Hunter College COR Program

描述(由申请者提供)：亨特学院建议继续我们的传统，培训来自代表人数不足的人群的学生在不同领域的心理健康相关研究。我们计划扩大我们已有24年历史的项目的目标和成功，该项目培养出了杰出的COR学者，其中约26人获得了博士学位，2人获得了博士学位，24人获得了硕士学位，目前有40多人注册了博士学位。自1981年以来，55-60%的Hunter COR学生进入了美国一些最好的大学的研究生课程。值得注意的是，自从我们上一次竞争申请是在1999年，我们的毕业生100%申请了研究生院，90%的人注册了心理健康相关领域的博士课程。我们项目的目标是结合不同研究方面的培训，包括实验设计能力的发展、数据获取、统计数据处理以及原始研究的书面和口头陈述。这些目标是通过为COR学者开发的课程、在Hunter内部和其他邻近机构的研究安置、纽约市以外的夏季研究安排、每周一次的研讨会，将受邀演讲者的演讲与各种技术(包括统计分析、写作技能和计算)的强化培训相结合，以及一个单独的科学写作课程来实现的。这些活动将继续、扩大和改进。在这一资助期间，建议开展4项发展活动：(1)制定一项干预计划，以增加研究生课程的留存率；(2)将COR学生的数量从9人增加到10人；(3)制定一项新计划，以获得以前学生对我们计划的评价；以及(4)进一步更新我们以前的COR实习生数据库。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Hunter College proposes to continue our tradition of training students from underrepresented populations in different areas of mental health-related research. We propose to expand the objectives and success of our 24- year-old program, which has produced outstanding COR scholars, approximately 26 of whom went on to obtain their PhD, 2 earned MDs, 24 MA, and over 40 are currently registered in Ph.D. Since 1981, 55 60% of Hunter COR students have been enrolled in graduate programs at some of the best universities in the country. Notably, since our last competitive application in 1999, 100% of our graduating students have applied to graduate school, and 90% have enrolled in a PhD program in a mental health-related area. The goals of our program are to incorporate training in different aspects of research including the development of competence in experimental design, data acquisition, statistical data processing, and written and oral presentation of original research. These objectives are accomplished through a course developed for the COR scholars, research placement both within Hunter and at other neighbor institutions, summer research placements outside of New York City, a weekly seminar combining talks by invited speakers with intensive training in a variety of techniques (including statistical analysis, writing skills, and computations), and a separate scientific writing course. These activities will be continued, expanded, and improved. During this funding period, 4 developmental activities are proposed: (1) to develop an intervention initiative to increase the retention of students in graduate programs; (2) to increase the number of COR students from 9 to 10; (3) to develop a new initiative to obtain evaluation of our program by former students; and (4) to further update our database of former COR trainees.