NHLBI Research Opportunities for Minority Students

描述(由申请人提供)： 我们的计划为少数族裔本科生和医学院学生提供短期研究培训，为他们提供心血管、肺、血液和睡眠障碍研究方面的职业机会，并让他们接触到生物医学研究职业的兴奋、挑战和回报。我们的计划为优秀的研究人员提供导师式的研究培训，他们每年向20名有才华的学生指导这四个领域的研究计划。在这20名学生中，10名将是本科生，他们将在暑期度过2-3个月，10名将是医科学生，他们将连续3个月全日制，作为我们毕业时研究和奖学金要求的一部分。本科生将主要从我们的医学健康职业增强计划中挑选出来，这是一个为期6周的暑期计划，旨在鼓励学生从事医学职业。受训者是根据申请书挑选出来的，这些申请书经过竞争性审查，以衡量他们的研究提案的质量，顾问作为导师和榜样的实力，以及获得积极研究经验的潜力。我们的教师领导着出色的项目，涵盖了这四个主要领域的基础、翻译、临床和基于人群的研究，每一位教师顾问都有出色的培训记录，并对与学生合作有极大的兴趣。这一培训计划的主要目标是增加来自代表人数不足的少数族裔的学生人数，他们追求医学和科学方面的学术生涯，特别是在心血管、肺部、血液和睡眠障碍方面。这一目标将通过1)通过良好的、有指导的短期研究经验帮助未被充分代表的少数族裔学生认识到生物医学研究的兴奋、机会和挑战，为未来参与生物医学研究奠定基础；2)提供指导和学生与教师之间富有成效的思想交流；以及3)提供鼓励学生从事生物医学研究和医学教育的学术环境的范例。该项目还将提供丰富的活动，包括研究论坛、客座讲座、学生演讲、专题课程和社会活动。我们的评估体系使我们能够不断改进我们的培训计划，我们的数据库跟踪我们学员的职业生涯。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our program offers short-term research training to underrepresented minority undergraduate and medical school students to provide them with career opportunities in cardiovascular, pulmonary, hematologic, and sleep disorders research and to expose them to the excitement, challenges and rewards of a career in biomedical research. Our program provides mentored research training with outstanding investigators who direct research programs in these four areas to 20 talented students per year. Of these 20 students, 10 will be undergraduate students who spend 2-3 months during summers and 10 will be medical students who will spend 3 consecutive full-time months as part of our research and scholarship requirements for graduation. The undergraduates will be selected primarily from those in our Health Careers Enhancement Program for Medicine, a 6-week summer program designed to encourage students to pursue careers in medicine. Trainees are selected based on applications that are competitively reviewed for the quality of their research proposal, the strength of the advisor as a mentor and role model, and the potential for a positive research experience. Our faculty lead outstanding programs that encompass basic, translational, clinical, population based research in each of these four major areas, and each faculty advisor has an outstanding training record and a great interest in working with students. The primary objective of this training program is to increase the number of students from underrepresented minorities who pursue academic careers in medicine and science, particularly in cardiovascular, pulmonary, hematologic, and sleep disorders. This goal will be pursued by 1) helping underrepresented minority students become aware of the excitement, opportunities, and challenges of biomedical research through well structured, mentored, short-term research experiences that lay the foundation for future involvement in biomedical research; 2) providing mentoring and a productive exchange of ideas between students and faculty; and 3) providing examples of the scholarly environment that encourage students to pursue biomedical research and medical education. This program will also provide enrichment activities, including research forums, guest lectures, student presentations, special courses, and social activities. Our evaluation system allows us to continuously improve our training program, and our database tracks the careers of our trainees.