MCUAAAR Research Education Component

研究教育核心摘要 在生物医学和社会医学的各个层面上，少数民族都严重短缺， 行为科学工作者非洲裔美国人、拉丁裔和美洲原住民的 进入和完成大学，研究生院和专业学校的可能性。 此外，社会和生物医学科学的少数民族教师人数较少， 有可能获得终身职位或晋升到最高级别的学术职位。的问题之一 在文献中确定的，可以大大促进多样化的学术和生物， 医务人员是良师益友我们建议建立在一个行之有效的方法，“综合” 指导使MCUAAAR的试点调查员变得富有成效 研究人员和获得NIA/NIH资助。研究性教育的三个具体目标 项目内容（REC）包括：1）招募并选拔15名新的初级研究人员， 使用生物心理社会生命过程框架进行行为和社会科学研究的研究 2）协调短期和长期的指导，保留， 对这批少数民族初级研究人员的跟踪调查，他们的研究重点是社会问题， 和行为方面的身心健康和健康差距;和，3）行为 全年培训课程，并为研究调查人员和 为全国少数民族青年教师举办为期三天的暑期密集讲习班， 博士后学者我们已经制定了一个结构化的指导和教育过程， 其中包括个性化的发展计划，每月的综合和个人辅导， 会议，并在研究基础和健康差距的教育系列。我们 指导方法通过研究教育核心与 行政、社区联络和外联以及分析核心。MCUAAAR 教师已经制定了一个行之有效的战略，成功地指导初级研究人员， MCUAAR教师是非洲裔美国人生活过程领域的活跃研究人员 发育和衰老。基于这一良好的记录，密歇根研究中心 城市非裔美国人老龄化研究显然非常适合为 培养下一代RCMAR科学家。

Research Education Core Abstract There is a severe shortage of ethnic minorities at all levels of the bio-medical and social and behavioral sciences workforce. African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans have a lower likelihood of entering and completing college, graduate school, and professional schools. Additionally, ethnic minority faculty members in the social and bio-medical sciences are less likely to receive tenure or move to the highest levels of academic positions. One of the issues identified in the literature that may substantially facilitate diversifying the academic and bio- medical workforce is mentoring. We propose to build upon a proven method of “integrative” mentoring which has allowed pilot investigators in the MCUAAAR to become productive researchers and obtain NIA/NIH funding. The three specific aims of the Research Education Component (REC) include: 1) Recruit and select 15 new junior researchers who propose pilot studies using a biopsychosocial life-course framework for behavioral and social science studies of aging and health disparities; 2) Coordinate the short and long term mentoring, retention, and follow-up of this set of ethnic minority junior investigators whose research focuses on the social and behavioral aspects of physical and mental health and health disparities; and, 3) Conduct year-round training sessions, and implement curricula for research investigators and conduct intensive three-day summer workshops for a national audience of junior minority faculty and postdoctoral scholars. We have developed a structured mentoring and education process, which includes an individualized development plan, monthly integrative and individual mentoring sessions, and an educational series in research fundamentals and health disparities. Our mentoring approach is enhanced through the integration of the Research Education Core with the Administrative, Community Liaison and Outreach, and Analysis Cores. The MCUAAAR faculty have developed a proven strategy to successfully mentor junior researchers, and the MCUAAR faculty are active major researchers in the field of African American life-course development and aging. Based upon this proven track record, the Michigan Center for Research on Urban African American Aging Research is clearly well-suited to contribute to the development of the next generation of RCMAR scientists.