Advancing Child Health: Preparing the Next Generation of Pediatric Researchers.

 描述（由申请人提供）：本提案的长期目标是培养基础，临床和转化儿童健康研究的领导者。这些未来的领导者将成为下一代儿科创新者，致力于开拓性的进步，确保儿童从出生到成年都过上健康和富有成效的生活，没有疾病或残疾。为此，本文概述的研究教育计划旨在维持，扩大和补充费城儿童医院（CHOP）为期10周的本科夏季儿科研究实习-CHOP研究所夏季学者计划（CRISSP）-最终目标是创造独特的合格学生，他们准备成功并培养生物医学研究人员队伍。该计划每年为25名竞争力选择的学生实习生提供指导性研究培训，将通过为夏季体验增加四个核心增强功能来实现这一目标：掌握研究技术的正式指导和实践指导、基于研讨会的个性化职业探索培训、针对项目教师和学生的课堂导师指导，以及一个新颖的“行动中的指导”计划，其中本科生参与者与来自主要代表性不足的少数民族高中的学生建立指导关系。这些建议的增强，独特的CHOP暑期实习计划，将创建一个年轻的科学家领导者的特殊干部，具有欣赏儿科和儿童健康研究，技术熟练，职业和研究指导的重要性，以及多样性的价值天赋。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of this proposal is to develop leaders in basic, clinical, and translational child health research. These future leaders will serv as the next generation of innovators in pediatrics, dedicated to pioneering advances that ensure children lead healthy and productive lives, free from disease or disability, from birth to adulthood. Toward this end, the research education program outlined herein is designed to sustain, expand and supplement a piloted 10-week undergraduate summer pediatric research internship at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) - the CHOP Research Institute Summer Scholars Program (CRISSP) - with the ultimate goal of creating uniquely qualified students who are primed to both succeed in and foster the biomedical research workforce pipeline. The program, which provides mentored research training to 25 competitively-chosen student interns annually, will achieve this goal by adding four core enhancements to the summer experience: formalized instruction and hands-on tutelage in mastering research techniques, workshop-based and individualized career exploration training, in-classroom mentorship instruction for both program faculty and students, and a novel "mentorship-in-action" program wherein undergraduate participants form mentoring relationships with students from primarily underrepresented minority-serving high schools. These proposed enhancements, unique to the CHOP summer internship program, will create an exceptional cadre of young scientist-leaders, gifted with an appreciation for pediatrics and child health research, technical proficiency, the importance of career and research mentoring, and the value of diversity.