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人类健康的复杂科学问题是必要的。 今天的社会。多样性提高了研究质量，多样化的团队以利用创新和 不同的观点，以超越非多样化的团队。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机会， 通过增加参与个体的多样性和改善研究， 努力本科和研究生院之间的职业过渡可能特别难以驾驭。 发现学士后研究教育计划（PREP）的目标是提供个人从 具有丰富的研究经验和技能发展课程/讲习班的不同背景，以促进 他们在生物医学博士研究生课程中的过渡和成功。Discovery PREP启动于 2010年，2016年续延，并在参与者薪金方面一直得到强有力的机构支持， 差旅费、考试准备和方案支持。该计划的总体成功率良好，84% 自2016年以来，在PREP内接受博士研究生课程的学者。此次竞争性更新旨在 利用最近的成功，增加学者的培训和支持，通过动手接触， 在竞争激烈的实验室进行指导，开展循证活动，以支持专业和个人 技能发展，总结性和形成性评估，以确定该计划对学者的影响 科学自我效能感、科学认同感和学术研究企业归属感。总的来说， 这些努力将培养出一批充满激情、高效、高技能的受训者，从而增强多样性 促进创新解决方案，以应对卫生领域坚韧的科学挑战 今日关怀

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.