Case Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP)

案例 学士后研究教育计划 (PREP)

• 批准号: 7595802
• 负责人: ALISON K HALL
• 金额: $ 25.54万
• 依托单位: CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-08-01 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7595802
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A major challenge for the scientific community is to increase the participation of underrepresented minority students in biomedical research and subsequent leadership in the professoriate. For example, less than 10% of students in Case SOM biomedical PhD programs come from underrepresented minorities (URMs), and 2% of our full time faculty are URM. To address this need, this proposal is designed to prepare underrepresented minority students who hold a recent baccalaureate degree with additional research training, coursework and student development to successfully transition into biomedical doctoral programs. This proposal requests funds to support 12 students per year (six in the first year) to engage in research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology and microbiology, neuroscience, nutrition, pathology, pharmacology or physiology and biophysics. The program will coordinate the expertise of the faculty in an integrated postgraduate training program. Participating faculty mentors all have active and well-funded research programs that contribute to a lively and stimulating scientific environment. In addition to one-two years laboratory experience, students will complete academic coursework to augment their quantitative and biomedical foundation and acquire professional presentation skills. Further, students will have direct tutoring in standardized test preparation and assistance in the preparation of graduate school applications. The participating mentors are located at Case School of Medicine and already interact in the training of graduate students throughout our interdisciplinary PhD programs. The Institution has demonstrated continued success in attracting underrepresented minority students into our medical programs, and will focus that experience now in increasing minority matriculation into graduate programs. Students will be recruited from a national pool of applicants using comprehensive recruitment strategies. Each aim is associated with measurable outcomes that assay science interest, matriculation into graduate and other programs, changes in standardized tests as well as information about program efficacy. This combination of interventions is designed to convey the excitement and culture of scientific research along with the academic and programmatic preparation to students and prepare them to transition to graduate school and a biomedical research career.

描述（由申请人提供）：科学界面临的一个主要挑战是增加代表性不足的少数民族学生在生物医学研究和随后的领导在教授的参与。例如，在案例SOM生物医学博士课程的学生不到10%来自代表性不足的少数民族（URM），我们的全职教师的2%是URM。为了满足这一需求，该提案旨在准备代表性不足的少数民族学生谁持有最近的学士学位与额外的研究培训，课程和学生发展，成功地过渡到生物医学博士课程。 该提案要求提供资金，每年资助12名学生（第一年6名）从事生物化学、遗传学、分子生物学和微生物学、神经科学、营养学、病理学、药理学或生理学和生物物理学方面的研究。该计划将协调教师在综合研究生培训计划的专业知识。参与的教师导师都有积极和资金充足的研究计划，有助于一个生动和刺激的科学环境。除了一到两年的实验室经验，学生将完成学术课程，以增强他们的定量和生物医学基础，并获得专业的演讲技巧。此外，学生将在标准化考试准备和援助的研究生院申请的准备直接辅导。参与的导师位于凯斯医学院，并已在整个我们的跨学科博士课程的研究生培训互动。该机构已经证明了在吸引少数民族学生进入我们的医学课程持续成功，并将集中在增加少数民族预科进入研究生课程现在的经验。学生将使用全面的招聘策略从申请人的国家人才库中招聘。每个目标都与可测量的结果相关联，这些结果分析了科学兴趣，研究生和其他课程的入学，标准化考试的变化以及有关课程功效的信息。这种干预措施的组合旨在传达科学研究的兴奋和文化，沿着学术和计划准备学生，并准备他们过渡到研究生院和生物医学研究生涯。