PathOlogical Life Sciences Training Program for Students and Families

堪萨斯大学医学中心（KUMC），通过文化促进办公室 和多样性，将利用我们20年的成功历史，建立强大的合作伙伴关系， 在K-20学生，教师，家庭，社区和我们的学术健康中心之间， 开发和实施一个五阶段的第一和第二阶段的调查为基础的多式联运，项目。拟议 一个项目，堪萨斯病理生命科学培训计划，将创建项目和活动 这将提高地区高中学生对临床研究和生命科学的知识; 提高我们社区的生命科学和健康素养;提高社区意识 临床研究和有关临床试验过程的知识，以提高 代表性不足的社区参与。第一阶段有五个主要组成部分。第一、 我们将从我们的合作伙伴高中招收4名第10 - 12堪萨斯城堪萨斯（KCK）学生， 病理生物医学图书馆实习生。这些学生将协助确定 科学/循证文献，有关NIH支持的临床研究的信息， 临床试验和健康差异，用于我们的课程。第二，我们将发展和 实施营病理学，一个创新的5周的调查为基础的生物医学科学夏季 该计划为24个代表性不足的少数民族（URM），或服务不足的学生在11 - 12年级。 我们将应用基于问题的学习，标准化的病人，和电子健康记录， 教授疾病的病理基础以及这些知识如何告知患者诊断， 管理和预测，参观综合临床研究中心（GCRC），并开发 针对我们患者的临床试验或 问题.教师将包括KCK USD 500硕士 教师，KCK社区学院（KCKCC）和KUMC教师。第三，KUMC和KCKCC 教师将开发和实施针对学生、教师和家庭的系列研讨会 这将增加生命科学素养，有关临床试验的知识，并深入了解 URM参与临床试验。第四，我们将聘请25名高中生， 多媒体节目，使用技术，如流视频，DVD和有线广播。 第五，我们将让10名11 - 12年级的学生与我们的GCRC合作， 翻译研究该项目建立在我们致力于提高认识的基础上， URM对科学和卫生专业的兴趣、准备和最终参与 careers.在第二阶段，我们将把我们的计划传播到大堪萨斯城地区， 在全国范围内利用学生参与、多媒体材料、网络技术和 图书馆系统生物医学，学区和国家。疾病负担的不平等或差异仍然是一个顽固的和日益增长的公众 美国的健康问题。增加对可靠的信息和通信技术的了解和获取 关于生命科学和最新治疗的信息，沿着 许多科学家和医生来自那些经历过这些的人， 疾病的差异将大大纠正这个问题。本项目的总体目标 是发展项目和活动，增加对生命的了解和接触生命的机会， 为堪萨斯城的学生和社区提供科学和临床试验信息。

The Kansas University Medical Center (KUMC), through the Office of Cultural Enhancement and Diversity, will leverage our 20 year history of success in establishing robust partnerships between K-20 students, teachers, families, communities, and our academic health center to develop and implement a five- Phase I and II inquiry based multimodal, project. The proposed project, Kansas PathOogical Life Sciences Training Program, will create programs and activities that will improve area high school students knowledge about clinical research and life sciences; improve life science and health literacy in our communities; and increase community awareness of clinical research and knowledge about the clinical trial process in order to improve underrepresented communities participation. There are five main components to Phase I. First, we will engage 4 10th-12th Kansas City Kansas (KCK) students from our partner high schools as PathOlogical Biomedical Library Interns. These students will assist in identifying science/evidence-based literature, information about NIH supported clinical research and clinical trials and health disparities, for use in our curriculum. Second, we will develop and implement Camp PathOlogical, an innovative 5-week inquiry-based biomedical science summer program for 24 underrepresented minority (URM), or underserved students in 11th-12th grades. We will apply problem based learning, standardized patients, and electronic health records to teach the pathologic basis of disease and how this knowledge informs patient diagnosis, management and prediction, tour the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) and develop clinical trials specific to our patient or problem. Faculty will include KCK USD500 master teachers, KCK Community College (KCKCC) and KUMC faculty. Third, KUMC and KCKCC faculty will develop and implement a seminar series targeting students, teachers and families that will increase life science literacy, knowledge about clinical trials and insight into barriers for URM participation in clinical trials. Fourth, we will engage 25 high school students to develop multimedia programs using technology such as streaming video, DVD and cable broadcast. Fifth, we will engage 10 11th-12th grade students in partnership with our GCRC in clinical and translational research. This project builds on our committed efforts to increase awareness, interest, preparedness, and ultimately participation of URM in science and health professions careers. In Phase II we will disseminate our programs to the Greater Kansas City area and nationally using student participation, multimedia materials, web-based technologies and the Library systemsBiomedical, School Districts and State. Inequality or differences in the burden of disease remains a stubborn and growing public health problem for the United States. Increased knowledge of and access to reliable information about life sciences and the newest treatments, along with increasing the number of scientists and doctors who come from the people who experience these differences in disease will go far to correct this problem. The overall goal of this project is to develop programs and activities that will increase knowledge of and access to life sciences and clinical trial information for students and communities in Kansas City.