Journey: NIDDK Short-Term Education Program for Underrepresented Persons/STEP-UP

描述（由申请人提供）：社区健康科学学院下属的美国印第安人研究与教育中心(AIREC)/拉斯维加斯内华达大学（UNLV）与密歇根州Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa社区学院（KBOCC）和阿拉斯加费尔班克斯大学阿留申内陆校区农村营养服务项目合作，提议开发和实施为期八周的暑期项目。旅程是响应国家糖尿病、消化和肾脏疾病研究所（NIDDK）的“弱势群体短期教育计划”（STEP-UP）。该计划将向20名美国印第安人/阿拉斯加原住民（AI/AN）初高中学生介绍糖尿病、内分泌学、新陈代谢、营养学和肥胖症的科学知识。旅程的长期目标是为高中生开发一个可持续的研究教育计划，提供生物医学，行为和临床研究，预防和推广针对糖尿病，内分泌学，代谢，营养和肥胖的健康差异研究的实践经验。旅程将让学生直接接触导师，研究方法，技能建设，和同行的研究人员。这将导致以下可测量的变化：“增加对现实世界中科学方法使用的了解；”研究在塑造医学和行为领域中的作用；”增进对健康相关研究中负责任行为的认识；"增加了对研究科学家的作用和追求医学科学事业的人的多样性的认识。Journey旨在提高AI/AN的能力和科学知识，以便在生物医学、行为、临床和社会科学研究领域获得更高的教育学位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The American Indian Research and Education Center (AIREC)/ University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) under the School of Community Health Sciences in collaboration with Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College (KBOCC), Michigan and Rural Nutrition Services Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Interior Aleutians Campus, proposes the development and implementation of Journey an eight week summer program. Journey is in response to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK), Short-Term Education Program for Underrepresented Persons (STEP-UP). The proposed project will expose twenty American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) junior and senior high school students to the science of diabetes, endocrinology, metabolism, nutrition, and obesity. The long-term objective of Journey is to develop a sustainable research education program for high school students that provide hands on experiences with biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research, prevention and outreach targeting health disparities research in diabetes, endocrinology, metabolism, nutrition, and obesity. Journey will give students direct exposure to mentors, research methods, skill building, and fellow researchers. This will result in the following measurable changes: " Increased knowledge of real-world use of scientific methods; " The role that research plays in shaping medical and behavioral fields; " Increased knowledge of responsible conduct in health-related research; " Increased knowledge of the role of research scientists and the diversity of people who pursue medical-science careers. Journey is designed to increase AI/AN's capacity and scientific knowledge to pursue higher education degrees in the biomedical, behavioral, clinical and social sciences research fields.