BUILD - South Texas

描述（由申请人提供）：德克萨斯州南部的下格兰德河谷是一个天然的实验室，可以测试教育干预措施的有效性和适用性，以增加代表性不足的人群，特别是西班牙裔学生在生物医学研究工作中的参与。通过MBRS-RISE和RIMI等项目的传统干预策略在我们的学生群体中取得的成功有限。然而，对这些和其他项目的评估，对阻碍我们的学生走向成功的研究生涯的障碍产生了宝贵的见解。我们部门目前的举措都集中在留住有前途的学生，我们发现，强化辅导，积极学习，补充教学和结构化的真实研究经验是引导学生走向生物医学研究生涯的关键组成部分。基于这些成功，长期目标是开发一个可扩展的，文化敏感的，多方面的和协作的计划，不仅传授必要的技能和能力，以取得成功，但建立自我效能和目标承诺的职业生涯中的生物医学研究劳动力。为了实现这一目标，我们提出以下三个具体目标：1.评估和利用现有资源，建立合作伙伴关系，以维持和扩大UTB的努力，促进代表性不足的本科生进入生物医学劳动力。2.确定使用教育数据，学生调查和其他评估工具的可行性，以更准确地识别更有可能响应的学生，并从拟议的教育干预措施中受益，并继续走上作为生物医学研究人员蓬勃发展的道路。3.制定，实施和评估各种干预策略，从而增加招聘，保留和代表性不足的学生进入生物医学研究队伍的能力。作为战略的一部分，我们将（a）开发，实施和评估学生和家庭的意识和推广计划，（B）开发技能和能力的评估，以提供更个性化的夏季研究经验（c）建立一个全面的指导计划，以支持学生的目标和职业发展的基础，开发创新的研究培训和积极的学习空间，以促进学生与导师的合作，基于问题的学习和实践研究经验。该BUILD规划提案将建立一个框架，以实施一种文化敏感和范式转变的教育和培训模式，以增加NIH支持的生物医学劳动力的多样性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Lower Rio Grande Valley in south Texas is a natural laboratory to test the effectiveness and suitability of educational interventions to increae participation by underrepresented populations, particularly Hispanic students, in the biomedical research workforce. Traditional intervention strategies through programs such as MBRS-RISE and RIMI have limited success in our student population. Assessment of these and other programs, however, yielded valuable insights on the barriers that hinder our students from navigating towards a successful research career. Current initiatives in our department have focused on retaining promising students and we have found that intensive mentoring, active learning, supplemental instruction and structured authentic research experiences are critical components to steer students towards a biomedical research career. Based on these successes, the long-term goal is to develop a scalable, culturally sensitive, multifaceted and collaborative program that not only imparts necessary skills and competencies to succeed but builds self-efficacy and goal commitment to a career in the biomedical research workforce. In order to accomplish this goal we are proposing the following three specific aims: 1. to assess and leverage existing resources and build partnerships to sustain and expand UTB's efforts to promote underrepresented undergraduate students entering the biomedical workforce. 2. To determine the feasibility of using educational data, student surveys and other assessment instruments to identify more accurately students who are more likely to respond to, and benefit from the proposed educational interventions and continue on the path to thriving as biomedical researchers. 3. To develop, implement and assess various intervention strategies resulting in increased recruitment, retention, and competencies of underrepresented students to enter the biomedical research workforce. As part of the strategies we will (a) develop, implement and assess awareness and outreach program for student and families, (b) develop assessments of skills and competencies to provide for a more individualized summer research experience (c) establish the basis for a comprehensive mentoring program to support student goals and career development, and develop innovative research training and active learning space to foster student-mentor collaborations, problem-based learning and hands-on research experiences. This BUILD planning proposal will establish the framework to implement a culturally-sensitive and paradigm-shifting educational and training model to increase diversity in the NIH-supported biomedical workforce.