Promoting Diversity in Research Training for Health Professionals

 描述(申请人提供)：德克萨斯州的种族和少数民族人口在2004年超过了盎格鲁人口，并预计在未来几年将大幅增加。由于社会经济和其他因素，对少数民族教育程度的预测处于历史低位，这表明大学、研究生和职业学校的入学人数仍存在差距。尽管人口第二多的德克萨斯州的人口发生了变化，但在德克萨斯州，事实上在美国，少数民族学生进入生物医学博士学习的人数仍然很低。因此，迫切需要培训大量的保健专业人员，以便不仅在德克萨斯州而且在国家一级为少数族裔人口服务。为了满足这一迫切需求，我们提出了“促进卫生专业人员研究培训多样性(PDRT)”计划。北德克萨斯大学健康科学中心(UNTHSC)在培训少数族裔生物医学科学家方面是德克萨斯州健康科学中心中的领先者。我们已经制定了一项综合计划，以增加生物医学研究中的少数民族人数，包括K-12、本科生、研究生和博士后水平的教育。PRDT的总体目标是为参加健康专业计划的人数不足的少数族裔个人提供与心血管、肺部、血液和睡眠障碍相关的健康差异的具有挑战性和重点的研究体验。PRDT的具体目标是：目标1.从UNTHSC的健康专业项目(骨科、药房、公共卫生和医生助理)以及区域健康专业项目(德克萨斯大学西南医学中心、德克萨斯农工医学院、德克萨斯女子大学)培养一批申请者，并每年招募15名参与者参加PDRT项目。目标2.提供一个为期10周的研究计划，将心血管、肺、血液和睡眠障碍的研究结合起来，特别强调健康差异。目标3.在负责任的研究、实验设计、专业间教育和健康差距方面提供讲习班。这些目标将通过以下活动实现：(1)招聘，(2)研究培训和教育，(3)培训学者以提高其成功的技能，(4)评估和(5)跟踪。我们的期望是，继续专注于实现我们的目标将直接影响我们最终实现我们的目标，即在与心血管疾病相关的健康差距研究中获得由代表性不足的人口组成的多样化人口。(摘要结束)

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The racial and ethnic minority population in Texas surpassed the Anglo population in 2004, and is projected to increase substantially in the coming years. Projections for educational attainment for minorities, historically low because of socioeconomic and other factors, suggest continued disparity for college, graduate and professional school enrollment. Admission of minority students into doctoral study in the biomedical sciences in Texas, and indeed in the nation, remains low despite population changes in Texas, the second most populous in the country. Thus, there is a critical need to train a large number of health professionals to serve minority populations, not only in Texas but also at the national level. To address this critical need, we propose the "Promoting Diversity in Research Training for Health Professionals (PDRT)" program. University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) is a leader among the health science centers in Texas in training minority biomedical scientists. We have developed an integrated plan to increase the number of minorities in biomedical research, incorporating education at the K-12, undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral levels. The overall goal of PRDT is to provide underrepresented minority individuals, who are enrolled in a health professional program, a challenging and focused research experience in health disparities related to cardiovascular, pulmonary, hematologic and sleep disorders.. The specific aims of the PRDT are: Aim 1. Generate a pool of applicants from the health professional programs at UNTHSC (Osteopathy, Pharmacy, Public Health and Physician Assistants) as well as regional health professional programs (UT-Southwestern Medical Center, Texas A&M College of Medicine, Texas Women's University), and recruit 15 participants each year for the PDRT program. Aim 2. Provide a 10-week research program that combines research in cardiovascular, pulmonary, hematologic and sleep disorders, with a special emphasis on health disparities. Aim 3. Provide workshops in responsible conduct of research, experimental design, interprofessional education and health disparities. These aims will be accomplished by the following activities: (1) Recruitment, (2) Research Training and Education, (3) Training Scholar to improve their skills to succeed, (4) Evaluation and (5) Tracking. Our expectation is that continued focus on the aims in meeting our objective will directly impact eventual achievement of our goal of obtaining a diverse population comprised of underrepresented populations in health disparity research related to cardiovascular diseases. (End of Abstract)