Short-Term Training in Biomedical Research for Under-Represented Minorities

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份修订后的申请，旨在竞争性更新NHLBI少数民族学生短期研究培训计划，该计划自1999年以来一直在佛罗里达大学实施。该培训计划的目的是为本科学生和卫生专业学校的学生提供在一个活跃的研究实验室进行为期10周的体验，为他们提供涵盖年轻科学家感兴趣和需要的主题的教学材料。该项目招收的学生在医学科学领域的代表性不足（代表性不足的少数民族、残疾或弱势学生）。该培训计划的更新计划是在佛罗里达大学健康科学中心的三个学院进行心血管、肺部和血液学研究的广泛接触。这个拟议的培训项目的教员横跨好几个系。我们希望这个项目能够捕捉到心血管科学的兴趣和方法的多样性，为三个学院（医学、药学和兽医学）的教授提供一个快照，他们的研究兴趣重叠，但学术使命不同，为我们的学员提供丰富的科学可能性，超越有时天真的医疗实践概念。大多数教师都直接参与研究，这些研究很容易被识别为心血管，肺或心肾研究。项目主任是Charles E. Wood博士，一位著名的心血管发育生理学家，他对胎儿心血管系统的反射控制的理解做出了根本性的贡献。伍德博士将在系主任办公室和少数民族事务办公室（OMA）指导相关活动。受训者的选拔是由一个由四名教员组成的委员会完成的，这些教员都是联合大学医学院的主要成员。在培训计划期间，讲座和培训研讨会的选择和监督将由Wood博士作为项目主管完成。该计划的结构被设计为8-10周的实验室指导经验，每周有一个总体的系列讲座，旨在告诉学生学术科学和博士培训计划的结构。学生还将被要求参加负责任的研究行为的短期课程。提出了一个评估项目有效性的计划，该计划将评估职业目标、感知障碍、学术研究职业知识和高等教育研究知识。该评估计划将在5年后作为报告的基础，报告这种本科生研究训练模式的有效性。在课程结束时，OMA会对学员进行跟踪。我们鼓励学生申请参加这个项目的第二个夏天。在适当的情况下，鼓励个别学生申请佛罗里达大学的各种研究生课程，特别是生物医学科学的跨学科课程，以及博士，医学博士，D.V.M和药学博士。项目。我们想让我们的学员意识到基础研究的力量，特别是在心血管科学方面，这样他们就会有动力选择研究领域的职业，并成功地开始研究生水平的培训。如果我们改善在学术科学领域代表性不足的少数民族的招聘和成功，我们将取得成功。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a revised application for competitive renewal of the NHLBI Short-Term Research Training for Minority Students program which has been in place at the University of Florida since 1999. The purpose of this training program is to offer undergraduate students and students in health professional schools a ten week experience in an active research laboratory, to offer them didactic material covering topics of interest to, and needed by, young scientists. The students recruited into this program will be underrepresented in medical science (under-represented minorities, disabled, or disadvantaged students). The proposed renewal of this training program is planned as a broad- based exposure to research in cardiovascular, pulmonary, and hematologic research in three colleges of the University of Florida Health Science Center. The faculty for this proposed training program spans several departments. We want this program to capture the diversity of interests and approaches to cardiovascular science, to offer a snapshot of professors in three colleges (Medicine, Pharmacy, and Veterinary Medicine) with overlapping research interests but different academic missions, to offer to our trainees a wealth of possibilities in science beyond what are sometimes naive notions of medical practice. Most of the faculty are directly involved in research which is easily identifiable as cardiovascular, pulmonary, or cardiorenal research. The program director is Charles E. Wood, Ph.D., a well-known developmental cardiovascular physiologist who has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the reflex control of the fetal cardiovascular system. Dr. Wood will direct the relevant activities in the office of the department chairman's office as well as the Office of Minority Affairs (OMA). Selection of trainees is done by a committee consisting of four faculty members, all leading members of the U.F. College of Medicine faculty. Selection and oversight of lectures and training seminars offered during the training program will be done by Dr. Wood in his role as program director. The structure of the program is designed to be an 8-10 week mentored laboratory experience with an overarching weekly lecture series that will is designed to inform students about the structure of academic science and doctoral training programs. The students will also be required to attend a short course in the Responsible Conduct of Research. A plan for evaluation of program effectiveness is proposed that will assess career goals, perceived barriers, knowledge of academic research careers, and knowledge of higher education in research. The evaluation plan will be used as the basis of a report, after 5 years, of effectiveness of this modality of research training for undergraduates. At the end of the program, the trainees are tracked by the OMA. Students are encouraged to apply for a second summer in this program. When appropriate, individual students are encouraged to apply to the various graduate programs at the University of Florida, especially to the Interdisciplinary Program in Biomedical Sciences, but also to Ph.D., M.D., D.V.M., and Pharm.D. programs. We want to make our trainees aware of the power of basic research, especially in the cardiovascular sciences, so that they will be motivated to choose careers in research and to successfully initiate graduate-level training. We will be a success if we improve recruitment and success of under-represented minorities in academic science.