Short-Term Internship Program for Undergraduates and Health Professional Students

描述（由申请人提供）：科罗拉多丹佛大学有一个成功的本科（UG）学生多样性研究短期实习计划。它更好地称为GEMS（多元文化学生的毕业生体验），它将来自不同和弱势背景的UG学生与实验室导师配对。在过去的10年里，101名大学生参加了：27人仍然是大学生（85%将申请专业学校）; 74人已经毕业，49人在一些卫生专业学校或拥有卫生专业学位，成功率为66%。临床转化科学奖（CTSA）启动了科罗拉多临床转化科学研究所（CCTSI），以建立教育资源/增强转化研究的基础设施。CCTSI将与GEMS计划合作。在这个新的R25中，我们要求资金继续（并取代）10岁的NHLBI资助的T35 GEMS，并为10名UG和2名健康专业学生提供经验。我们提出了几个目标：1。暴露学生的研究事业沉浸在实验室与基础或医生的科学家;让学生掌握定量和分析技能; 3.通过参与涵盖多个主题的棕色袋子来提高学生对科学的理解; 4.通过研究研讨会让学生接触科学主题; 5.通过在诊所跟踪医生科学家，提高对临床/转化研究的认识; 6.与CCTSI合作创建一个网站来跟踪学生。有了这个奖项，我们将继续激励来自不同背景的学生追求与健康相关的职业。 公共卫生相关性：这个实习计划在科罗拉多丹佛大学，安舒茨医学院，旨在暴露本科生和健康专业的学生从不同的和弱势背景的夏季实验室或临床转化研究经验，以增加他们在相关的心血管，肺或血液领域的研究代表。其目标是建立一支与健康相关的研究人员队伍，他们与他们所服务的社区一样多样化。通过让这些学生在职业生涯的早期接触，我们希望抓住他们的兴趣，激发他们对生物医学研究的可能性。 (End摘要）

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): University of Colorado Denver has a successful undergraduate (UG) student diversity research short-term internship program. Better known as GEMS (Graduate Experiences for Multicultural Students), it pairs UG students from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds with lab mentors. Over the past 10 years, 101 UG students participated: 27 are still UG (85% will apply to professional schools); 74 have graduated, 49 are in some health professional school or have a health-professional degree for a success rate of 66%. The Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) launched the Colorado Clinical Translational Science Institute (CCTSI) to build infrastructure for educational resources/enhancement of translational research. The CCTSI will partner with the GEMS program. In this new R25 we request funds to continue (and replace) the 10 year-old NHLBI-funded T35 GEMS and provide experiences to 10 UG and 2 health professional students. We propose several aims: 1.expose students to research careers by immersion in laboratories with basic or physician scientists; 2. expose students to quantitative and analytical skills; 3. improve student comprehension of science by participation in brown bags covering several topics; 4. expose students to science topics through research seminars; 5. increase awareness of clinical/translational research by shadowing physician scientists at the clinic; 6. create a website in partnership with the CCTSI to track students. With this award, we will continue to stimulate students from diverse backgrounds to pursue health-related careers. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This internship program at the University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, seeks to expose undergraduate and health professional students from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds to summer laboratory or clinical translational research experiences in order to increase their representation in research related to cardiovascular, pulmonary or hematologic areas. The goal is to create a workforce of health-related researchers who are as diverse as the community they serve. By exposing these students early in their careers, we hope to capture their interest and excite them about the possibilities of biomedical research. (End of Abstract)