由项目主任负责，而培训地点的研究导师的选择将由各自的联合项目主任负责。在被派往培训中心之前，学员将参加一个强制性的研究负责任行为指导。他们将被要求准备一份手稿，其中将讨论他们的研究结果，并参加霍华德大学健康科学学生研究论坛，这是一个年度比赛，性病/艾滋病毒研究员自1996年以来成功地参加了比赛。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This continuation application requests support for a highly successful short-term research training program for minority health professional students. The fruitful collaborations that were established between the Howard University College of Medicine, the NIAID, and the directors of seven NIAID funded STD/HIV Clinical Research Centers will be continued. The objective of the program is to expose minority health professional students to research on STDs/HIV early in their didactic training with the expectation that it will influence them to pursue careers in academic medicine with a focus on STDs/HIV and related fields; thus contributing to the nation's efforts to eliminate health disparities. The philosophy of the program will continue to be based upon the premise that the trainees will be actively involved in all aspects of the research enterprise and will not be "just a pair of hands." Since its inception in 1996, seventy trainees (70) have participated in this program including fifty-seven (57) during this project period. An analysis of the data revealed that this program is achieving its goal of increasing minority participation in this area as evidenced by the number of its graduates who have chosen or expressed an interest in pursuing careers in academic medicine. While of the majority of the trainees are still engaged in their post graduate training, preliminary data indicate that a number have made this their career choice. Support for nine (9) trainees per/year for five (5) years is being requested. The recruitment and selection of the trainees will be the responsibility of the program director while the selection of research mentors at the training sites will be the responsibility of the respective co-program directors. The trainees will attend a mandatory orientation to Responsible Conduct of Research prior to being sent to their training site. They will be required to prepare a manuscript in which their research findings will be discussed and to participate in the Howard University Health Sciences Student Research Forum, an annual competition in which STD/HIV fellows have successfully competed since 1996.