Short Term Training to Increase Diversity

短期培训以增加多样性

• 批准号: 8159406
• 负责人: Aladin M Boriek
• 金额: $ 6.95万
• 依托单位: BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-15 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8159406
• 关键词: Biomedical Research; Blood; Cardiac; Career Choice; Computational Technique; Computer Analysis; Counseling; Cryoelectron Microscopy; Data; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Educational Activities; Educational workshop; Faculty; Funding; Goals; Health; Heart; Image; Knockout Mice; Knowledge; Laboratories; Laboratory Research; Learning; Lung; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Medical center; Medicine; Mentors; Microscopy; Monitor; Museums; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Participant; Photons; Preparation; Recording of previous events; Reporting; Research; Schools; Science; Scientist; Students; Surveys; Techniques; Technology; Testing; Texas; Tissue Engineering; Training; Training Programs; Visit; Vocational Guidance; Writing; base; career; career development; college; frontier; improved; meetings; member; programs; tissue reconstruction

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project builds on a successful history of a 15 STT and 23 years of the SMART summer undergraduate research program in the Graduate School of Baylor College of Medicine located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston. The objective is to inspire and prepare under-represented undergraduates to continue their education in biomedicine. The goals are (1) to introduce 10 undergraduate UR participants/year to heart, lung and blood research, including cutting edge technologies in computational techniques, imaging, tissue engineering, knock-out mouse analysis with a goal that 80% will report that being in the program encouraged them to conduct research during their career; (2) to promote more independent functioning as scientists, so that 80% will meet all goals; 3) to expand and strengthen each participant's base of scientific knowledge, including cutting edge technologies, with a goal that 80% will report a large to enormous gain in knowledge; (4) to help students improve preparation for the GRE by increasing scores by an average of 100 points on the combined verbal and quantitative sections of the exam; (5) to provide personal career counseling to help students access the next step in their training. The plan for meeting our objectives include the following strategies: (1) Placing students in productive research laboratories where they will become a part of the research team, learn new techniques, like cryoEM, 2 photon microscopy, MRI analysis, tissue engineering and computational analysis of data typically not available on their own campuses and contribute to the research effort; (2) Encouraging and monitoring the students' progress toward more independent functioning as assessed on the progress assessment form; (3) Providing research discussion groups and seminars that emphasize heart, lung and blood research and visits to several labs conducting frontier level research in imaging, cardiac tissue reconstruction and computational analysis; (4) Providing access to the SMART GRE preparatory workshops and test-prep counseling; (5) Providing information and opportunities for students to gain better perspectives on career choices through a variety of mechanisms, including a Graduate School Night, graduate school application workshops, a session on MD/Ph.D. programs and personal career counseling Progress on each objective is monitored through a variety of surveys completed by students and their mentors and analysis of brief written summaries and presentations of participants' projects. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This summer research program will involve under-represented undergraduates to frontier level cardiac, circulatory, lung and blood research at Baylor College of Medicine. Trainees will be full participants in the SMART Program that offers arrange of educational activities to inspire and prepare students for biomedical research careers.

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目建立在位于休斯敦德克萨斯医学中心的贝勒医学院研究生院 15 年 STT 和 23 年 SMART 夏季本科研究项目的成功历史基础上。目的是激励和准备代表性不足的本科生继续接受生物医学教育。目标是 (1) 每年向 10 名本科生 UR 参与者介绍心脏、肺和血液研究，包括计算技术、成像、组织工程、基因敲除小鼠分析方面的尖端技术，目标是 80% 的人表示参与该计划鼓励他们在职业生涯中进行研究； (2) 促进科学家更加独立地发挥作用，使 80% 的人能够实现所有目标； 3) 扩大和加强每个参与者的科学知识基础，包括尖端技术，目标是 80% 的参与者报告在知识方面获得了巨大的收获； (4) 帮助学生提高 GRE 考试的准备能力，将考试的口语和数学部分的分数平均提高 100 分； (5)提供个人职业咨询，帮助学生进入下一步的培训。实现我们目标的计划包括以下策略：（1）将学生安置在富有成效的研究实验室中，他们将成为研究团队的一部分，学习新技术，如冷冻电镜、2光子显微镜、MRI分析、组织工程和通常在自己校园中无法获得的数据计算分析，并为研究工作做出贡献； (2) 鼓励和监督学生在进步评估表上评估的更加独立的功能方面的进步； （3）提供以心、肺和血液研究为重点的研究小组和研讨会，并参观多个在成像、心脏组织重建和计算分析方面进行前沿研究的实验室； (4) 提供参加 SMART GRE 准备研讨会和备考咨询的机会； （5）通过各种机制，包括研究生院之夜、研究生院申请研讨会、MD/Ph.D会议等，为学生提供信息和机会，让他们更好地了解职业选择。计划和个人职业咨询 每个目标的进展情况都通过学生及其导师完成的各种调查以及对参与者项目的简短书面总结和演示的分析进行监控。 公共卫生相关性：这个夏季研究计划将让代表性不足的本科生参与贝勒医学院的前沿水平心脏、循环、肺和血液研究。学员将成为 SMART 计划的正式参与者，该计划提供一系列教育活动，以激励学生并为他们的生物医学研究生涯做好准备。