Mercy College COR Program at Psychiatric Institute

描述（由申请人提供）：与2010年健康人计划的目标一致，Mercy学院的研究职业机会计划旨在通过一个主要的研究中心，纽约州精神病学研究所/哥伦比亚大学（PI）和一个小型文理学院，Mercy学院（MC），其本科生主要是西班牙裔（33%）和非裔美国人（29%），继续互利和成功的合作，增加少数族裔本科生进入博士课程的人数。这种合作在很大程度上依赖于各机构对培训和社区服务的共同承诺，以及促进少数民族学生在高中、学士学位、研究生和博士后阶段取得成功的目标。该项目的具体目标包括：1)确定和招募5-10名在MC接受特殊研究教育的MC本科生优等生，并在他们的大三期间在MC进行合作研究培训，在大三和大四之间的夏季以及整个大四期间进行PI；从而提高MC学生进入和完成博士课程的资格，为心理健康研究的职业生涯做准备；3)在他们的心理健康培训期间，其中包括心理健康中心的教育（3门必修课程）、心理健康中心的研究培训（2门合作教育课程）和心理健康中心的研究培训（4门工读课程），强调现代心理健康领域调查员的标准概念和研究技能（例如科学方法、统计分析和计算机技术）；4)除了直接观察PI的心理健康研究是如何进行的，每个COR学员还将在他/她一年的独立研究项目（即论文研讨会）中，在Mercy学院导师和PI导师的共同监督下，从头到尾模拟研究过程；5)每位COR培训生将同时获得有关研究生入学选择和申请过程的专家建议和指导。在某种程度上，这项活动将在一系列由具有适当专业知识的外部演讲者与MC职业发展中心合作进行的专门问答环节的COR会议中得到促进。其他机构支持包括MC学习中心的工作人员为COR学员提供的特别课程（例如，练习GRE考试，接受个性化辅导），MC计算机中心的工作人员举办的特别研讨会，以加强计算机在研究中的使用，包括在Medline或PsyclNFO上进行文献检索，使用SPSS进行数据分析以及撰写APA风格的报告。最后，COR学员将通过参加国家NIMH-COR研讨会，在这些会议和其他科学会议上发表演讲，以及发表研究成果，为他们提供研究报告和交流机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Consistent with goals for Healthy People 2010, Mercy College's Career Opportunities in Research Program aims to increase the numbers of underrepresented minority undergraduates who enter doctoral programs by continuing a mutually beneficial and successful collaboration between a major research center, New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University (PI) and a small liberal arts college, Mercy College (MC), whose undergraduates are primarily Hispanic (33%) and African-American (29%). This collaboration relies heavily on the institutions' mutual commitment to training and community service and the goal to foster success in minority students' achievement at the high school, baccalaureate, graduate and post-doctoral levels. Specific aims of the project would include: 1) identifying and recruiting cohorts of 5-10 MC undergraduate honor students who seek special research education at MC combined with collaborative research training at MC during their junior year and PI during the summer between junior and senior year as well as throughout senior year; thereby 2) enhancing MC students' qualifications to enter and complete doctoral programs in preparation for careers in mental health research; by 3) stressing during their COR training, which includes Education at MC (3 required courses) in conjunction with research training at MC (2 cooperative education courses) and PI (4 work study courses), the standard concepts and research skills that characterize modern investigators in mental health fields (e.g., scientific methodology, statistical analysis, and computer technology); 4) in addition to observing first-hand how mental health research is being conducted at PI, each COR Trainee will also emulate the research process from start to finish during his/her year long independent research project (i.e., Thesis Workshop) under the joint supervision of an individual Mercy Faculty Mentor and PI Mentor; and 5) each COR Trainee will concurrently receive expert advice and guidance concerning the selection and application process for graduate school admission. In part, this activity will be facilitated during a series of COR Meetings dedicated to Q/A sessions conducted by outside speakers with appropriate expertise, working in conjunction with MC's Career Development Center. Other institutional support includes special sessions for COR Trainees with staff from MC's Learning Center (e.g., to practice GRE exam, receive individualized tutoring) to special workshops by staff in MC's Computer Center for reinforcing the use of computers in research including literature searches on Medline or PsyclNFO, data analysis with SPSS and writing APA style reports. Lastly, COR trainees will be provided with research presentation and networking opportunities through their participation at national NIMH-COR Colloquiums, presentations at these and other scientific meetings, and opportunities for publication of their research results.