Mechanisms for Enhancing Scholarly Achievements (MESA)

描述(由申请人提供)：提高学术成就的机制(MESA)摘要这项随机、受控的前瞻性队列纵向研究的目的是增加对各种机制的理解，这些机制有助于将参加临床研究项目(医学、护理、牙科、专职卫生和公共卫生)的不同学术健康科学中心研究生转变为有计划地追求临床研究科学家的职业。这项旨在建立跨学科研究团队的一系列综合干预措施的初始测试框架以认知学习理论为假设基础，指定了个人和组织资源，使其有可能实现预期的学术成就目标，尽管进入团队科学学习框架时会暴露于学习焦虑和不确定性。理论知情干预策略包括以下内容：“动机方向和力量干预，以促进个人研究职业目标的发展；”将学生的参与与跨学科研究团队联系起来的教职和社区辅导员队伍；“研究团队建设支持，以促进协作和健康竞争；”个人能力建设基本认知技能(解决问题、认知重组、延迟满足和对自我的信念相对于研究自我效能)；“参与五个学期的团队研究项目，旨在促进弱势人群的健康/恢复；”“一系列学者研讨会(跨越五个学期)聚焦于基本的研究内容和熟练程度。五个目标和10个相互关联的假设解决了对拟议学习过程的结果和建模的测试，该过程以激励者的方向和力量开始，以学术活动和职业生涯规划结束。 公共卫生相关性：对影响少数群体追求研究事业的因素知之甚少。拟议的研究将增加已知的关键因素，即促进回国攻读医学、护理、牙科、专职卫生和公共卫生研究生学位的少数群体取得成功研究生涯的机制。有证据支持的干预措施证明有能力增加少数族裔临床研究人员的数量，其潜在影响是有可能更快、更有效地培养出一支更好地满足弱势人群健康需求的研究队伍。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Mechanisms for Enhancing Scholarly Achievements (MESA) Abstract The purpose of this randomized, controlled prospective-cohort-longitudinal study is to increase understanding of the mechanisms that contribute to the transition of a diverse group of Academic Health Science Center graduate students who are enrolled in clinical programs of study (medicine, nursing, dentistry, allied health, and public health) into planned pursuit of a clinical research scientist career. The framework for this initial test of an integrated series of interventions designed to build interdisciplinary research teams has a cognitive learning theory assumptive base specifying intra-person and organization resources that make it possible to reach desired scholarly achievement goals despite exposure to learning anxiety and uncertainty that accompanies entry into a team science learning frame. The theory informed intervention strategies incorporate the following elements: " Motivation direction and strength interventions to foster the development of personal research career goals; " Faculty and community mentor pool that link student participation with an interdisciplinary research team; " Research team building support to promote collaboration and healthy competition; " Individual capacity building essential cognitive skills (problem solving, cognitive reframing, delay in gratification and belief in self relative to research self-efficacy); " Participation across five semesters in team-based research projects directed toward health promotion/restoration for persons from vulnerable populations; " A scholars' seminar series (across five semesters) focused on essential research content and proficiencies. Five aims and 10 linked hypotheses address a test of outcomes and modeling of the proposed learning process that begins with Motivator Direction and Strength and ends with Scholarly Activity and Career Path plan. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Little is known about the factors that influence the pursuit of a research career by minority persons. The proposed study will add to what is known about key elements, the mechanisms, which promote the achievement of successful research careers of minority persons who are returning for a graduate degree in medicine, nursing, dentistry, allied health and public health. The potential impact of having evidence supported interventions that demonstrate the ability to increase the number of minority clinical researchers is the potential to more quickly and efficiently to produce a research workforce that better addresses the health needs of vulnerable populations.