CWRU Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program

项目总结 研究生研究教育计划(PREP)是由美国国立卫生研究院(NIH)资助的 为来自不同背景、有兴趣获得科学博士学位的应届大学毕业生提供的计划 与生物医学研究相关的学科。PREP是一个以研究为重点的为期一年的结构化课程 竞争研究生院申请和为第一年的奖学金做准备所需的经验 研究生学历，博士或医学博士/博士学位。NIH Prep成立于2001年，目前有 全美至少有47个积极的预科项目。CasePREP，凯斯西部储备大学 俄亥俄州克利夫兰的(CWRU)Prep就是这些活跃的项目之一。 作为其现有课程的一部分，CasePREP鼓励和帮助培养学者-学者、学者-毕业生 通过包括社交在内的各种面对面机制建立学生和学者与教职员工之间的指导关系 活动、座谈会、会议、期刊俱乐部和课程。这些机制在整个过程中曾经是不变的 在2020年3月，随着确诊的SARS病例的出现，被取消或大幅重组- 冠状病毒-2感染导致CWRU所在地凯霍加县出现首例官方新冠肺炎病例。而当 州政府的居家命令是短暂的，并为研究提供了例外，对学员的影响既有 立竿见影、持久持久。现在影响到至少三个CasePREP学者队列，正在进行的大流行 揭示了开发和提供修订后的课程以包括与以下相关的新内容的迫切需要 复原力和其他个人健康和持续职业成功所需的非学术话题。 为了开发这一新内容，我们在本补编中建议利用现有的国家卫生研究所 (NIH)成为有韧性的科学家系列，由校内培训和教育办公室(OITE)提供。 网络研讨会系列和讨论包括以下主题：复原力和健康导论(第1单元)； 探索我们的自我对话：认知扭曲和冒名顶替者的恐惧(单元2)；自我倡导和自信 科学家(单元3)；发展反馈能力(单元4)；以及管理以最大限度地提供指导 人际关系(单元5)。所有的网络研讨会，每次两个小时，都可以通过YouTube点播。我们 将增加网络研讨会系列，将于2024年春季向CasePREP学者提供阅读材料 具体到一个小时的面对面讨论组的每个主题。我们还将提供2023-2024年的案例 学者获得大学健康和咨询服务。新课程内容的影响 并将使用心理测量前和心理测量后的调查对获得扩大的服务的机会进行量化衡量，如 以及通过转录的小组访谈进行定性测量。我们将推广这门新课程 年度生物医学研究摘要提交的评估内容和计划 小规模科学家会议(ABRCMS)和同行评议的评估结果 已出版的手稿。新的课程内容将被传播和传递给至少两个现有的 CWRU的培训计划，所有CWRU和非CWRU的培训计划都可以通过我们发布的 科学文献和CWRU准备网站上的材料。

PROJECT SUMMARY The Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) is a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded program for recent college graduates from diverse backgrounds interested in earning a PhD in scientific disciplines related to biomedical research. PREP is a one-year structured program focused on research experiences needed for competitive graduate school applications and preparing Scholars for the first years of graduate school with PhD or MD/PhD programs. NIH PREP was established in 2001, and today there are at least 47 active PREP programs across the United States. CasePREP, the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) PREP in Cleveland, Ohio, is one of those active programs. As part of its existing curriculum, CasePREP encourages and helps foster Scholar-Scholar, Scholar-graduate student, and Scholar-faculty mentoring connections through a variety of in-person mechanisms including social events, symposia, conferences, journal clubs, and classes. These mechanisms, once constant throughout the academic year, were eliminated or drastically reformatted in March 2020 with the confirmed cases of SARS- CoV-2 infections resulting in the first official COVID-19 cases in Cuyahoga County, home of CWRU. While the state’s stay-at-home order was short lived and provided exceptions to research, the impact on trainees was both immediate and long-lasting. Now impacting at least three CasePREP Scholar cohorts, the ongoing pandemic has revealed a crucial need for the development and delivery of revised curriculum to include new content related to resiliency and other non-academic topics needed for personal wellness and sustained career success. To develop this new content, we propose in this supplement to leverage the existing National Institute of Health (NIH) Becoming a Resilient Scientist Series, offered by the Office of Intramural Training & Education (OITE). The webinar series and discussions cover the following topics: Introduction to Resilience and Wellness (Unit 1); Exploring our Self-Talk: Cognitive Distortions and Imposter Fears (Unit 2); Self-Advocacy and Assertiveness for Scientists (Unit 3); Developing Feedback Resilience (Unit 4); and Managing Up to Maximize Mentoring Relationships (Unit 5). All webinars, each two hours in length, are available on-demand through YouTube. We will augment the webinar series, to be delivered to CasePREP Scholars in Spring 2024, with reading material specific to each topic for the one-hour in-person discussion groups. We will also offer 2023-2024 CasePREP Scholars access to the University Health and Counseling Services. The impact of the new curriculum content and access to expanded services will be quantitatively measured using pre- and post- psychometric surveys as well as qualitatively measured through transcribed small group interviews. We will disseminate the new course content and plans for assessment through an abstract submission at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) and results of the assessment through a peer-reviewed published manuscript. The new curriculum content will be disseminated and delivered to at least two existing training programs at CWRU and be available to all CWRU and non-CWRU training program via our published materials in the scientific literature and the CWRU PREP website.