The Summer Pharmacy Experiences in Academic Research (SPEAR) program at Hampton University School of Pharmacy

汉普顿大学药学院夏季药学学术研究经验 (SPEAR) 项目

• 批准号: 9769838
• 负责人: Anand K. Iyer
• 金额: $ 8.54万
• 依托单位: HAMPTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9769838
• 关键词: Accreditation; Address; Affect; African American; Area; Basic Science; Biomedical Research; Cardiovascular Diseases; Chronic Disease; Color; Competence; Data; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Disease; Diverse Workforce; Education; Ensure; Exposure to; Faculty; Fostering; Future; Goals; Health; Healthcare; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Immersion Investigative Technique; Individual; Institution; Instruction; Journals; Laboratories; Laboratory Research; Lung diseases; Mentors; Mentorship; Minority; Minority Groups; Minority Participation; Mission; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Oral; Paper; Pathway interactions; Patient Care; Pharmacists; Pharmacologic Substance; Pharmacy Education; Pharmacy Schools; Pharmacy Students; Pharmacy facility; Population; Positioning Attribute; Program Evaluation; Program Sustainability; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Proposals; Research Training; Resource Development; Science; Scientific Societies; Self Assessment; Stroke; Student recruitment; Students; Supervision; Testing; Training; Training Programs; Underrepresented Groups; Underrepresented Minority; Underserved Population; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Virginia; West Virginia; Work; Writing; career; design; experience; faculty mentor; faculty research; hands on research; interest; medical schools; member; minority health; minority student; minority trainee; next generation; posters; programs; responsible research conduct; success; summer research; symposium; training opportunity

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Several federal and state institutions including the NIH have recognized the urgent need to expand the participation of individuals from underrepresented minorities in all areas of health-related research. To this end, these organizations have actively solicited the involvement of educational institutions in providing pathways for students from minority population to be engaged and to participate in biomedical research. An increase in researchers from underrepresented minorities will not only contribute towards a strong and diverse work force, it will also help in tacking important chronic diseases areas such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and pulmonary disorders that disproportionately afflict the minority population. This proposal aims to establish the `Summer Pharmacy Experiences in Academic Research' program, or SPEAR, at the Hampton University School of Pharmacy. This program will offer a 10-week intensive hands-on research-training course to minority students from the School of Pharmacy. This program will select minority students that have successfully completed their first year of pharmacy school, and place them in research laboratories under the guidance of mentoring faculty in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences that have been identified. These trainees will be instructed in several area of biomedical research, encouraged to execute research ideas with the help of their mentor, and put together a short research paper and an abstract to be presented at national conferences over the period of two summers. The program is designed such that the first year will be completed at Hampton University laboratories, whereas students that return for a second summer will be sent to laboratories at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) and West Virginia University (WVU) for a more intensive research experience. The overall goal of this training program is to foster in these minority students the desire to pursue a future in health-related research following graduation from pharmacy school. Aim I is designed to identify and select the most appropriate minority student candidates to participate in the summer research program. At present we will be training six students in the first year, and nice in subsequent years, all of whom will be placed under the mentorship of research faculty either at HU, EVMS or WVU. In Aim II, the selected trainees will be engaged over multiple years within the program wherein they will generate a research proposal under the supervision of their faculty mentors over a 10-week period in the summer, and will generate preliminary experimental data in relation to the project. They will also be instructed in the responsible conduct of research, and participate in journal club seminars and case presentations. At the end of this training period, the students will be required to generate a short scientific report. Students will be encouraged to participate in a local or national conference in their field of research, where they will be asked o submit abstracts that may make them eligible for poster or oral presentation. Finally, the program will be put through formative and summative assessments in Aim III in order to evaluate the success of the program. Graduating trainees will be tracked long-term to evaluate whether the training that they obtained through this program directed them pursue a career in biomedical research. This program is an essential step towards encouraging participation of minority pharmacy students in academic research, will help in contributing towards a diverse workforce in health-related research careers, and aid in fulfilling the mission of the NHLBI and NIH in expanding the representation of minority health practitioners in the research arena. (End of Abstract)

 描述（由申请人提供）：包括NIH在内的几个联邦和州机构已经认识到迫切需要扩大代表性不足的少数民族个人参与所有健康相关研究领域。为此，这些组织积极争取教育机构参与为少数群体学生提供从事和参与生物医学研究的途径。来自代表性不足的少数民族的研究人员的增加不仅有助于建立一支强大而多样化的劳动力队伍，还将有助于解决严重影响少数民族人口的心血管疾病，中风，糖尿病和肺部疾病等重要慢性病领域。该提案旨在在汉普顿大学药学院建立“学术研究暑期药学经验”项目，或简称SPEEP。该计划将为药学院的少数民族学生提供为期10周的强化实践研究培训课程。该计划将选择已成功完成药学院第一年的少数民族学生，并将他们安置在已确定的药物科学系指导教师的指导下的研究实验室。这些学员将在生物医学研究的几个领域接受指导，鼓励他们在导师的帮助下执行研究想法，并将一份简短的研究论文和摘要放在一起，在两个夏天的国家会议上发表。该计划的目的是，第一年将在汉普顿大学实验室完成，而第二个夏天返回的学生将被送往东弗吉尼亚医学院（EVMS）和西弗吉尼亚大学（WVU）的实验室进行更深入的研究。该培训计划的总体目标是培养这些少数民族学生从药学院毕业后追求未来健康相关研究的愿望。目的是确定和选择最合适的少数民族学生候选人参加夏季研究计划。目前，我们将在第一年培训六名学生，在随后的几年里，他们都将被安排在HU，EVMS或WVU的研究教师的指导下。在Aim II中，选定的学员将在该计划中参与多年，其中他们将在夏季10周内在教师导师的监督下生成研究提案，并将生成与该项目相关的初步实验数据。他们还将在研究的负责任的行为指示，并参加期刊俱乐部研讨会和案例介绍。在这个培训期结束时，学生将被要求生成一个简短的科学报告。学生将被鼓励 参加他们研究领域的地方或国家会议，在那里他们将被要求提交摘要，使他们有资格参加海报或口头报告。最后，该计划将通过目标III的形成性和总结性评估，以评估该计划的成功。毕业学员将被长期跟踪，以评估他们通过该计划获得的培训是否指导他们从事生物医学研究。该计划是鼓励少数民族药学专业学生参与学术研究的重要一步，将有助于促进健康相关研究职业的多元化劳动力，并有助于实现NHLBI和NIH的使命，扩大少数民族健康从业者在研究竞技场的代表性。(End摘要）