Virginia Commonwealth University Initiative for Maximizing Student Development

弗吉尼亚联邦大学最大化学生发展倡议

• 批准号: 8636834
• 负责人: LOUIS J DE FELICE
• 金额: $ 34.52万
• 依托单位: VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-15 至 2018-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8636834
• 关键词: Academic achievement; Address; Awareness; Biology; Biomedical Research; CCL7 gene; Career Choice; Communication; Complement; Critical Thinking; Data; Development; Discipline; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational Status; Educational workshop; Enrollment; Ensure; Funding; Future; Goals; Healthcare; Humanities; Individual; Intervention; Leadership; Medicine; Mentors; Methods; Monitor; Paper; Performance; Personality; Positioning Attribute; Problem Solving; Productivity; Program Development; Publishing; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Science; Self Efficacy; Students; System; Testing; Training; Training Programs; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Virginia; Visit; Vocational Guidance; Work; career; career development; college; design; experience; graduate student; improved; insight; interest; medical schools; minority trainee; novel; novel strategies; peer; pre-doctoral; programs; public health relevance; skills; success; symposium; undergraduate research; undergraduate student; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) IMSD program was prompted by a self-study that indicated underrepresented minority (URM) undergraduates in STEM-H majors and PhD students in the biomedical sciences were underperforming in their academic programs. The aims of the original proposal were focused on PhD students in the biomedical sciences and Biology undergraduates and were largely designed to increase (a) numbers of URM biology majors who remained in the major, participated in undergraduate research, enrolled in biomedical PhD programs after completing the degree, and completed the PhD in biomedical disciplines and (b) improve academic performance and research productivity of URM students in the biomedical sciences. During the current period of support we have made significant progress towards achieving these goals. The program supported 23 URM undergraduates who participated in mentored research and provided academic/ career counseling to these individuals and countless more through the Undergraduate Research Coordinator in Biology, a position developed through a partnership between VCU-IMSD, VCU-MARC, and the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences. Both of the IMSD Undergraduate Scholars have finished the degree to date are pursuing additional training in the biomedical sciences. Seventy five percent of supported VCU-IMSD PhD students are making good progress towards their degrees and the first of these individuals will complete the PhD in spring or summer of 2013. We view these data as evidence that VCU-IMSD "is working", but also recognize the need for further program development to increase our success rate and improve the quality of the experience that we provide to trainees. To accomplish those goals, the specific aims of this competitive renewal are: (1) To provide mentored research experiences for 16 IMSD Undergraduate Scholars/ year and 4 IMSD PhD students/ year, (2): To use both well-tested and novel strategies to increase academic success of IMSD trainees, (3) To design and deliver enrichment activities that develop trainees' critical thinking/ problem solving skills, improve communications skills, increase awareness of careers that complement their interests and personalities, (4) To ensure that at least 60% of IMSD Undergraduate Scholars enroll in competitive PhD programs in the biomedical sciences, (5) To ensure that e 90% of IMSD Scholars who enroll complete PhD programs in the biomedical sciences, (6) To use aggressive recruiting strategies to increase URM applications to the Biomedical Sciences Doctoral Portal by 100%, and (7) To increase productivity of URM PhD students to be comparable to that of their peers. Focused mentoring and careful selection of research mentors will be used to enhance productivity of IMSD PhD students. We believe our aims are achievable and consistent with the goals of the IMSD Program "to develop the pool of a diverse group of highly trained undergraduate and graduate students who go on to research careers and will be available to participate in NIH-funded research."

描述(由申请人提供)：弗吉尼亚联邦大学(VCU)IMSD项目是由一项自我研究推动的，该研究表明，STEM-H专业的未被充分代表的少数族裔(URM)本科生和生物医学科学博士学生在他们的学术项目中表现不佳。原建议的目的主要是针对生物医学博士和生物本科生，主要是为了增加(A)生物医学专业的学生数量，这些学生继续主修该专业，参与本科研究，在完成学位后进入生物医学博士课程，并完成生物医学学科的博士学位，以及(B)提高生物医学专业学生的学习成绩和研究生产力。在目前的支助期间，我们在实现这些目标方面取得了重大进展。该计划支持了23名URM本科生，他们参与了指导研究，并通过VCU-IMSD、VCU-MARC和VCU人文与科学学院之间的合作伙伴关系设立了生物学本科生研究协调员，为这些人和无数人提供学术/职业咨询。两名IMSD本科生均已完成学位，目前正在接受生物医学科学方面的额外培训。VCU-IMSD资助的博士生中有75%的人在攻读学位方面取得了良好的进步，其中第一批人将在2013年春季或夏季完成博士学位。我们认为这些数据证明VCU-IMSD“正在发挥作用”，但也认识到需要进一步发展项目，以提高我们的成功率和我们为学员提供的体验的质量。为了实现这些目标，本次竞争更新的具体目标是：(1)为16名IMSD本科生/年和4名IMSD博士生/年提供辅导研究经验；(2)：使用经过充分测试的和新颖的策略来提高IMSD学员的学术成功；(3)设计和提供丰富的活动，培养学员的批判性思维/解决问题的技能，提高沟通能力，提高对符合其兴趣和个性的职业的认识；(4)确保至少60%的IMSD本科生攻读竞争激烈的生物医学博士课程，(5)确保90%攻读完整生物医学博士课程的国际管理学院奖学金获得者；。(6)采用积极的招生策略，使生物医学博士门户网站的生物医学博士生申请人数增加100%；及(7)提高生物医学博士生的生产力，使之与同龄人相若。重点指导和精心挑选研究导师将被用来提高国际管理发展学院博士生的工作效率。我们相信我们的目标是可以实现的，并与IMSD计划的目标一致，即培养一批训练有素的本科生和研究生，他们将继续从事研究事业，并将可以参与NIH资助的研究。