CUMC Community-Oriented Primary Care Research Endowment

简介（由申请人提供）：克莱顿大学是一所综合性大学，位于内布拉斯加州奥马哈市。2003年，克赖顿大学医学院被美国卫生和人类服务部、卫生资源和服务管理局指定为卓越中心。COE计划的长期目标是弥合地方和国家在医疗保健和医疗保健服务方面的差距。Creighton在扩大现有的COE规划的基础上，提议利用NCMHD捐赠基金建立面向社区的初级保健（COPC）公共卫生研究基金，以建立能力，在服务不足的社区培训面向社区的初级保健公共卫生研究的学生。重点领域1：增加学生参与COPC公共卫生研究，特别强调解决内布拉斯加州和爱荷华州医疗服务不足人口之间的健康差距。目标1-1：建立一个捐赠的夏季研究项目，以支持临床前医学院学生获得COPC公共卫生研究助理奖学金。目标1-2：建立一个捐赠的社区研究选修课，以支持四年级医学生纵向COPC公共卫生研究经验。重点领域2：加强和扩大指导和辅导服务，鼓励健康差距学生从事COPC公共卫生研究。目标2-1：将现有的公共基础项目正式化，并将其建立为一个捐赠的学生/教师论坛，以“共享调查”的形式讨论健康差异研究。目标2-2：建立资助项目培养医学生导师。重点领域3：增加对参与健康差异研究感兴趣的健康差异学生的医学院入学率。目标3-1：建立一项捐赠奖学金，以促进招募对开展健康差异研究感兴趣的高素质健康差异学生。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Creighton University is a comprehensive university located in Omaha, Nebraska. The Creighton University School of Medicine was designated a Center of Excellence (COE) by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration in 2003. The long-term goals of the COE program address bridging the gap in local and national disparities in healthcare and healthcare delivery. Expanding on existing COE programming, Creighton proposes to use NCMHD Endowment funds to establish a Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) Public Health Research Endowment to build capacity to train students in COPC public health research in underserved communities. The proposed program has the following areas of emphasis and objectives: Area of Emphasis 1: Increase student involvement in COPC public health research, with particular emphasis on addressing health disparities among medically underserved populations in Nebraska and Iowa. Objective 1-1: Establish an endowed summer research program to support preclinical medical students in a COPC public health research assistantship. Objective 1-2: Establish an endowed community research elective to support fourth-year medical students in a longitudinal COPC public health research experience. Area of Emphasis 2: Strengthen and expand mentoring and tutoring services to encourage health disparity students to pursue COPC public health research. Objective 2-1: Formalize the existing Common Grounds program and establish it as an endowed student/faculty forum for discussing health disparities research in a "shared inquiry" format. Objective 2-2: Establish an endowed program for training medical student tutors. Area of Emphasis 3: Increase medical school enrollment of health disparity students interested in participating in health disparity research. Objective 3-1: Develop an endowed scholarship that will facilitate recruitment of highly qualified health disparity students interested in conducting health disparity research. The objectives of the COPC Public Health Research Endowment program support the Creighton University School of Medicine's mission to improve the human condition through excellence in educating students and the School's vision to be a school that is distinguished for preparing graduates who demonstrate extraordinary compassion and commitment to the service of others.