Meharry Health Sciences Leadership Academy

实现2020年健康人的目标取决于一个有能力的，创造性的劳动力;基础，临床和转化科学的研究成果;增加公众对研究的理解，参与和支持;以及改善医疗保健的提供和利用。消除长期存在的健康差距需要有针对性的、文化上适当的干预措施和多样化的劳动力队伍。培养未来的卫生保健领导者和提高公众对健康和科学的理解都取决于国家学校在提高所有学生，包括少数民族和低收入学生的表现方面的成功。梅哈里医学院一直是弱势少数民族卫生专业人员的主要生产者，毕业于所有执业非裔美国医生和牙医的21%，以及生物医学科学的非裔美国博士的15%。Meharry健康科学领导学院将把Meharry的专业知识和资源与大都会纳什维尔公立学校（MNPS）合作，以增加少数民族和代表性不足的高中学生进入卫生专业，加强健康科学的中学教学，并提高对学校和周边社区健康和健康研究的理解。具体目标旨在解决进入（目标1）和通过（目标2-4）正在4所MNPS高中实施的新的健康科学职业学院课程的问题。具体目标1：为9年级学生创建一个“健康人挑战”活动，向他们介绍一个案例研究，其中包括基础科学、临床、转化和卫生政策领域的元素。学生将合作开发创新的建议，以解决案件提出的问题，同时探索广泛的健康事业。具体目标二：为健康科学职业学院教学团队设计并实施夏季研讨会（英语，数学，科学和健康科学教师），这将增加他们对特定疾病，生物医学研究，健康事业和卫生政策的理解，强调研究和教学团队的跨学科和合作方面，并协助教师开发创新内容，以提高学生的学习动机和能力;具体目标3：开发协作社区健康意识和筛查活动，使健康职业学生能够与Meharry医学生和执业医生一起展示他们的能力，同时为学生提供4）自上而下：探索健康职业的媒体工作坊将在夏季将健康科学和媒体专业的学生带到Meharry校区，在媒体教师的指导下进行为期三周的学习，制作音频和视频材料，以支持其他三个项目。这些将包括个人在各种卫生专业的配置文件，具有Meharry的多样化的劳动力的经验。 公共卫生相关性（由申请人提供）：Meharry健康职业领导学院是与大都会纳什维尔公立学校合作成立的，以加强中学健康科学职业计划，增加学生的数量和多样性进展到中学后培训，并提高对研究在满足医疗保健挑战中的作用的认识和理解。九年级的学生将测试他们的聪明才智，为真实的世界卫生问题制定解决方案，而10 - 12年级的学生将获得信心和经验，与Meharry医生，牙医，研究人员和学生一起工作，在自己的社区提供健康教育和筛查。来自健康职业学院的教学团队将与Meharry教师合作制定战略，以更好地整合跨学科课程，满足代表性不足的少数民族的教育需求，并纳入最新的健康研究和实践信息。辅助材料，包括在梅哈里医学院的多元化劳动力的视频简介，将由学生和教师在年度媒体研讨会开发。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Achieving Healthy People 2020 goals depends on a competent, creative workforce; research achievements in basic, clinical and translational science; increased understanding, participation, and support of research by the general public; and improved delivery and utilization of health care. Eliminating persistent health disparities requires targeted, culturally appropriate interventions and a diverse workforce. Preparing tomorrow's health care leaders and increasing understanding of health and science by the public both depend on the success of the nation's schools in improving the performance of all students, including minority and low-income students. Meharry Medical College has been a leading producer of disadvantaged minority health professionals, graduating 21% of all practicing African American physicians and dentists as well as 15% of the African American Ph.D.s in the biomedical sciences. The Meharry Health Sciences Leadership Academy will bring the expertise and resources of Meharry into partnership with the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) to increase the entry of minority and underrepresented high school students into health professions, strengthen secondary school teaching of health sciences, and enhance the understanding of health and health research in the schools and surrounding community. The specific aims are designed to address entry into (Aim 1) and progression through (Aims 2-4) the new Health Sciences Career Academy curriculum being implemented in 4 MNPS high schools. Specific Aim 1: Create a "Healthy People Challenge" event for 9th grade students that will present them with a case study that encompasses elements across the basic science, clinical, translational and health policy spectrum. Students will collaborate to develop innovative proposals to address issues raised by the case while exploring a broad range of health careers. Specific Aim 2: Design and implement a Summer Workshop for Health Sciences Career Academy Teaching Teams (English, Math, Science, and Health Sciences teachers) that will increase their understanding of specific diseases, biomedical research, health careers, and health policy, emphasize the interdisciplinary and cooperative aspects of both research and the teaching teams, and assist the teachers in developing innovative content to increase motivation and competency of their students; Specific Aim 3: Develop collaborative Community Health Awareness and Screening Events that will allow health career students to demonstrate their competencies alongside Meharry medical students and practicing physicians while providing the students' communities with health screenings, health education, and information on health research; 4) Top-to-Bottom: Media Workshop exploring health occupations will bring health sciences and media students to the Meharry campus for three weeks in the summer under the direction of a media teacher to create audio and video materials to support the other three projects. These will include profiles of individuals in a variety of health professions, featuring the experiences of Meharry's diverse workforce. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (provided by applicant): The Meharry Health Careers Leadership Academy was formed in partnership with the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools to enhance the secondary school Health Sciences Career program, to increase the number and diversity of students progressing to post-secondary training, and to raise awareness and understanding of the role of research in meeting health care challenges. Ninth grade students will test their ingenuity in developing solutions for real world health problems while 10th -12th grade students will gain confidence and experience working alongside Meharry physicians, dentists, researchers and students to provide health education and screening in their own communities. Teaching teams from the Health Career Academies will work with Meharry faculty on strategies to better integrate lessons across disciplines, meet the educational needs of underrepresented minorities, and incorporate the most up-to-date health research and practice information. Supporting materials, including video profiles of the diverse workforce at Meharry Medical College, will be developed by students and teachers in an annual media workshop.