Vanderbilt Experimental Research Training Inclusion Community Engagement Skills (VERTICES)

项目摘要 在这个新的应用程序中，我们提出了一个独特的培训经验，建立在范德比尔特 大学（VU）的研究，培训和促进生物医学多样性的非凡记录 科学，并寻求创造一个新的范式，促进生物医学科学的途径 职业和理想的生活选择的骨干代表性不足，学士后学者。 该计划提供了一个智力，社会和文化有益的经验， 在为期12个月的培训计划中，我们会利用似曾相识的训练 专业知识，培养知识和研究技能，并提供综合培训计划 通过促进项目参与者及其研究之间的联系来支持弹性 导师、同伴和各自的社区。一个强大的多PI领导团队组成 在科学研究、指导、包容和技能方面具有重叠专长的高级人员 发展，学员参与，并培养多元化学者的社区。这支球队是 得到内部和外部董事会成员的支持，并表现出对培训的承诺， 多样性我们将为精心挑选的学者提供一个研究密集型的沉浸， 年我们杰出的导师池有一个与一致的研究兴趣的多样性， NIGMS的使命。除了激烈的，指导性的研究经验，我们将提供 独特的视角和资源，提供了一个富有成效的框架，以充分了解 科学发现的前景和过程，并促进 学者和他们的导师和社区。我们认为，学者，尤其是那些 来自代表性不足的群体，也必须接受培训，了解如何将他们的工作与更大的 社区他们必须意识到并了解塑造公众 对科学的看法以及如何在代表性不足和 多数社区。我们的总体目标是雄心勃勃和创新;我们寻求创造学者 这将成为整合者，需要通过他们的科学与社区联系起来。 学历，建立和保持信任的能力，以及文化能力技能。我们 将通过以下方式实现这一愿景：密集的研究和培训沉浸式体验， 辅导作为核心组成部分;定期有机会与同龄人互动， 协作、团队合作和个人充实的核心价值观;以及面向公众 对科学、教育、政策和社会变革的认识。因此，我们将共同提供一个 令人兴奋的和全面的经验，少数民族学者准备作出职业定义，生活- 改变决策，对全国的科学事业产生未来影响。

Project Summary In this new application we propose a unique training experience that builds upon Vanderbilt University's (VU) extraordinary record of research, training, and fostering diversity in biomedical science and that seeks to create a new paradigm promoting the pathway to biomedical science careers and aspirational life choices for a cadre of underrepresented, postbaccalaureate scholars. This program provides an intellectually, socially and culturally rewarding experience to engage scholars at multiple levels throughout a 12 month training program. We will leverage VU's training expertise to cultivate knowledge and research skills and provide an integrated training program that supports resilience by fostering connections among program participants and their research mentors, peers, and respective communities. A strong multiple-PI leadership team is composed of senior individuals with overlapping expertise in scientific research, mentoring, inclusion, skill development, trainee engagement, and fostering a community of diverse scholars. This team is supported by internal and external board members with demonstrated commitment to training and diversity. We will provide a research intensive immersion for carefully-selected scholars each year. Our pool of distinguished mentors have a diversity of research interests that are aligned with the mission of NIGMS. In addition to an intense, mentored research experience, we will offer unique perspectives and resources, provide a productive framework to fully understand the promise and process of scientific discovery, and foster invaluable connections among scholars and their mentors and communities. We posit that scholars, most especially those from underrepresented groups, must also be trained in how to relate their work to the larger community. They must be aware and knowledgeable of the forces shaping the public's perception of science and how to shape the scientific narrative in both underrepresented and majority communities. Our overall goal is ambitious and innovative; we seek to create scholars that will become the integrators needed to connect science with communities through their academic credentials, ability to build and retain trust, and cultural competence skills. We will fulfill this vision through: an intensive research and training immersion experience, with mentoring as a central component; regular opportunities to interact with their peers and acquire the core values of collaboration, teamwork and personal enrichment; and exposure to the public awareness of science, education, policy and social change. Together, we will thus provide an exciting and comprehensive experience to minority scholars poised to make career-defining, life- changing decisions with future implications for the scientific enterprise across the nation.