Minority Initiative for Students and Teachers (MIST)-Ph*

背景：少数民族在医学教育、实践和研究中的代表性不足仍然是一个严重的问题 全国范围内。尽管美国学生总体上在科学和数学方面的表现比美国学生差 在许多其他国家，黑人和西班牙裔儿童的平均科学水平远远低于美国儿童 白人孩子。随着美国人口结构的变化，必须为贫困和少数族裔儿童提供 有更好的机会获得优秀的科学、研究和数学背景。设计：这是一个为期五年的教育项目 程序。拟议的计划将支持一项新的课程设计，该课程将利用影响 让少数族裔学生对研究和健康事业感兴趣并向他们传授知识。拨款的每一年 将有一个对这个国家的医疗保健很重要的临床重点：肥胖、癌症预防、哮喘、 高血压和冠心病。每年秋天，课程委员会将在一年后制定课程 对上一年课程进行全面的需求评估和评价。目标将是教授解剖学， 病理生理学、流行病学、遗传学、行为学、药理学和使用这些疾病模型的研究应用 以获得并保持学生的兴趣。此外，还将有针对初中和高中的课程设置 教师和家长在美国儿童的教育未来中扮演着非常重要的角色。具体目标： (1)为城市少数民族学生(和其他有经济困难的学生)实施适龄计划 证明的需要)，在8-12年级，加强：卫生科学、研究和 数学；学术和职场成功所必需的领域独立能力；以及高等 要求批判性思维和解决问题，(2)促进对生物科学事业的认识和兴趣， 来自大纽瓦克地区的8年级和12年级学生的研究和健康专业，(3)扩大规模，用于大学预科 科学教师，与健康有关的知识基础，基于绩效的评估的实践，以及 创新教学模式，(4)加强家长对子女教育的参与 讲授有助于孩子进步的技能的研讨会/讲习班，以及(5)评估 该计划通过使用各种评估策略来实现其目标。Settimzs：UMD-新泽西医疗 学校和新泽西州纽瓦克的圣詹姆斯预备学校。参赛者：125名学生将成为 在该计划的第一年招募。初中和高中教师将在一年至五年内招聘 四个节目。参与该计划的儿童的父母和/或法定监护人。

Context: Minority under-representation in medical education, practice, and research remains a significant problem nationwide. Even though American students in general perform more poorly in science and math than do students of many other countries, the average science proficiency among black and Hispanic children is far below that of American white children. With American's changing demographics, poor and minority children must be provided with access and better opportunities to acquire strong science, research, and math backgrounds. Design: This is a five year educational program. The proposed program will support a new curriculum design that will utilize major clinical diseases affecting minority populations to interest and teach minority students about research and health careers. Each year of the grant will have one clinical focus that is important to the health care of this country: obesity, cancer prevention, asthma, hypertension, and coronary heart disease. Each fall the Curriculum Committee will develop the curriculum after a comprehensive needs assessment and evaluation of the previous year curriculum. The goal will be to teach anatomy, pathophysiology, epidemiology, genetics, behavior, pharmacology and research applications using these disease models to gain and hold the student's interest. Additionally, there will be programmatic offerings for middle and high school teachers and parents as they play a very significant role in the educational future of American children. Specific Aims: (1) To implement age-appropriate programs for urban underrepresented minority students (and other students with a demonstrated need) in grades 8-12 that strengthens: Domain-specific knowledge in health science, research and mathematics; domain-independent competencies necessary for academic and workplace success; and skills in higher order critical thinking and problem solving, (2) To promote awareness of and interest in careers in biological science, research and health professions among 8thand 12thgraders from the greater Newark area, (3) To expand, for pre-college science teachers, the base of health-related knowledge, the practice of performance-based assessments, and the use of innovated teaching modalities, (4) To enhance parent's and involvement in their children's education by offering seminars/workshops that teach skills that will support their child's progress, and (5) To evaluate the effectiveness of the program in reaching its objectives by using a variety of assessment strategies. Settimzs: UMD-New Jersey Medical School and St. James Preparatory School in Newark, NJ. Particioants: One hundred twenty five students will be recruited during the first year of the program. Middle and high school teachers will be recruited in years one through four of the program. Parents and/or legal guardians of the children who participate in the program.