Yale Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program

耶鲁大学学士后研究教育计划

• 批准号: 8636742
• 负责人: CARL HASHIMOTO
• 金额: $ 26.18万
• 依托单位: YALE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-05-01 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8636742
• 关键词: Address; Admission activity; Biomedical Research; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Faculty; Foundations; Goals; Hawaiian population; Health; Hispanics; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Human; Institution; Journals; Knowledge; Laboratories; Life Experience; Literature; Mentors; Outcome; Pacific Island Americans; Participant; Preparation; Problem Solving; Puerto Rico; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Schools; Science; Students; Supervision; Testing; Time; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; career; college; doctoral student; experience; graduate student; health disparity; improved; programs; public health relevance; research study; skills

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.

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案描述了耶鲁大学的学士后研究教育计划（PREP），该计划将为八名URM学士毕业生提供为期一年的生物医学科学教师指导研究培训计划和研究生入学教育准备。拟议中的耶鲁大学预科项目的长期目标是增加在生物医学科学领域，特别是在耶鲁大学攻读博士学位的代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生的数量。耶鲁大学预科将从广泛的学院和大学，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，以及通过耶鲁大学和檀香山，夏威夷土著和太平洋岛民服务机构的查米纳德大学之间令人兴奋的新伙伴关系招募学士毕业生。耶鲁大学PREP的目标是为计划参与者提供成为成功研究生所需的知识，经验和技能的基础。计划参与者的具体目标是：1）体验生活作为一个生物医学研究生在一个主要的研究型大学，参加课程，并与第一年的博士生一起接受指导。2)在教师导师的监督下进行独立的研究项目，他们最终负责规划和执行实验，包括制定和测试假设。3)学习包括GRE准备，研究生院和职业讲习班，研究文献研讨会课程，涵盖健康差距研究，耶鲁课程和研究报告的期刊俱乐部的教育课程。计划参与者将把75%的时间用于独立研究，25%用于教育课程。耶鲁大学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。他们还将展示对生物医学研究的更多承诺，最终将以追求博士学位而告终。拟议的耶鲁大学PREP的影响将扩大来自生物医学科学代表性不足的群体的优秀博士生的人才库，从而扩大解决人类健康和疾病，包括健康差距等重要问题所需的观点的多样性。