Cultivating Health & Aging Researchers by Integrating Science, Medicine & Aging

培养健康

• 批准号: 10618796
• 负责人: DAVID O MELTZER
• 金额: $ 33.69万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10618796
• 关键词: Acceleration; Address; Aging; Attitude; Award; Behavior; Career Choice; Chicago; Clinical; Clinical Research; Clinical Trials; Curriculum Management System; Data; Development; Educational Curriculum; Educational Status; Elderly; Encounter Groups; Ensure; Evaluation; Exposure to; Face; Familiarity; Family member; Funding; Future; Geriatrics; Health; Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice; Healthcare; High School Student; Hospitalization; Impaired cognition; Informed Consent; Knowledge; Measurement; Medical Students; Medicine; Mentors; Mentorship; Methods; Minority Groups; Modeling; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; Older Population; Outcome; Palliative Care; Participant; Patients; Persons; Policy Maker; Population; Population Heterogeneity; Productivity; Publications; Research; Research Personnel; Research Priority; Research Project Grants; Research Training; STEM career; STEM field; Science; Structure; Students; Testing; Time; Training; Training Programs; Underrepresented Minority; Underrepresented Populations; Underrepresented Students; Underserved Population; United States; Universities; Youth; aging population; career; career development; design; didactic education; ethnic diversity; experience; faculty mentor; frailty; functional disability; health care availability; health disparity; high school; human old age (65+); improved; insight; interest; matriculation; patient engagement; programs; racial diversity; recruit; research study; role model; satisfaction; science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine; skills; student participation; success; trend; undergraduate student

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The population of older adults in the United States is the largest and most racially and ethnically diverse the nation has ever known, and these trends are expected to continue or accelerate. To meet the increased healthcare needs of a diverse older adult population, it is important that the healthcare workforce represent the diversity of this population. A diverse healthcare workforce is important to expand healthcare access for underserved populations and to enrich the pool of leaders and policymakers with unique insights into and familiarity with the diverse healthcare needs of our aging population. This is especially true for clinical research, since researchers often rely on personal experience as they formulate and seek to answer research questions. Thus, broader representation of underrepresented minority leaders in the clinical research workforce can help ensure that research priorities appropriately address the needs of older minority groups. Despite the recognized need for a diverse clinical research workforce, students from underrepresented groups face significant barriers to pursuing training in clinical research for older adults. Students from underrepresented groups encounter financial, informational and cultural challenges that limit their interest and participation in medicine overall. Moreover, students from underrepresented groups may be less likely to pursue training in clinical research for older adults if they do not perceive such research as relevant to their lives. The University of Chicago (UC) is a leader in training future clinical researchers from underrepresented backgrounds, with a specific focus on aging through several NIA research training programs designed for students at different training levels. These training programs expose students to formal didactic curricula in aging and clinical research, multi-tiered mentorship teams that conduct clinical research in aging, and realistic career experiences in clinical research and aging. Our NIGMS-funded pipeline program for underrepresented Chicago public high school students has successfully increased the interest and intent in pursuing a career clinical research. Our NIA programs for medical students have successfully improved interest in aging research careers and research productivity of those trainees (i.e., publications and awards). Building on the success of our programs for diverse high school and medical students, we will leverage our experience training learners in aging research to build the Cultivating Health & Aging Researchers by Integrating Science, Medicine & Aging (CHARISMA) program, a structured longitudinal multi-tiered mentored aging-related research training program for undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds. The objectives of CHARISMA are 1) to prepare undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds for medicine, science, engineering, technology and mathematics (MSTEM) careers in aging-related clinical research, and 2) to increase and sustain learner satisfaction, aging-related research knowledge, attitudes toward aging-related clinical research careers, and behaviors associated with pursuing an aging-related research career in an MSTEM field among underrepresented undergraduates.

项目概要/摘要 美国老年人口数量最多，种族和民族最多样化 全国人民都知道，这些趋势预计将持续或加速。为满足日益增加的 多样化的老年人口的医疗保健需求，重要的是医疗保健人员代表了老年人口 该人群的多样性。多元化的医疗保健劳动力对于扩大医疗服务覆盖范围非常重要 服务不足的人群，并通过独特的见解和丰富的领导人和政策制定者的人才库 熟悉老龄化人口的多样化医疗保健需求。对于临床尤其如此 研究，因为研究人员在制定和寻求回答研究时经常依赖个人经验 问题。因此，临床研究中代表性不足的少数族裔领袖的代表性更广泛 劳动力可以帮助确保研究重点适当满足老年少数群体的需求。 尽管人们认识到需要多样化的临床研究人员，但来自代表性不足的学生 团体在接受老年人临床研究培训方面面临重大障碍。学生来自 代表性不足的群体面临着财务、信息和文化方面的挑战，限制了他们的兴趣和 整体参与医学。此外，来自代表性不足群体的学生可能不太可能 如果老年人认为此类研究与其自身无关，则应接受临床研究培训 生活。 芝加哥大学 (UC) 是培养来自代表性不足的未来临床研究人员的领导者 背景，通过几个 NIA 研究培训项目专门关注老龄化问题 不同训练水平的学生。这些培训项目让学生接触到正式的教学课程 老龄化与临床研究，开展老龄化临床研究的多层次导师团队，以及现实的 临床研究和衰老方面的职业经验。我们由 NIGMS 资助的针对代表性不足的管道计划 芝加哥公立高中学生成功提高了追求职业的兴趣和意图 临床研究。我们针对医学生的 NIA 项目成功提高了人们对衰老研究的兴趣 这些受训者的职业和研究生产力（即出版物和奖项）。 在我们针对多元化高中生和医学院学生的项目取得成功的基础上，我们将利用我们的 经验培训学习者进行衰老研究，以培养健康与衰老研究人员 整合科学、医学和老龄化 (CHARISMA) 计划，一个结构化的纵向多层计划 为来自弱势群体的本科生提供与老龄化相关的研究培训项目的指导。 CHARISMA 的目标是 1) 让来自代表性不足的背景的本科生做好准备 衰老相关临床领域的医学、科学、工程、技术和数学 (MSTEM) 职业 研究，2) 提高和维持学习者满意度、与衰老相关的研究知识、态度 与衰老相关的临床研究职业以及与追求衰老相关的行为相关的行为 代表性不足的本科生在 MSTEM 领域的研究生涯。