Research Education and Career Horizons Program

描述（由申请人提供）：REACH-UP IRACDA结合了前沿生物医学研究和在教学合作机构（TPI）教授本科生的培训。来自MORE的持续资助将允许博士后继续将贝勒医学院（BCM）的研究与休斯顿三分之一（TPI）的教学结合起来。Prairie View农工大学，圣托马斯大学和休斯顿市中心大学。博士后的薪金及福利由基金支付，为期4年，为期36个月。IRACDA将增加具有前沿研究和教学经验的未来教师的供应。该项目包括高水平的大学博士后，为本科生提供榜样。在短短4年的时间里，这些博士后已经教授或合作教授了21门课程（3门新课程），并使用了各种创造性的、互动的教学策略，这些策略正在他们的tpi教师中被采用。通过这个项目开发的材料正在通过http://www.bcm.edu/diversityprograms/iracda提供。本项目招收博士后，或在博士后培养的前两年招收博士后。他们将在整个四年的课程中从事研究工作。IRACDA博士后的发表记录与其他美国博士后相当。在项目的前半年中，他们将建立自己的实验室研究；参加有关有效教学策略、少数民族健康差异以及与进入生物医学博士项目的本科生互动和指导的研讨会。在第二年开始时，博士后将与本科教授协商，选择一个合作校园基地和两个班级，在项目的第二到第四年任教。在第二年，研究员将在一系列课程中观察教师，并将开始计划他们的讲座，结合前沿技术和知识。他们将记录观察结果，并与项目主管进行讨论，以帮助他们识别成功和不太成功的教学方法，以及他们自己与学生互动的印象。在项目的第二至第四年，研究员将教授或共同教授总共两个课程，将尖端技术和知识引入他们的教学中，并利用电子媒体积极学习策略。博士后将有时间在教学的同时保持一定的研究效率。在以后的几年里，博士后将继续研究，完成手稿并申请工作。博士后将举办IRACDA研讨会，并为本科生举办活动。PI和博士后将在全市范围内举办申请研究生院的研讨会，并为对生物医学博士研究感兴趣的学生提供外部顾问，以充分利用博士后对研究生教育的兴趣。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The REACH-UP IRACDA combines frontier level biomedical research and training to teach undergraduates in teaching partner institutions (TPI). Ongoing funding from MORE will permit post-docs to continue to combine research at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) with teaching at one of three (TPI) in Houston. Prairie View A& M University, St. Thomas University and the University of Houston Downtown. The salary and fringe benefits of post-docs will be paid by the grant for 36 months over a 4 year period. IRACDA will increase the supply of future faculty with frontier level research and teaching experience. The project includes a high level of UR post-docs providing role models for undergraduates. In only 4 years the post- docs have taught/co-taught 21 courses (three new courses) and used a variety of creative, interactive teaching strategies that are being adopted by faculty at their TPIs . Materials developed through this project are being made available through http://www.bcm.edu/diversityprograms/iracda. Post-doctoral fellows will be recruited to come to BCM to join the program or will be recruited from post- docs in the first two years of post-doc training. They will be engaged in research throughout the 4-year program. IRACDA post-docs have publication records that are comparable to other US post-docs. During the first 11/2 years of the program, they will establish their laboratory research; attend workshops on effective teaching strategies, minority health disparities and interacting with and mentoring undergraduates to enter biomedical Ph.D programs. At the beginning of the second year, post-docs will confer with undergraduate professors to select a partner campus base and two classes to teach during the second to fourth years of the program. In the second year, the fellows will observe faculty in a range of classes and will begin planning their lectures with incorporation of leading edge technology and knowledge. They will keep a journal of observations, which will be discussed with the program director to help them identify successful and less successful approaches to teaching and their own impressions of interacting with the students. During the second to fourth year of the program, the fellows will teach or co-teach a total of two classes introducing cutting-edge technology and knowledge into their teaching and active learning strategies that capitalize on electronic media. The post-docs will have time to maintain some research productivity while teaching. In the later years post-docs will continue research, complete manuscripts and apply for jobs. The post-docs will conduct an IRACDA Symposium with activities for undergraduates. The PI and post-docs will conduct city-wide workshops on applying to graduate school and serve as external advisors to students interested in biomedical Ph.D. study to capitalize on the interest generated in graduate education by the post-docs.