Short Term Training to Increase Diversity

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目建立在位于休斯顿德克萨斯州医学中心的贝勒医学院研究生院15个STT和23年SMART夏季本科研究计划的成功历史之上。其目的是激励和准备代表性不足的本科生继续他们的教育在生物医学。目标是：（1）每年向10名大学本科生介绍心、肺和血液研究，包括计算技术、成像、组织工程、敲除小鼠分析等尖端技术，目标是80%的人报告说，参加该计划鼓励他们在职业生涯中进行研究;（2）促进科学家更独立地发挥作用，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%的人能够报告在知识方面取得了巨大的进步;（4）帮助学生提高GRE考试的准备水平，在考试的口头和定量部分平均提高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）将学生放在生产性研究实验室，他们将成为研究团队的一部分，学习新技术，如cryoEM，双光子显微镜，MRI分析，组织工程和数据的计算分析通常在自己的校园里无法获得，并为研究工作做出贡献;（2）鼓励和监测学生的进步，使其按照进步评估表的评估更加独立地发挥作用;（3）提供研究讨论小组和研讨会，强调心脏，肺和血液研究，并参观几个实验室进行成像前沿水平的研究，心脏组织重建和计算分析;（4）提供SMART GRE预备研讨会和考试准备咨询;（5）通过各种机制，包括研究生院之夜、研究生院申请讲习班、医学博士/博士课程项目和个人职业咨询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要书面总结和演示的分析，来监测每个目标的进展情况。 公共卫生相关性：这个夏季研究计划将涉及代表性不足的本科生在贝勒医学院的心脏，循环，肺和血液研究前沿水平。学员将成为SMART计划的全面参与者，该计划提供教育活动，以激励学生为生物医学研究职业做好准备。

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.