Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium

简介（由申请人提供）：东南医学科学家研讨会（SEMSS）于2010年由阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校（UAB），埃默里大学和范德比尔特大学医学科学家培训计划（mstp）的学生建立。这三个项目共同主办了三年的研讨会，地点轮流在伯明翰（2010年）、亚特兰大（2011年）和纳什维尔（2012年）举行。研讨会的目的是在美国东南地区鼓励合作和跨学科的教育环境。这个完全由学生组织的研讨会旨在促进东南地区多个机构的医学博士研究生之间的联系，让学生了解学术医生职业生涯中固有的趋势、挑战和机会。每个SEMSS的计划包括三个主题演讲，多个特定主题的分组会议，MSTP学生研究海报会议和社会活动。分组会议分为医学博士研究生和本科生感兴趣的会议。会议持续了两天，会议内容从周六下午早些时候开始，到周日下午早些时候结束。SEMSS的目标受众是东南地区参加培训项目的医学博士和博士生，以及东南院校对未来从事医学科学家职业感兴趣的医学博士和本科生。这次研讨会的另一个目的是让本科生接触到内科科学家实习生和教师，以培养他们对职业的兴趣

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium (SEMSS) was established in 2010 by students from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Emory University, and Vanderbilt University Medical Scientist Training Programs (MSTPs). The three programs have co-hosted the symposium for three years with the location rotating among Birmingham (2010), Atlanta (2011), and Nashville (2012). The objective of the symposium is to encourage a collaborative and interdisciplinary educational environment within the Southeast region of the United States. This fully student-organized symposium seeks to foster connections between the MD/PhD students at multiple institutions across the Southeast, exposing students to trends, challenges, and opportunities inherent in careers of academic physicians. The program of each SEMSS has included three keynote speaker presentations, multiple topic-specific breakout sessions, MSTP student research poster sessions, and social events. The breakout sessions are divided into sessions of interest to MD/PhD students and undergraduates. The meetings have spanned two days, with content starting in the early afternoon on a Saturday and ending in the early afternoon on Sunday. The target audience for the SEMSS is MD/PhD students in training programs in the southeast and MD students and undergraduate students at southeastern institutions who have an interest in future careers as physician-scientists. An additional purpose of this symposium is to expose undergraduate students to physician-scientist trainees and faculty in order to foster excitement about careers in academic medicine and increase the pipeline of future physician-scientists. We think that this additional focus on undergraduate students from the region is critical to our purpose of enhancing the pipeline of students from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine (URIM), as according to US News and World Report, nine of the top twenty historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are located in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, or Louisiana.