Minority Research Training in Biomedical and Behavioral STEM Disciplines at FLC

FLC 生物医学和行为 STEM 学科少数族裔研究培训

• 批准号: 8664882
• 负责人: LESLIE E. SOMMERVILLE
• 金额: $ 3.11万
• 依托单位: FORT LEWIS COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-06-01 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8664882
• 关键词: Address; Area; Biology; CCL7 gene; Caring; Communities; Country; Faculty; Goals; Health; Health Professional; Health Services Accessibility; Health Services Research; Health Status; Hispanics; Individual; Knowledge; Lead; Learning; Link; Low Income Population; Mentors; Minority; Minority Groups; Native Americans; Population; Positioning Attribute; Recruitment Activity; Regimen; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; STEM field; Students; Training; Training Programs; Training in Biomedical and Behavioral Research; Tribes; Underrepresented Minority; United States; career; college; community college; health care delivery; high school; programs; response; success; undergraduate student; waiver

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Native American and Hispanic communities are in desperate need of doctoral-level health care professionals and researchers with the capabilities to understand and address the unique health issues of these low-income populations. The most efficient way to provide culturally appropriate care is to train individuals from these underrepresented minority groups who have a personal understanding of specific cultural health issues to research and health care regimens to develop. Fort Lewis College is uniquely positioned to increase the number of underrepresented minority students entering biomedical-related doctoral training programs. Approximately 1000 of our undergraduate students (about 28% of the student population) are Native American or Hispanic. The 758 Native American students come from more than 105 different tribes from across the United States in response to our Native American tuition waiver. The Hispanic students derive from the large Hispanic population in the Four Corners area. STEM disciplines, particularly Biology, are the most popular majors of the minority students. To date, our success in mentoring minority students into doctoral programs has been modest, with about four Native American and Hispanic students entering doctoral programs in the last five years. The MARC U-STAR training program that we propose will increase the number of underrepresented minority students with the qualifications to be admitted to doctoral level graduate programs to at least nine students over the next five years. The program will immerse the students in faculty-lead, biomedicaly-relevant research projects at Fort Lewis College and our research intensive institutional partners with the goal of demystifying the scientific enterprise and linking the basic scientific knowledge learned in disparate courses into a larger framework. Additionally, we will actively recruit high achieving underrepresented minority students from high schools and community colleges with the goal of developing a community of scholars at Fort Lewis College. Our long term goal is to establish a reputation for preparing underrepresented minority students for successful careers as doctoral level health professionals and researchers. RELEVANCE: Native American and Hispanic communities have the worst access to health care in the United States. Since Fort Lewis College attracts Native American students from more than 105 tribes from across the country, the training program that we propose has the potential to impact health care and delivery for Native American and Hispanic communities well beyond our local region.

描述（由申请人提供）：美洲原住民和西班牙裔社区迫切需要博士级医疗保健专业人员和研究人员，以了解和解决这些低收入人群独特的健康问题。提供文化上适当的护理的最有效方法是培训这些代表性不足的少数群体中对特定文化健康问题有个人了解的个人，以进行研究和制定医疗保健方案。刘易斯堡学院具有独特的优势，可以增加进入生物医学相关博士培训项目的少数族裔学生的数量。我们大约 1000 名本科生（约占学生人数的 28%）是美洲原住民或西班牙裔。这 758 名美国原住民学生来自美国各地超过 105 个不同的部落，以响应我们的美国原住民学费减免政策。西班牙裔学生来自四角地区的大量西班牙裔人口。 STEM学科，尤其是生物学，是少数族裔学生最受欢迎的专业。迄今为止，我们在指导少数族裔学生进入博士课程方面取得的成功还算有限，在过去五年中，大约有四名美国原住民和西班牙裔学生进入了博士课程。我们提出的 MARC U-STAR 培训计划将在未来五年内将具有博士研究生课程录取资格的少数族裔学生人数增加到至少 9 名。该计划将使学生沉浸在路易斯堡学院和我们的研究密集型机构合作伙伴的教师主导的生物医学相关研究项目中，目的是揭开科学事业的神秘面纱，并将在不同课程中学到的基本科学知识连接到更大的框架中。此外，我们还将积极从高中和社区学院招募成绩优异、代表性不足的少数族裔学生，目标是在路易斯堡学院发展一个学者社区。我们的长期目标是建立声誉，为代表性不足的少数族裔学生做好成为博士级卫生专业人员和研究人员的成功职业生涯的准备。 相关性：美国原住民和西班牙裔社区获得医疗保健的机会最差。由于刘易斯堡学院吸引了来自全国各地超过 105 个部落的美国原住民学生，因此我们提出的培训计划有可能对我们当地地区以外的美国原住民和西班牙裔社区的医疗保健和服务产生影响。