The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Initiative for Maximizing Student Development Program

项目摘要/摘要 来自阿肯色州代表不足(UR)群体的大学毕业生人数较少，加上 全国生物科学专业毕业的UR学生人数较少，导致UR人数较少 学生进入阿肯色州的生物医学研究领域。为了解决这一不足，加州大学 阿肯色州医学科学(UAMS)最大限度促进学生发展(IMSD)计划的倡议 创建于2009年，旨在提供全面的自始至终的指导和培训计划，包括2 为攻读生物医学博士学位的UR学生提供多年的支持(工资、学费、费用)。的总体目标 UAMS IMSD计划是为了提高我们对UR学生的留学成功率，并改进 招收更多UR学生的战略。具体的可测量目标是90%的IMSD学生 完成博士学位。第一个目标是每年招收6名密歇根大学博士生。我们会 加强招生活动，吸引UR学生进入UAMS和IMSD项目。最近的节目 扩大招收3个博士生项目(跨学科生物医学研究生项目 科学、生物医学信息学和制药科学)，其中两个是在过去5年内启动的 好几年了。目标2是留住并毕业IMSD项目90%的学生。成功将建立在 通过加强博士生暑期过渡计划留住过去，扩大学生规模 发展和保留活动，并加强我们的指导计划。最终目标是确定哪一个 计划的组成部分有助于学生的成功以及哪些方面需要改进，并传播 结果。为了确定对过去的成功做出贡献的计划组成部分并阐明改进的方法， 该计划将接受评估，结果将通过以下途径传播到UAMS校园和其他学校 网站、时事通讯、演示文稿和出版物。这里提出的倡议可以有助于 UAMS所有UR学生的全球招聘、留住和毕业，并向其他人提供经验教训 机构，这最终将增加UR在生物医学领域的教职员工和研究人员的数量 为阿肯色州和全国服务的科学工作者。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The low number of college graduates from underrepresented (UR) groups in Arkansas, together with the small number of UR students nationally who graduate in the biological sciences, results in a small pool of UR students entering fields of biomedical research in Arkansas. To address this shortfall, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) Program was created in 2009 to provide a comprehensive start-to-finish mentoring and training program that includes 2 years of support (salary, tuition, fees) for UR students pursuing biomedical PhD degrees. The overall goals of the UAMS IMSD Program are to enhance our retention success with regard to UR students and to refine strategies to recruit additional UR students. The specific measureable objective is for 90% of IMSD students to complete the doctoral degree. The first Aim is to matriculate 6 new UR doctoral students each year. We will enhance recruitment activities to attract UR students to UAMS and the IMSD Program. The Program recently expanded to accept students from 3 doctoral programs (Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences, Biomedical Informatics, and Pharmaceutical Sciences) two of which were started within the last 5 years. Aim 2 is to retain and graduate 90% of the students in the IMSD Program. Success will be built upon past retention by enhancing the PhD Summer Transition Program for matriculated students, expanding student development and retention activities, and enhancing our mentoring plan. The final Aim is to determine which program components contribute to student success and which areas need improvement, and disseminate the results. To identify the program components that contributed to past success and elucidate ways to improve, the program will be evaluated and results will be disseminated to the UAMS campus and other schools through the website, newsletters, presentations, and publications. The initiatives proposed here can contribute to the global recruitment, retention, and graduation of all UR students at UAMS and provide lessons learned to other institutions, which will ultimately increase the numbers of UR faculty and investigators in the biomedical science workforce serving Arkansas and the nation.