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

项目总结/摘要 在阿肯色州，来自代表性不足（UR）群体的大学毕业生人数很少， 少数UR学生全国谁在生物科学毕业，结果在UR的一个小池 学生进入阿肯色州的生物医学研究领域。为了解决这一问题，大学 阿肯色州医学科学（UAMS）最大限度地提高学生发展（IMSD）计划的倡议是 创建于2009年，提供全面的从头到尾的指导和培训计划，包括2 年的支持（工资，学费，费用）为UR学生攻读生物医学博士学位。的总目标 UAMS IMSD计划是为了提高我们对UR学生保留成功率， 招募更多UR学生的战略。具体的可衡量目标是90%的IMSD学生 完成博士学位。第一个目标是每年招收6名新的UR博士生。我们将 加强招聘活动，吸引UR学生参加UAMS和IMSD计划。该方案最近 扩大到接受来自3个博士课程的学生（跨学科生物医学研究生课程 科学，生物医学信息学和制药科学），其中两个是在过去5年内开始的 年目标2是保留和毕业90%的学生在IMSD计划。成功将建立在 过去的保留，通过加强博士夏季过渡计划的录取学生，扩大学生 发展和保留活动，并加强我们的指导计划。最终目的是确定 计划的组成部分有助于学生的成功，哪些领域需要改进，并传播 结果为了确定对过去的成功做出贡献的计划组件，并阐明改进的方法， 该计划将进行评估，结果将通过以下方式传播到UAMS校园和其他学校 网站、通讯、演讲和出版物。在此提出的倡议可有助于 全球招聘，保留，并在UAMS所有UR学生毕业，并提供经验教训，以其他 机构，这将最终增加UR教师和研究人员在生物医学领域的人数 为阿肯色州和国家服务的科学工作者。

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.