BUILD - South Texas

描述(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，用来测试教育干预措施的有效性和适宜性，以提高未被充分代表的人群，特别是西班牙裔学生在生物医学研究劳动力中的参与度。通过MBRS-RISE和RIMI等计划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，对于阻碍我们的学生走向成功的研究生涯的障碍，产生了有价值的见解。我们系目前的举措侧重于留住有前途的学生，我们发现，密集的指导、积极的学习、补充指导和结构化的真实研究经验是引导学生走向生物医学研究职业生涯的关键组成部分。在这些成功的基础上，长期目标是开发一个可扩展的、对文化敏感的、多方面的和协作的项目，不仅传授成功所需的技能和能力，而且建立自我效能和对生物医学研究人员职业生涯的目标承诺。为了实现这一目标，我们提出了以下三个具体目标：1.评估和利用现有资源，并建立伙伴关系，以持续和扩大UTB的努力，促进未被充分代表的本科生进入生物医学劳动力大军。2.确定使用教育数据、学生调查和其他评估工具更准确地确定哪些学生更有可能对拟议的教育干预措施作出反应并从中受益，并继续走上作为生物医学研究人员的成功之路的可行性。3.制定、实施和评估各种干预策略，以增加招收、留住人数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)为学生和家庭制定、实施和评估意识和外展计划，(B)制定技能和能力评估，以提供更个性化的暑期研究体验(C)为全面的指导计划奠定基础，以支持学生的目标和职业发展，并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协作、以问题为基础的学习和实践研究经验。这项建设规划建议将建立一个框架，以实施文化敏感和范式转换的教育和培训模式，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.