Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program at UC Davis

加州大学戴维斯分校学士后研究教育项目

• 批准号: 10559688
• 负责人: JOANNA Chungyen CHIU
• 金额: $ 43.2万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2027-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10559688
• 关键词: Area; Award; Benchmarking; Biomedical Research; Biotechnology; California; Color; Communication; Communities; Country; Coupled; Critical Thinking; Development; Development Plans; Doctor of Philosophy; Doctor' s Degree; Educational workshop; Engineering; Enrollment; Environment; Ethics; Exercise; Exposure to; Faculty; Fellowship; First Generation College Students; Fostering; Funding; Future Generations; Goals; Grant; Individual; Institution; Interview; Journals; Knowledge; Laboratories; Laboratory Research; Latinx; Learning; Life; Literature; Medicine; Mentors; Mentorship; Outcome; Positioning Attribute; Postbaccalaureate; Postdoctoral Fellow; Problem Solving; Public Health; Publications; Qualifying; Readiness; Recommendation; Reproducibility; Research; Research Ethics; Research Personnel; Research Proposals; Science; Scientist; Self Assessment; Self Perception; Social skills development; Students; Technical Expertise; Testing; Time; Training; Transcript; Underrepresented Populations; Underrepresented Students; United States National Academy of Sciences; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Writing; academic preparation; base; career; career development; design; disadvantaged background; doctoral student; education research; empowerment; equity, diversity, and inclusion; experience; graduate school; graduate student; innovation; laboratory experiment; marginalized population; member; men; oral communication; programs; role model; skills; student retention; success; supportive environment; symposium; undergraduate student

SUMMARY Students from under-represented populations and/or disadvantaged backgrounds disproportionately fail to enter biomedical research at a PhD level, potentially because they lack research experience or self-identity as scientists. The long-term goal of PREP at UC Davis (PREP@UCD) is to prepare young scholars from these groups to succeed as academics and leaders in research. Specifically, we aim to provide PREP scholars with the research, communication, analytical, and life skills required to excel in doctoral programs in the biomedical sciences. We have reached our benchmark; 12 of 14 PREP@UCD alumni have been accepted to top biomedical PhD programs, with four alumni awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships to fund PhD study. Thus, PREP@UCD is significant because we successfully foster an inclusive scientific training culture that has led to retaining students from historically marginalized groups in biomedical science at the bachelors-to- graduate school interface and in PhD programs. The University of California, Davis, is an innovative setting for a PREP program because it combines high research funding from the NIH (over $250 million last year), high academic ranking (11th best public university in the country), and commitment to serving underrepresented (27% of undergraduates and 20% of biomedical PhD students) and first-generation students (42%). Six PREP scholars annually will participate in research (75%) and career development activities (25%) under the close guidance of a mentorship team consisting of research supervisors, a faculty advisor, the PI, and the program coordinator. Three specific aims are proposed to prepare PREP@UCD scholars for biomedical graduate programs. First, PREP will provide a mentored research environment where scholars can gain experience in performing individual, hypothesis-driven research. This will help to develop their self-images as scientists and thus foster success in graduate school. Second, PREP@UCD scholars will be trained in experimental skills to prepare them for graduate school and a career in biomedical research. Laboratory activities will develop skills in gathering scientific information, formulating and testing hypotheses, working in a team, solving problems critically, assessing research ethics and values, and learning technical skills. Third, PREP@UCD scholars will be empowered with strong professional skills. Each scholar will spend 25% of their effort in career development through communication exercises, grant writing, journal clubs, participation in research conferences, and workshops in professional skills, careers in biomedical science, ethics, rigor, and reproducibility. The skills and scientific self-identity fostered during PREP@UCD will provide the scholars with a better chance of excelling in biomedical PhD programs. The combination of the research expertise and mentoring experience of the trainers, and a focus on self-identity as a scientist in the laboratory, coupled with broad professional development activities in a supportive environment, makes the overall approach of PREP@UCD significant and innovative.

总结 来自代表性不足的人口和/或弱势背景的学生不成比例地未能 进入生物医学研究在博士水平，可能是因为他们缺乏研究经验或自我认同， 科学家PREP在加州大学戴维斯分校（PREP@UCD）的长期目标是准备从这些年轻学者 团体成功的学者和领导者的研究。具体来说，我们的目标是为PREP学者提供 研究，沟通，分析和生活技能需要在生物医学博士课程中脱颖而出 以理工科为重我们已经达到了我们的基准; 14个PREP@UCD校友中有12个被接受为顶级 生物医学博士课程，与四名校友授予NSF研究生研究奖学金，以资助博士研究。 因此，PREP@UCD是重要的，因为我们成功地培养了一个包容性的科学培训文化， 导致保留学生从历史上边缘化的群体在生物医学科学在学士学位， 研究生院接口和博士课程。加州大学戴维斯分校是一个创新的环境， 一个PREP项目，因为它结合了美国国立卫生研究院的高额研究资金（去年超过2.5亿美元）， 高学术排名（全国第11名最好的公立大学），并致力于服务 代表性不足（27%的本科生和20%的生物医学博士生）和第一代 学生（42%）。每年将有六名PREP学者参与研究（75%）和职业发展 活动（25%）的指导下，由研究主管，教师， 顾问，PI和项目协调员。提出了三个具体目标，以准备PREP@UCD 生物医学研究生课程的学者。首先，PREP将提供一个有指导的研究环境， 学者可以在进行个人的、假设驱动的研究中获得经验。这将有助于发展 他们作为科学家的自我形象，从而促进研究生院的成功。第二，PREP@UCD学者将 接受实验技能培训，为他们进入研究生院和从事生物医学研究做好准备。 实验室活动将培养收集科学信息、制定和检验假设的技能， 在团队中工作，批判性地解决问题，评估研究道德和价值观，并学习技术 skills.第三，PREP@UCD学者将被赋予强大的专业技能。每一位学者都将花费 25%的努力在职业发展，通过沟通练习，赠款写作，杂志俱乐部， 参加研究会议和专业技能讲习班，从事生物医学科学， 伦理、严谨和可重复性。在PREP@UCD期间培养的技能和科学自我认同将提供 在生物医学博士课程中有更好机会取得优异成绩的学者。研究的结合 培训员的专业知识和指导经验，并侧重于作为科学家的自我认同， 实验室，加上广泛的专业发展活动，在一个支持性的环境，使 PREP@UCD的整体方法具有重要意义和创新性。