Biomedical Research Abroad: Vistas Open!/MHIRT

国外生物医学研究：Vistas Open!/MHIRT

• 批准号: 7247154
• 负责人: Charles R. Sterling
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-09-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7247154
• 关键词: Address; Arizona; Attitude; Behavioral Research; Biomedical Research; Communities; Country; Discipline; Education; Educational process of instructing; Environmental Pollutants; Fright; General Population; Genetic; Health; Health Occupations; Health Personnel; Health Professional; Health Services Accessibility; Hearing; Home environment; Human; Individual; Life Style; Numbers; Population; Problem Solving; Race; Range; Rate; Recording of previous events; Research; Schools; Science; Scientist; Stereotyping; Students; Thinking; Today; Universities; Ursidae Family; Work; career; health care quality; health disparity; improved; literacy; programs; skills

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): H.G. Wells aptly remarked that human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. This is perhaps more true today than ever before. Science is advancing at a dizzying pace, yet science literacy rates among the general population are declining. A well-informed public may be an essential component to the advancement of science to keep fear from blocking the path to new discoveries. The need to advance science, and to bring it to bear on improving the health of populations and individuals is particular pressing when one considers the growing health disparities among populations in this country. Many factors contribute to these disparities including access to health care, quality of health care, environmental pollutants, genetic and life style differences, and attitudes of health care providers. This proposal describes a plan to prepare students from health disparities populations to address health disparities in the nation and in the world. The program, called Biomedical Research Abroad: Vistas Open! (BRAVO!/MHIRT), enables undergraduate, graduate and health professions students to conduct research abroad that builds upon the research they do at the University of Arizona (UA). Student projects span a broad range of disciplines but all are related to biomedical or behavioral research. The project will prepare students to address health disparities in a variety of ways: 1) trainees will continue to develop the critical thinking skills that they have acquired doing research at UA; 2) working in a foreign culture enables trainees to examine their own culture and stereotypes in a way that will allow them to see the problems of others and to approach these issues in a new way-which is critical to solving problems; 3) trainees will become more independent and confident as they find that they can contribute to the scientific effort in a foreign country; 4) the skills trainees acquire will integrate them further into the scientific community and make it more likely that their views will be heard both by scientists and in their home communities. For 12 years, the UA BRAVO!/MIRT Program has worked to increase the number of underrepresented students who pursue careers in biomedical and behavioral research. Of the 79 MIRT trainees to date, 75% have continued on for postbaccalaureate degrees (40% to med school; 60% to grad school), 9% are working in research labs, 11% are undergraduates and 5% are involved in other activities (teaching, etc).

描述（由申请人提供）：H.G.威尔斯恰当地指出，人类历史越来越成为一场教育与灾难之间的竞赛。这在今天也许比以往任何时候都更加真实。科学正在以令人眼花缭乱的速度进步，但普通民众的科学素养率却在下降。消息灵通的公众可能是科学进步的重要组成部分，以防止恐惧阻碍新发现的道路。考虑到这个国家人口之间日益扩大的健康差距，推动科学发展并利用科学来改善人口和个人健康的需求就显得尤为紧迫。造成这些差异的因素有很多，包括获得医疗保健的机会、医疗保健的质量、环境污染物、遗传和生活方式的差异以及医疗保健提供者的态度。 该提案描述了一项计划，旨在让健康差异人群的学生做好准备，以解决国家和世界范围内的健康差异。该项目名为“海外生物医学研究：Vistas Open！” (BRAVO!/MHIRT) 使本科生、研究生和健康专业的学生能够在亚利桑那大学 (UA) 所做的研究基础上进行国外研究。学生项目涵盖广泛的学科，但都与生物医学或行为研究相关。该项目将使学生做好准备，以多种方式解决健康差异：1）学员将继续发展他们在 UA 进行研究时获得的批判性思维技能； 2）在外国文化中工作使学员能够审视自己的文化和刻板印象，从而看到他人的问题并以新的方式处理这些问题——这对于解决问题至关重要； 3）学员会变得更加独立和自信，因为他们发现自己可以为国外的科学事业做出贡献； 4) 学员获得的技能将使他们进一步融入科学界，并使他们的观点更有可能被科学家和他们的家乡社区听到。 12 年来，UA BRAVO!/MIRT 项目一直致力于增加从事生物医学和行为研究职业的弱势学生数量。迄今为止，在 79 名 MIRT 学员中，75% 继续攻读学士学位（40% 进入医学院；60% 进入研究生院），9% 在研究实验室工作，11% 是本科生，5% 参与其他活动（教学等）。