Biomedical Science Education Postdoctoral Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：这个机构研究和学术职业发展奖（IRACDA）的申请解决了两个相关的问题：在生物医学科学研究中，代表性不足的少数民族（URM）的代表性不足，以及缺乏培养大学培养的博士科学家在本科学院担任科学家教育工作者的发展计划。为了解决这些问题，我们建议在NJ-Robert Wood Johnson医学院医学与牙科大学（UMDNJ-RWJMS）建立一个生物医学科学教育博士后培训计划，该计划将培养博士后成为研究人员和教育工作者，并将使他们有机会在附近的3个少数民族服务机构（MSI）教授和指导本科生：新泽西市立大学、长岛大学布鲁克林校区和纽约市立大学梅德加·埃弗斯学院。该提案有两个具体目标：1)为最近的博士学位获得者准备成为教育工作者和生物医学科学家的职业，2)提高MSI 3所合作学校的本科生对生物医学科学职业的兴趣。拟建项目为3年结构化博士后培养项目，每年培养5人，3-5年培养15人。受训者将参加美国国立卫生研究院资助的实验室的指导研究，结构化的职业发展计划，以及合作伙伴MSI的指导教学和课程开发计划。每个MSI的指导教师将与博士后学员和UMDNJ-RWJMS的教师密切合作。MSI教师与研究型大学教师的互动，以及博士后学员积极参与教学和指导学生，将增强学生的科学发展和科学职业道路的意识。该计划将通过增加MSI学生进入STEM专业的入学率和保留率，增加学生申请和进入有指导的本科研究项目，以及增加对研究职业的兴趣来评估，通过参加GRE和申请并进入研究生教育来衡量；还将评估更多的RWJMS学员进入教育/研究职业。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application for an Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA) addresses two related problems: The inadequate representation of underrepresented minorities (URM's) in biomedical science research and the lack of developmental programs to prepare university-trained Ph.D. scientists for careers as scientist educators in undergraduate colleges. To address these problems, we propose to create a Biomedical Science Education Postdoctoral Training Program at University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (UMDNJ-RWJMS), which will train postdoctoral fellows to be researchers and educators, and will give them the opportunity to teach and mentor undergraduate trainees at 3 nearby Minority Serving Institutions (MSI's): New Jersey City University, Long Island University -Brooklyn Campus and Medgar Evers College of the City University of NY. The proposal has two Specific Aims: 1) To prepare recent Ph.D. recipients for careers as educators and biomedical scientists, and 2) To increase the interest of undergraduates at the 3 MSI partner schools in careers in the biomedical sciences. The proposed program will be a structured 3-year postdoctoral training program for 5 trainees per year, i.e., reaching a total of 15 in years 3-5. The trainees will participate in mentored research in NIH-funded laboratories, a structured career development program, and a mentored teaching and course development program at a partner MSI. The mentoring faculty at each MSI will work closely with the postdoctoral trainees and the faculty at UMDNJ-RWJMS. Interaction of MSI faculty with faculty at a research-intensive university and active participation of the postdoctoral trainees in teaching and mentoring students will enhance the students' scientific development and awareness of scientific career pathways. This program will be evaluated by increased entry and retention of MSI students into STEM majors, increased student application and entry into mentored undergraduate research programs, and increased interest in research careers, as measured by taking the GRE and applying to and entering graduate education; increased entry of RWJMS trainees into education/ research careers will also be evaluated. RELEVANCE (See instructions): This proposal is to establish a Biomedical Science Education Postdoctoral Training Program at University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ-JW Johnson Medical School. This program will prepare recent Ph.D. recipients for careers as educator/scientists at undergraduate colleges, and will increase the entry of underrepresented minority students at 3 partner Minority Serving Institutions into research careers.