Research Education and Career Horizons Program

描述(由申请人提供)：REACH-UP IRACDA结合前沿水平的生物医学研究和培训，在教学合作机构(TPI)教授本科生。来自MORE的持续资助将允许博士后继续将贝勒医学院(BCM)的研究与休斯顿三所(TPI)之一的教学相结合。普莱里维尤农工大学、圣托马斯大学和休斯顿市中心大学。博士后的工资和福利将由补助金支付，为期36个月，为期4年。IRACDA将增加具有前沿研究和教学经验的未来教师的供应。该项目包括一批高水平的UR博士后，为本科生提供榜样。在仅仅四年的时间里，博士后教授/共同教授了21门课程(三门新课程)，并使用了各种创造性的、互动的教学策略，这些策略正在被他们的TPI的教员采用。通过该项目开发的材料将通过http://www.bcm.edu/diversityprograms/iracda.提供博士后研究员将被招募到BCM加入该项目，或者将在博士后培训的头两年从博士后中招募。他们将在整个为期4年的项目中从事研究。IRACDA博士后的出版记录可以与其他美国博士后相媲美。在该计划的头11年半期间，他们将建立自己的实验室研究；参加关于有效教学策略、少数族裔健康差距的研讨会，以及与本科生互动并指导他们进入生物医学博士项目。在第二年的开始，博士后将与本科生教授协商，选择一个合作的校园基地和两个班级在项目的第二到第四年授课。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，纳入尖端技术和知识。他们将保留一份观察日志，并与项目负责人讨论，以帮助他们确定成功和不成功的教学方法，以及他们对与学生互动的印象。在该计划的第二到第四年，研究员将教授或联合教授总共两个课程，将尖端技术和知识引入他们的教学和利用电子媒体的主动学习策略。博士后将有时间在教学期间保持一定的研究效率。在接下来的几年里，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，为本科生开展活动。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学习感兴趣的学生担任外部顾问，以利用博士后在研究生教育中产生的兴趣。

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.