Institutional Research and Academic Career Development

研究和科学教学奖学金（第一）计划是在两个研究财团- 密集的机构，埃默里大学和莫尔豪斯医学院（MSM），以及三个 亚特兰大大学中心（AUC），莫尔豪斯学院，斯佩尔曼的少数民族服务教学机构 克拉克亚特兰大大学Clark Atlanta University该计划已被证明是成功的招聘，保留，研究 出版物和安置该计划的毕业生。我们增加了代表性不足的人数， 少数民族进入生物医学研究的职业生涯。FIRST计划提供跨学科的生物医学 在NIGMS支持的领域进行研究培训，由具有专业知识的教师提供基础 这对优秀的博士后研究培训至关重要。目前的研究导师是20名成员 生物和临床科学部门的研究在研究金的三年里， 研究博士后的经验是补充和整合与教学计划，移动 从如何教学课程，到同伴教学，再到精心开发的指导教学经验， AUC的教授，最终在研究员在课程中发挥领导作用。许多研究 措施，包括出版物和就业安置的数量和质量，第一个研究员和第一个“ 该计划成功地提供了高质量的研究经验。同样，许多评价性教学 措施，包括将创新方法和课程纳入AUC课程，并鼓励下一个 一代少数民族科学家，第一研究员和第一计划是成功的教学 努力这一成功的一部分可能是由于不太传统的好处，如创建一个 博士后研究员和校友在实验室内外互动的凝聚力核心， 联盟的研究和教学机构在研究和教育方面的合作 项目，以及少数民族科学家在埃默里大学的总体代表性激增。在密集的帮助下， 形成性和总结性评价以及强大的合作努力，FIRST已经适应了许多 任何这样的多机构计划面临的挑战，我们在此建议继续该计划和所有 它的成功。

The Fellowships in Research and Science Teaching (FIRST) program is in a consortium of two research- intensive institutions, Emory University and the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), and the three minority-serving teaching institutions of the Atlanta University Center (AUC), Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Clark Atlanta University. The program has proven successful in recruitment, retention, research publications and placement of graduates of the program. We have increased the number of underrepresented minorities entering careers in biomedical research. The FIRST program provides interdisciplinary biomedical research training in the areas supported by NIGMS by a faculty with the expertise to provide the foundation critical for outstanding postdoctoral research training. The current research mentors are members of 20 biological and clinical science departments at Emory and MSM. Over the three years of the fellowship, the research post-doctoral experience is complemented and integrated with a teaching program which moves from a How to Teach course, to peer teaching, to a carefully developed mentored teaching experience with a professor at the AUC which culminates in the fellows taking leadership roles in a course. By many research measures, including number and quality ofpublications and job placement, FIRST fellows and theFIRST ' program are succeeding in providing a quality research experience. Similarly, by many evaluative teaching measures, including integrating innovative methods and courses into the AUC curricula and inspiring the next generation of minority scientists, FIRST fellows and the FIRST program are successful in teaching endeavors. Some of this success may be due to less-traditionally-noted benefits, such as the creation of a cohesive core of post-doctoral fellows and alumni that interact in and out of the laboratory, resulting collaboration between the research and teaching institutions of the consortium in research and education projects, and the surge in overall representation of minority scientists at Emory. With the aid of intensive formative and summative evaluation and strong collaborative efforts, FIRST has adapted to many of the challenges any such multi-institutional program faces, and we propose herein to continue the program and all of its successes.