Ohio State University Discovery PREP for Biomedical Research

摘要： 生物医学研究队伍的多样性对于解决影响 今天的社会。多样性提高了研究质量，众所周知，不同的团队利用创新和 以不同的视角超越非多元化的团队。然而，来自某些群体的个人仍然 在生物医学研究中的代表性不足。这为科学界提供了一个加强 通过增加参与个体的多样性和改进研究来培养生物医学研究队伍 努力。在本科生和研究生之间的职业过渡可能特别困难。 发现型本科毕业后研究教育计划(PREP)的目标是为来自 具有丰富的研究经验和技能发展课程/研讨会的不同背景，以促进 他们进入生物医学博士研究生项目并在其中取得成功。发现准备工作启动于 2010年，于2016年续签，并在参与者工资方面一直得到强有力的机构支持， 旅行资金、考试准备和方案支持。该项目的总体成功率很好，达到了84% 自2016年以来，在预科阶段被博士研究生项目录取的学者比例。这种竞争性的更新寻求 利用最近的成功并增加学者培训和支持，通过亲身实践和 在竞争激烈的实验室进行指导，开展循证活动，支持专业和个人 技能发展，以及终结性和形成性评估，以确定该计划对学者的影响 学术研究企业中的科学自我效能感、科学认同感和归属感。总的来说， 这些努力将造就一批热情、有效和高技能的实习生，这将增强多样性 并促进创新解决方案，以应对卫生领域严峻的科学挑战 今天就关心一下。

ABSTRACT: Diversity in the biomedical research workforce is necessary to solve the complex scientific problems that affect society today. Diversity improves research quality and diverse teams are known to capitalize on innovation and distinct perspectives to outperform non-diverse teams. Yet, individuals from certain groups remain underrepresented in biomedical research. This provides the scientific community with an opportunity to enhance the biomedical research workforce by increasing the diversity of participating individuals and improve research efforts. The career transition between undergraduate and graduate school can be especially difficult to navigate. The goal of Discovery Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) is to provide individuals from diverse backgrounds with robust research experience and courses/workshops for skills development to promote their transition into and success within biomedical PhD graduate programs. Discovery PREP was initiated in 2010, renewed in 2016, and has consistently received strong institutional support in terms of participant salary, travel funds, test preparation, and programmatic support. The overall success of the program is good, with 84% of scholars accepted into PhD graduate programs while within PREP since 2016. This competitive renewal seeks to leverage recent successes and increase scholar training and support, through hands-on exposure and mentoring in highly competitive laboratories, evidence-informed activities to support professional and personal skills development, and summative and formative evaluations to establish the impact of the program on scholar science self-efficacy, science identity, and sense of belonging within the academic research enterprise. Overall, these efforts will create a cohort of passionate, effective, and highly skilled trainees that will enhance the diversity of the scientific community and promote innovative solutions to address the tough scientific challenges in health care today.