University of Maryland Summer Training and Research (UM STAR) Program

马里兰大学暑期培训与研究 (UM STAR) 计划

• 批准号: 8657088
• 负责人: JAMES M HAGBERG
• 金额: $ 10.7万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-04-15 至 2018-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8657088
• 关键词: Address; Admission activity; Affect; African American; Age; American Indians; Area; Awareness; Bachelor' s Degree; Behavioral Research; Behavioral Sciences; Benchmarking; Biomedical Research; Blood Pressure; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cardiovascular system; Cessation of life; Commit; Communities; Data; Dimensions; Disease; District of Columbia; Doctor' s Degree; Education; Education Projects; Educational Background; Electronic Mail; Environment; Ethics; Ethnic Origin; Ethnic group; Faculty; Feedback; Funding; Gender; Goals; Graduate Degree; Grant; Health; Healthy People 2020; Hispanics; Housing; Hypertension; Income; Individual; Internet; Knowledge; Laboratories; Laboratory Research; Latino; Life; Life Experience; Mails; Maryland; Measures; Mentors; Minority; Mission; Morbidity - disease rate; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Obesity; Oral; Outcome; Overweight; Population; Prevalence; Prevention; Process; Production; Program Evaluation; Public Health; Public Health Schools; Race; Recommendation; Recruitment Activity; Reporting; Research; Research Activity; Research Ethics; Research Personnel; Research Training; Scholarship; Schools; Science; Scientist; Site Visit; Strategic Planning; Students; Subgroup; Time; Training; Training Programs; Trust; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Ursidae Family; Work; abstracting; base; burden of illness; career; career development; community based participatory research; design; experience; health disparity; improved; low socioeconomic status; meetings; mortality; posters; premature; prevent; programs; research and development; skills; social; success; undergraduate student; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Maryland School of Public Health proposes to continue a Summer Training and Research (STAR) program to provide underrepresented undergraduate students with 2 10-wk summer sessions of research and career development training to enhance their potential to apply for and complete graduate degrees in biomedical/behavioral science relevant to preventing and treating cardiovascular (CV) disease. Our aim is to increase diversity in individuals who choose careers in biomedical/behavioral research to reduce morbidity and mortality from CV and related diseases. Specific objectives are to: (1) Increase knowledge of landmark research on the causes and prevention of CV and related diseases, (2) Enhance research skills and experience necessary to be competitive graduate school applicants in CV and related disease research areas, (3) Enhance awareness of the process, practice, and ethics of scientific research, (4) Prepare Trainees for graduate school and a research career, and (5) Provide quality mentoring. The program extends over 2 consecutive summers, with distinct activities for each summer. Applicants are recruited locally and nationally through mailings, email listservs, our Internet web site, visits to undergraduate campuses, and faculty networks. An Admissions Committee consisting of the Program Directors and Program Coordinator select Trainees and match them with Mentors. Trainees are provided with housing and remunerated for their work. Trainees primarily focus on research closely integrated with that of their Mentor. Research training comprises ~80% of the Trainees' time, with 20% spent in ethics, research-related, and career development training. Mentors are selected from School of Public Health faculty with research programs in content areas that are highly relevant to NHLBI. The mix of expertise ranges from laboratory-based bench research to applied community-based and community participatory research. In addition to direct research experience, Trainees meet weekly to discuss research activities, to set weekly goals, meet with various academic professionals for dynamic exchanges about graduate school issues, and discuss classic research articles relevant to CV disease. Weekly sessions on either Ethics- (1st Yr Trainees) or Research-Related (2nd Yr Trainees) Training is included. These sessions are highly interactive and provide Trainees with unique perspectives to consider and discuss. A 2nd Yr/1st Yr mentor/mentee program also enhances Trainee retention over two summers. Trainees present their research in oral and poster formats at the end of the summer session. Scientific, social, and cultural activities in the Washington, DC area are planned. Extensive program evaluation assesses how well the program achieves pre-determined Benchmarks. Internal and External Advisory Boards meet to review outcome data and make recommendations to improve and maintain program quality. We met virtually all of our original Benchmarks in the first 5 yrs of funding and made a number of substantive changes to improve the Program based on the feedback from the Trainees, Mentors, and Internal and External Advisory Boards. (End of Abstract)

描述（由申请人提供）：马里兰大学公共卫生学院提议继续开展夏季培训和研究 (STAR) 计划，为代表性不足的本科生提供 2 次为期 10 周的夏季研究和职业发展培训课程，以增强他们申请和完成与预防和治疗心血管 (CV) 疾病相关的生物医学/行为科学研究生学位的潜力。我们的目标是增加选择生物医学/行为研究职业的个人的多样性，以降低心血管及相关疾病的发病率和死亡率。具体目标是：(1) 增加对 CV 及相关疾病的病因和预防的里程碑式研究的了解，(2) 增强成为 CV 及相关疾病研究领域有竞争力的研究生申请者所需的研究技能和经验，(3) 增强对科学研究的过程、实践和道德的认识，(4) 为研究生院和研究生涯做好准备，以及 (5) 提供高质量的指导。该计划持续两个连续的夏季，每个夏季都有不同的活动。通过邮件、电子邮件列表服务器、我们的互联网在本地和全国范围内招募申请人 网站、参观本科校园和教师网络。由项目总监和项目协调员组成的招生委员会负责挑选学员并将其与导师进行匹配。为学员提供住房并为其工作提供报酬。受训者主要专注于与导师的研究紧密结合的研究。研究培训占受训人员约 80% 的时间，其中 20% 用于道德、研究相关和职业发展培训。导师从公共卫生学院教师中选出，他们的研究项目与 NHLBI 高度相关。专业知识的组合范围从基于实验室的基准研究到基于社区的应用和社区参与性研究。除了直接的研究经验外，学员每周会面讨论研究活动，设定每周目标，与各种学术专业人士会面，就研究生院问题进行动态交流，并讨论与心血管疾病相关的经典研究文章。包括每周关于道德（第一年学员）或研究相关（第二年学员）培训的课程。这些课程互动性很强，为学员提供了独特的视角来考虑和讨论。第二年/第一年导师/受训者计划还提高了两个夏天的受训者保留率。学员在夏季课程结束时以口头和海报的形式展示他们的研究成果。华盛顿特区地区的科学、社会和文化活动已计划进行。广泛的计划评估评估该计划实现预定基准的程度。内部和外部顾问委员会开会审查结果数据并提出改进和保持计划质量的建议。在资助的前 5 年里，我们几乎达到了所有最初的基准，并根据学员、导师以及内部和外部顾问委员会的反馈做出了一些实质性的改变来改进该计划。 （摘要完）