PiNBAC: The Program in Neuroscience Post-Baccalaureate Training Program

PiNBAC：神经科学学士后培训计划

• 批准号: 10611213
• 负责人: JOHN ASSAD
• 金额: $ 24.3万
• 依托单位: HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-05 至 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10611213
• 关键词: Academic skills; Academic support; Address; Admission activity; Advisory Committees; Area; Awareness; Brain; Career Choice; Data; Data Analyses; Development; Disparity population; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Education Gap; Educational Curriculum; Event; Experimental Designs; Exposure to; Faculty; Feedback; Funding; Future; Hand; Journals; Laboratories; Leadership; Learning; Mentors; Mentorship; Methodology; Neurobiology; Neurosciences; Neurosciences Research; Outcome; Participant; Population; Postbaccalaureate; Reproducibility; Research; Research Design; Research Ethics; Research Support; Research Training; Role; Science; Students; Surveys; System; Talents; Testing; Training; Training Programs; Training and Infrastructure; Underrepresented Minority; Underrepresented Populations; Underrepresented Students; Underserved Population; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; education resources; experience; falls; graduate school; grasp; higher education; innovation; interest; longitudinal course; matriculation; medical schools; member; next generation; pedagogical content; peer; programs; responsible research conduct; skills; stem; success; undergraduate student

Project Summary Although there is a robust training infrastructure in the neurosciences that is supported by NIH, there remain several important opportunities for increasing the representation of underrepresented minorities and other historically disadvantaged groups in brain science. There is a population of undergraduates with formal training in the neurosciences (obtained via classroom-based work) who nevertheless have not had the opportunity for a high-quality, longitudinal research experience. This same population frequently also lacks access to the relevant mentorship required for success in applying to graduate school and then subsequently for success in neuroscience research. Because longitudinal research experience is arguably one of the few traditional admissions criteria that predict future success in graduate school, many applicants that lack such experience are denied admission to graduate school on this basis alone. There therefore exists an educational gap, one we propose to address here through PiNBAC, the Harvard Program in Neuroscience post- baccalaureate program. Through the support of the Department of Neurobiology and the T32-funded Harvard PhD Program in Neuroscience (PiN), PiNBAC was started in 2021 with an inaugural class of seven total scholars; two of these scholars applied to graduate school this year (one will matriculate to Harvard, the other to Yale), with the remaining five to apply in the fall. The initial iteration of PiNBAC included a substantial research experience in which each scholar was asked to make an intellectual contribution to a project (rather than solely serving in a technical support role), substantial mentorship both in applying to graduate school and in the “hidden curriculum” of higher education and scientific training, integration of PiN graduate programming to enhance PiNBAC training, and a specific longitudinal course to give each scholar space to reflect and learn more about science from their peers. Informal feedback and early survey results suggest that the initial version of PiNBAC has been a success: feedback from students and mentors reveals both that the program addresses a clear gap in available educational resources, and that participants feel the program is effective at making a difference. Here we propose to further develop PiNBAC, and to build on its strengths, by expanding the formal neuroscience-specific curriculum offered to scholars. PiNBAC is rooted in an innovative data-driven pedagogical approach that has been very successfully piloted in the last year. It is our hope that through this application we can help to build the next generation of diverse leaders in the field.

项目摘要 尽管NIH支持神经科学中有强大的培训基础设施 仍然是增加代表人数不足的少数族裔的几个重要机会， 其他历史上令人不安的脑科学群体。有正式的本科生 但是，在神经科学的培训（通过基于课堂的工作获得），尽管如此 获得高质量，纵向研究经验的机会。同样的人口也经常缺乏 访问成功申请研究生院所需的相关精神验证，然后 在神经科学研究方面的成功。因为纵向研究经验可以说是少数几个 传统的入学标准预测了研究生院未来成功的传统录取标准，许多缺乏这样的申请人 仅在此基础上，经验就会被拒绝入学。因此有教育 GAP，我们建议在这里通过Pinbac（神经科学后的哈佛计划）来解决。 学士学位计划。通过神经生物学系和T32资助的哈佛大学的支持 Pinbac在神经科学（PIN）的博士学位课程始于2021年 学者；这些学者中有两家今年适用于研究生院（一个将矩阵矩阵哈佛，另一个将 到耶鲁大学），其余五个在秋天适用。 Pinbac的初始迭代包括大量 要求每所学校为项目做出智力贡献的研究经验（而 不仅仅是扮演技术支持角色），在申请研究生院和 在高等教育和科学培训的“隐藏课程”中，PIN研究生编程的整合 为了增强Pinbac培训，以及一个特定的纵向课程，以提供每个学校空间以反思和学习 有关科学的更多信息。非正式反馈和早期调查结果表明初始版本 Pinbac的成功是成功的：学生和导师的反馈都揭示了该计划所说的 可用教育资源的明显差距，参与者认为该计划有效地使 不同之处。在这里，我们建议通过扩展形式进一步发展Pinbac，并以其优势发展 为学者提供了特定于神经科学的课程。 Pinbac植根于创新的数据驱动 去年已经非常成功地进行了教学方法。我们希望通过这个 应用程序我们可以帮助建立该领域的下一代不同领导者。