Mentoring Young Minds to Increase Diversity in the Biomedical Research

指导年轻人增加生物医学研究的多样性

• 批准号: 8453350
• 负责人: Antonio De Maio
• 金额: $ 82.64万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-03-01 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8453350
• 关键词: Address; Award; Biomedical Research; Commit; Communities; Data Analyses; Data Collection; Development; Disadvantaged; Doctor of Philosophy; Economics; Education; Enrollment; Experimental Designs; Faculty; Fellowship; Funding; Graduate Education; Group Meetings; Individual; Instruction; Journals; Knowledge; Laboratories; Laboratory Research; Learning; Life; Measurable; Mentors; Mentorship; Methodology; Mind; Monitor; Participant; Peer Review; Phase; Positioning Attribute; Preparation; Probability; Process; Program Development; Publications; Research; Research Activity; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Safety; Schools; Science; Solutions; Students; Supervision; Taste Perception; Techniques; Training; Universities; Work; career; college; disability; experience; graduate student; interest; meetings; post-doctoral training; programs; role model; satisfaction; skills; social; socioeconomics; success; undergraduate student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A diverse educational and scientific community is a vital component for developing a robust work force that can address the technological and social challenges of the U.S. in a new global economy. However, the access of students from disadvantaged social and economic backgrounds to graduate education (Ph.D. level) is still low in comparison with individuals from more privileged socioeconomic groups. This disparity is amplified during academic life, resulting in a lack of faculty diversity at most U.S. universities.To address this problem, the Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) program was established in 2008 at UCSD, which focuses on motivating, mentoring, and facilitating the transition of students from disadvantaged economic and social backgrounds and students with disabilities from college to graduate school. The UCSD-IMSD program is composed of three consecutive phases directed at mentoring students from their initial college education to the awarding of a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences. Phase 1 is directed at introducing freshmen students with no or limited prior research experience to scientific work via fundamental experimental instruction within the Basic Methodology Training Laboratory (BMTL). In this setting, students learn the essential research principles and skills (laboratory safety, basic techniques, data collection, and analysis) that will prepare them to participate in organized research projects. During Phase 2, students participate in hands-on, bench research projects under the mentorship of established, well-funded investigators. Thus, students are trained in several aspects of science, including experimental design, execution, data analysis and presentations, increasing their competitiveness as graduate school candidates. In addition, students are motivated to enroll into Ph.D. programs and assisted during the process. Students that are accepted in a UCSD graduate program (Phase 3) are mentored toward the completion of the Ph.D. work, are assisted in the application to fellowships and informed about various research careers, with special emphasis on postdoctoral training.

一个多元化的教育和科学界是发展一支强大的劳动力队伍的重要组成部分，可以解决美国在新的全球经济中面临的技术和社会挑战。然而，来自弱势社会和经济背景的学生获得研究生教育（博士）的机会。与社会经济地位较高群体的个人相比，贫困人口（在中等水平上）仍然较低。为了解决这一问题，UCSD于2008年设立了学生发展最大化计划（Initiative for Maximizing Student Development，IMSD），该计划的重点是激励、指导和促进来自弱势经济和社会背景的学生以及残疾学生从大学过渡到研究生院。UCSD-IMSD计划由三个连续的阶段组成，旨在指导学生从最初的大学教育到授予博士学位。在生物医学科学中。第一阶段旨在通过基本方法训练实验室（BMTL）内的基本实验教学，向没有或有限的先前研究经验的新生介绍科学工作。在这种情况下，学生学习基本的研究原则和技能（实验室安全，基本技术，数据收集和分析），这将使他们准备参加有组织的研究项目。在第二阶段，学生在资金充足的知名研究人员的指导下参与动手实验室研究项目。因此，学生在科学的几个方面进行培训，包括实验设计，执行，数据分析和演示，提高他们作为研究生院候选人的竞争力。此外，学生有动力攻读博士学位在此过程中，并协助。被UCSD研究生课程（第3阶段）接受的学生将被指导完成博士学位。工作，协助申请奖学金，并了解各种研究职业，特别强调博士后培训。