ToxMSDT: An Innovative Toxicology Pathway mentoring program targeting underrepresented STEM students

ToxMSDT：针对代表性不足的 STEM 学生的创新毒理学途径指导计划

• 批准号: 10472735
• 负责人: Jodi A. Flaws
• 金额: $ 24.88万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-16 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10472735
• 关键词: Address; Admission activity; Adverse effects; African American population; Alaska Native; Animals; Area; Awareness; Behavioral Research; Biomedical Research; California; Case Study; Chemicals; Clinical Research; Collaborations; Complement; Computers; Country; Critical Thinking; Development; Discipline; Diverse Workforce; Educational Activities; Engineering; Enrollment; Environment; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Health; Environmental Science; Ethics; Exercise; Funding Mechanisms; Funding Opportunities; Future; General Population; Goals; Government; Graduate Education; Health; Health Sciences; Hispanic Americans; Human; Individual; Industry; Institution; Internet; Internships; Iowa; Knowledge; Latino Population; Link; Mentors; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; Ohio; Organism; Outcome; Pathway interactions; Policies; Population; Problem Solving; Reproducibility; Research; Research Personnel; Role; STEM student; Schools; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Scientist; Societies; Solid; Source; Structure; Student recruitment; Students; Toxicology; Training; Training Activity; Training Programs; Underrepresented Populations; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Woman; Workplace; career; design; disadvantaged background; experience; flexibility; handheld mobile device; innovation; interest; job market; novel strategies; online course; online delivery; outreach program; programs; recruit; responsible research conduct; scale up; skill acquisition; skills; skills training; student training; success; undergraduate student

Project Summary The goal of the NIMG R25 IPERT program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs. This funding opportunity encourages activities and outreach programs with a primary focus on courses for skills development, structured mentoring activities, and outreach programs to create a highly skilled and diverse workforce. A major challenge facing the toxicology profession is a lack of a diversified workforce. Although the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has recognized this problem for many years and indeed has tried to address it through different funding mechanisms, the number of underrepresented individuals in the toxicology profession remains disappointingly low. Therefore, a new approach is needed to close the gap. One of the shortcomings of recruiting undergraduates into the toxicology graduate research programs is a lack of undergraduate toxicology training programs in the country. Toxicology is taught starting at graduate level. Because of the lack of awareness and knowledge about toxicology and its role in the protection of human, animal, and environmental health, undergraduates with interest in pursuing graduate education naturally will not consider it as an option. UC Davis in Davis, CA, in partnership with The Society of Toxicology (SOT), are collaborating with Iowa State University (ISU) in Ames, IA , Tuskegee University (TU), Tuskegee, AL, and The Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus OH, to deliver a one-year long undergraduate toxicology mentoring and skills development training (ToxMSDT) program. ToxMSDT has two specific aims. Specific Aim #1: Delivery of a mentoring program to underrepresented undergraduate students enrolled in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Specific Aim #2: Delivery of an online training program consisting of case studies and short e-modules for skills development. This innovative flexible online program is accessible on mobile devices as well as from computers connected to the internet and is open to the general public 24/7. In this regard, this is a unique toxicology outreach program. We propose increase enrollment to 20 undergraduate students each year and to expand recruitment nationally, inclusive of all underrepresented segments of the US population. Expected outcomes of this unique training program include: a) at least 65% of program alumni engaging in subsequent research programs, internships or other relevant activities in toxicology or a related area in the biomedical sciences professions; b) at least 50% of program alumni applying to toxicology, or related biomedical sciences graduate programs or joining the toxicology workforce; c) a sustained network of toxicology students, researchers and professionals committed to expanding toxicology mentoring and career opportunities for underrepresented segments of the US population.

项目摘要 NIMG R25 IPERT计划的目标是支持补充和/或增强 培训劳动力以满足国家的生物医学、行为和临床研究需求。这 资助机会鼓励以技能课程为主要重点的活动和外展计划 发展、有组织的指导活动和外展计划，以创建高度熟练和多样化的 劳动力。毒物学专业面临的一个主要挑战是缺乏多元化的劳动力。尽管 美国国家环境健康科学研究所(NIEHS)多年来一直认识到这个问题，并 事实上，已经试图通过不同的筹资机制来解决这个问题，人数不足的人 毒物学专业的个人数量仍然低得令人失望。因此，需要一种新的方法来 缩小差距。招收本科生进入毒理学研究生研究的不足之一 项目是全国缺乏本科生毒理学培训项目。毒物学是从 在研究生阶段。由于缺乏对毒理学的认识和知识，以及它在 保护人类、动物和环境健康，本科生有兴趣攻读研究生 教育自然不会把它作为一种选择。加州大学戴维斯分校，与 毒理学(SOT)，正在与爱荷华州立大学(ISU)在艾姆斯，IA，塔斯基吉大学(TU)， 俄勒冈州塔斯基吉和俄亥俄州立大学(OSU)，哥伦布，俄亥俄州，提供为期一年的本科生 毒理学辅导和技能发展培训(ToxMSDT)计划。ToxMSDT有两个具体目标。 具体目标#1：向入学人数不足的本科生提供辅导计划 科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)。具体目标2：提供在线培训计划 包括案例研究和用于技能发展的简短电子模块。这一创新灵活的在线计划 可在移动设备上访问，也可从连接到互联网的计算机访问，并向一般用户开放 在这方面，这是一个独特的毒理学外展计划。我们建议把招生人数增加到20人 每年招收本科生，并在全国范围内扩大招生范围，包括所有任职人数不足的人 美国人口的一部分。这一独特培训方案的预期结果包括：a)至少65% 参加后续研究计划、实习或其他相关活动的计划校友 毒理学或生物医学专业的相关领域；b)至少50%的项目校友申请 毒理学或相关生物医学研究生课程或加入毒理学工作队伍；c)a 致力于扩展毒理学的毒理学学生、研究人员和专业人员的持续网络 为美国人口中代表性不足的部分提供指导和职业机会。