Mechanisms for Enhancing Scholarly Achievements (MESA)

描述（由申请人提供）：摘要本随机、对照、前瞻性队列-纵向研究的目的是增加对促进学术健康科学中心研究生从临床研究项目（医学、护理、牙科、联合健康和公共卫生）转变为计划追求临床研究科学家职业的机制的理解。为建立跨学科研究团队而设计的一系列综合干预措施的初步测试框架有一个认知学习理论假设基础，该框架规定了个人和组织内部的资源，这些资源使进入团队科学学习框架时面临学习焦虑和不确定性，但仍有可能达到预期的学术成就目标。理论指导的干预策略包括以下要素：“动机、方向和力量干预以促进个人研究职业目标的发展；”将学生参与与跨学科研究团队联系起来的教师和社区导师池；”支持建立研究团队，促进合作和良性竞争；”个人能力建设基本认知技能（解决问题、认知重构、延迟满足和与研究自我效能相关的自我信念）；参加为期五个学期的旨在促进/恢复弱势群体健康的团队研究项目；"一个学者的系列研讨会（跨越五个学期）侧重于基本的研究内容和熟练程度。5个目标和10个相互关联的假设对学习过程的结果和模型进行了测试，该过程从激励者方向和力量开始，以学术活动和职业道路计划结束。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Mechanisms for Enhancing Scholarly Achievements (MESA) Abstract The purpose of this randomized, controlled prospective-cohort-longitudinal study is to increase understanding of the mechanisms that contribute to the transition of a diverse group of Academic Health Science Center graduate students who are enrolled in clinical programs of study (medicine, nursing, dentistry, allied health, and public health) into planned pursuit of a clinical research scientist career. The framework for this initial test of an integrated series of interventions designed to build interdisciplinary research teams has a cognitive learning theory assumptive base specifying intra-person and organization resources that make it possible to reach desired scholarly achievement goals despite exposure to learning anxiety and uncertainty that accompanies entry into a team science learning frame. The theory informed intervention strategies incorporate the following elements: " Motivation direction and strength interventions to foster the development of personal research career goals; " Faculty and community mentor pool that link student participation with an interdisciplinary research team; " Research team building support to promote collaboration and healthy competition; " Individual capacity building essential cognitive skills (problem solving, cognitive reframing, delay in gratification and belief in self relative to research self-efficacy); " Participation across five semesters in team-based research projects directed toward health promotion/restoration for persons from vulnerable populations; " A scholars' seminar series (across five semesters) focused on essential research content and proficiencies. Five aims and 10 linked hypotheses address a test of outcomes and modeling of the proposed learning process that begins with Motivator Direction and Strength and ends with Scholarly Activity and Career Path plan. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Little is known about the factors that influence the pursuit of a research career by minority persons. The proposed study will add to what is known about key elements, the mechanisms, which promote the achievement of successful research careers of minority persons who are returning for a graduate degree in medicine, nursing, dentistry, allied health and public health. The potential impact of having evidence supported interventions that demonstrate the ability to increase the number of minority clinical researchers is the potential to more quickly and efficiently to produce a research workforce that better addresses the health needs of vulnerable populations.