Kids Seek Cure for Kids

孩子们为孩子们寻求治疗

• 批准号: 8446313
• 负责人: EMIL BOGENMANN
• 金额: $ 17万
• 依托单位: CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-06-01 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8446313
• 关键词: Address; American; Americas; Area; Asians; Belief; Biomedical Research; Career Choice; Child; Communities; Diabetes Mellitus; Digestive System Disorders; Disadvantaged; Disease; Educational Status; Educational process of instructing; Engineering; Evaluation; Feedback; Foundations; Goals; Hispanics; Individual; Institutes; Intervention; Investments; Kidney Diseases; Knowledge; Laboratory Research; Learning; Link; Medical; Medicine; Mentors; Methods; Minority; Mission; National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; Occupations; Oral; Outcome; Performance; Persons; Play; Program Effectiveness; Qualifying; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Methodology; Research Training; Resources; Role; Schools; Science; Self Efficacy; Students; System; Technology; Testing; United States National Institutes of Health; Vision; Writing; Youth; career; career development; college; experience; graduate student; high school; improved; innovation; interest; programs; socioeconomics; success; undergraduate student; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The biomedical research workforce of America has become dangerously dependent on the import of foreign workers, and the continued globalization of world economies will only increase competition for these workers. Thus, our nation urgently needs to invest in its own youth if the U.S. wants to remain the world leader in technology, science, engineering and math (STEM). The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plays an important role in this investment. By 2025, more than 50% of all American high school students will be the children of today's American minorities - of those, 75% will be Hispanic. Currently only 50% of Hispanic students graduate with a high school diploma, compared to nearly 90% of White and/or Asian students, and this educational achievement gap persists at the college and post-graduate level. Barriers to success include cultural and socioeconomic disadvantages; public school systems without the resources to build on their students' potential; and lack of extracurricular educational learning opportunities that often are available to successful, motivated students from middle/upper class or private schools. The overall goal of the present proposal is to provide hands-on biomedical research training and career development to motivated underserved college students in order to stimulate their interest in a career in the sciences and/or academic medicine. We hypothesize that mentored research training and career development will improve scientific knowledge, strengthen student's academic self-efficacy beliefs, and create a personal career vision that motivates them to pursue a career in science or academic medicine. We will test this hypothesis with the following specific aims: recruit up to 25 minority and/or disadvantaged college students nationwide into a 10 week summer research program. provide mentored, hands-on research training in a research field of the student's choice that is relevant to the mission of National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). provide career development and expose students to careers in science and academic medicine. evaluate the outcomes of the program on the student's career choice.

描述(申请人提供)：美国的生物医学研究劳动力已经变得危险地依赖外国工人的输入，而世界经济的持续全球化只会增加对这些工人的竞争。因此，如果美国想要在技术、科学、工程和数学(STEM)领域保持世界领先地位，我们的国家迫切需要投资于自己的年轻人。美国国立卫生研究院(NIH)在这项投资中发挥了重要作用。到2025年，超过50%的美国高中生将是当今美国少数民族的孩子--其中75%将是西班牙裔。目前，只有50%的西班牙裔学生拥有高中文凭，而白人和/或亚裔学生的这一比例接近90%，而且这种教育成就差距在大学和研究生水平上仍然存在。取得成功的障碍包括文化和社会经济方面的劣势；公立学校系统没有资源来发展学生的潜力；缺乏课外教育学习机会，而来自中上阶层或私立学校的成功、有进取心的学生往往可以获得这种机会。这项建议的总体目标是为有动力的贫困大学生提供实践生物医学研究培训和职业发展，以激发他们对科学和/或学术医学事业的兴趣。我们假设，辅导式研究培训和职业发展将提高学生的科学知识，增强学生的学业自我效能感，并创造一个激励他们追求科学或学术医学事业的个人职业愿景。我们将通过以下具体目标来检验这一假设：在全国范围内招募多达25名少数民族和/或弱势大学生参加为期10周的暑期研究项目。在学生选择的与国家糖尿病、消化和肾脏疾病研究所(NIDDK)的使命相关的研究领域提供有指导的、动手的研究培训。提供职业发展，让学生接触到科学和学术医学的职业。评估该项目对学生职业选择的影响。