Enhancing Successful Post-Baccalaureate Intervention to Promote Research Careers

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的研究测试了假设的因素，以增加被生物医学博士培训所吸引的未被充分代表的少数民族（URM）大学毕业生“坚持到底”并发展独立研究事业的可能性。潜在的假设来自西奈山学士学位后研究教育计划（PREP）的初步结果数据。具体目标1假设：在研究生涯中取得成功至关重要的个人素质是通过参加高中和/或大学活动（如管弦乐队、舞蹈团或大学体育运动）培养的；我们的数据来源于体育运动。在拟议的工作中，更大的“运动员”群体将被招募到扩大的PREP中。我们将跟踪运动员和普通PREP学生群体进入博士和医学博士/博士课程的入学数据。对于每个队列中进入博士课程的所有PREP学者，我们将监测人员流失-完成数据以及：(i)一系列绩效指标；（ii）以保留研究生涯为目标。高绩效和持续的动力与未来独立研究事业的建立有关。我们进一步假设，参与高强度的、受到良好指导的长期研究项目能培养出与体育运动相似的品质，而多次、低强度和严格的经历则不会；将收集所有研究参与者的相关数据。具体目标#2假设：即使在特殊的大学课程之后，URM学生发展成为独立研究人员的人数令人失望的一个主要原因是差距或障碍仍然存在。如果在博士培训之前没有充分解决，如西奈山PREP所做的那样，这些差距和障碍将阻碍博士工作的高水平表现，从而支持从博士到独立研究职业的后续追求。迄今为止，进入西奈山博士课程的PREP学者的总保留率为92%，而同一时期进入西奈山博士课程的URM队列的总保留率为54%。我们将在博士项目中部署prep类型的干预措施，以评估这一差距是否会缩小。该研究解决了URM学生完成生物医学博士培训并继续建立独立研究事业的不足。这些研究测试了假设因素作为成功博士工作的预测因素/构建因素，并测试了成功的PREP干预措施对博士课程设置的适应性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed research tests factors hypothesized to increase the likelihood that an underrepresented minority (URM) college graduate, who is attracted to biomedical PhD training, will "go the distance" and develop an independent research career. The underlying hypotheses emerged from preliminary outcomes data from the Mount Sinai Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP). Specific Aim #1 hypothesis: individual qualities that are crucial to success in a research career are fostered by participation in high school and/or college activities such as orchestra or dance troupe or varsity athletics; our data derive from athletics. In the proposed work a larger "athlete" cohort will be recruited to an expanded PREP. We will track entry data of the athlete and student-at-large PREP cohorts into PhD and MD/PhD programs. For all PREP scholars from each cohort who enter doctoral programs, we will monitor attrition- completion data as well as: (i) a series of performance measures; (ii) retention of a research career as a goal. High performance and continued motivation are expected to correlate with future establishment of an independent research career. We further hypothesize that participation in long-term research projects of an intense, well-mentored nature build similar qualities to athletics whereas multiple, less intense and rigorous experiences do not; relevant data will be collected from all study participants. Specific Aim #2 hypothesis: a major reason for the disappointing numbers of URM students who develop into independent researchers, even after special college programs, is that gaps or impediments remain. If not adequately addressed before PhD training, as done by Mount Sinai PREP, these gaps and impediments preclude the high level of performance in PhD work that supports subsequent pursuit of the path from PhD to an independent research career. Aggregate retention-to-date of PREP scholars in the PhD programs entered is 92% while that of URM cohorts who entered Mount Sinai's PhD program during the same period is 54%. PREP-type interventions will be deployed in our PhD program to assess whether that gap narrows. The research addresses the paucity of URM students who complete biomedical PhD training and go on to establish independent research careers. The studies test hypothesized factors as predictors/builders of successful PhD work and test the adaptability of successful PREP interventions to a doctoral program setting.