Yale Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案描述了耶鲁大学的学士学位后研究教育计划（PREP），该计划将为8名URM学士毕业生提供为期一年的生物医学科学研究培训计划，并为研究生入学做教育准备。耶鲁大学预科计划的长期目标是增加在生物医学科学领域攻读博士学位的少数族裔（URM）学生的数量，尤其是在耶鲁大学。耶鲁大学预科将从广泛的学院和大学招收学士学位毕业生，特别是历史上的黑人学院和大学，西班牙裔服务机构和波多黎各大学，以及耶鲁大学与夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民服务机构檀香山查米纳德大学之间令人兴奋的新合作伙伴关系。耶鲁预科的目标是为项目参与者提供成为成功研究生所需的知识、经验和技能基础。项目参与者的具体目标是：1)作为一名主要研究型大学的生物医学研究生体验生活，与一年级博士生一起上课和接受指导。2)在导师的指导下进行独立的研究项目，最终负责计划和执行实验，包括制定和测试假设。3)学习教育课程，包括GRE准备、研究生院和职业研讨会、研究文献研讨会、健康差异研究期刊俱乐部、耶鲁课程和研究报告。项目参与者将投入75%的时间进行独立研究，25%的时间用于教育课程。耶鲁PREP参与者的预期成果包括提高实验室技能、解决问题的能力、生物医学研究知识和演讲技巧。他们还将表现出对生物医学研究的更大承诺，这最终将在追求博士学位时达到高潮。拟议中的耶鲁大学预科计划的影响将是扩大来自生物医学科学中代表性不足的群体的优秀博士生的数量，从而扩大解决人类健康和疾病的重要问题所需的视角多样性，包括健康差异。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal describes a Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) at Yale University that will provide eight URM baccalaureate graduates with a one-year program of faculty-mentored research training in the biomedical sciences and educational preparation for graduate school admission. The long-term goal of the proposed Yale PREP is to increase the number of underrepresented minority (URM) students pursuing doctoral studies in the biomedical sciences, especially at Yale. Yale PREP will recruit baccalaureate graduates from a wide range of colleges and universities but especially historically black colleges and universities, Hispanic serving institutions, and the University of Puerto Rico, as well as through an exciting new partnership between Yale and Chaminade University of Honolulu, a Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander serving institution. The goal of Yale PREP is to provide program participants with a foundation of knowledge, experiences, and skills necessary to be successful graduate students. Specific objectives for program participants are: 1) To experience life as a biomedical graduate student at a major research university, taking courses and receiving mentoring alongside first year PhD students. 2) To conduct, under supervision of a faculty mentor, an independent research project for which they ultimately take responsibility for planning and executing experiments, including formulating and testing hypotheses. 3) To study an educational curriculum that consists of GRE preparation, graduate school and career workshops, a research literature seminar course, a journal club covering health-disparities research, Yale courses, and research presentations. Program participants will devote 75% of their time to independent research and 25% to the educational curriculum. Expected outcomes for Yale PREP participants include improved laboratory skills, problem-solving abilities, biomedical research knowledge, and presentation skills. They will also demonstrate an increased commitment to biomedical research, which should ultimately culminate in the pursuit of the PhD degree. The impact of the proposed Yale PREP will be to expand the pool of exceptional doctoral students from underrepresented groups in the biomedical sciences and thus the diversity of perspectives needed to address important problems in human health and disease, including health disparities.