Houston Education and Research Training Program for Post-docs

描述（由申请人提供）：心脏（休斯顿教育和研究培训）计划IRACDA将是博士后培训的可移植模型，结合前沿水平的生物医学研究和培训，在少数民族服务机构（MSI）任教。心脏将增加未来的教师谁可以激励和培养明天的生物医学研究人员的供应。该项目将在可能的情况下包括UR博士后研究员，为本科生提供榜样。通过该项目编制的材料将提供给其他机构。来自NIH的资金将允许博士后将全国顶级生物医学机构之一贝勒医学院（Baylor College of Medicine）的联合收割机研究与休斯顿地区的MSIs教学相结合;草原景观A& M大学，圣托马斯大学和休斯顿市中心大学。 心脏学者将在整个4年计划从事研究。在该计划的第一个VA年，他们将建立自己的实验室研究项目;参加有效的教学策略，少数民族健康差异以及如何与本科生互动和指导进入生物医学博士的研讨会。程序.他们将参加整个计划的道德和职业发展研讨会。在第二年，学者将选择一个类在该计划的第三年教。在第二年的最后半年，学者们将观察他们将教授的班级或相关班级的老师，并开始计划融入前沿技术和知识的讲座。他们将保持观察日志，以帮助他们确定成功和不太成功的教学方法。在该计划的第三年，研究员将教或共同教一个类/学期，引入尖端技术和知识到类，以更好地准备本科生在生物医学的职业生涯。他们将由教学导师进行评估，以评估他们的有效性，并接受指导，以提高他们的教学。在第四年，学者们将继续研究和完成手稿。Pi将每年在一个或多个校区举办研讨会，每次会议对所有校区的学生开放，并担任对生物医学博士感兴趣的学生的外部顾问。study. 心脏IRACDA将提供宝贵的研究和大学水平的教学经验，博士后研究员在全国顶尖的生物医学机构之一，使他们能够激励和更好地准备学生从少数民族服务机构进入生物医学博士学位，项目和职业，通过这些项目和职业，他们可以对不成比例地影响服务不足的人群的疾病进行研究，并促进向少数群体提供健康信息。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The HEART (Houston Education And Research Training) Program IRACDA will be a transportable model for postdoctoral training that combines frontier level biomedical research and training to teach in minority serving institutions (MSI). The HEART will increase the supply of future faculty who can inspire and train the biomedical researchers of tomorrow. The project will include UR post-doctoral fellows when possible, providing role models for undergraduates. Materials developed through this project will be available to other institutions. Funding from NIH will allow postdocs to combine research at one of the nation's top biomedical institutions, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) with teaching at MSIs in the Houston area; Prairie View A& M University, St Thomas University and the University of Houston Downtown. HEART Scholars will be engaged in research throughout the 4-year program. During the first VA years of the program, they will establish their laboratory research project; attend workshops on effective teaching strategies, minority health disparities and how to interact with and mentor undergraduates to enter biomedical Ph.D. programs. They will attend ethics and career development workshops throughout the program. In the second year, Scholars will select a class to teach during the third year of the program. In the last half of the second year, the Scholars will observe the teacher in the class they will teach or a related class and begin planning their lectures with incorporation of leading edge technology and knowledge. They will keep a journal of observations to help them identify successful and less successful approaches to teaching. During the third year of the program, the fellows will teach or co-teach one class/semester, introducing cutting-edge technology and knowledge into classes to better prepare undergraduates for careers in biomedicine. They will be evaluated by the teaching mentor to assess their effectiveness and receive mentoring to enhance their teaching. During the fourth year the Scholars will continue research and complete manuscripts. The Pi will conduct workshops on applying to graduate school at one or more campuses each year, with each session open to students from all campuses and serve as an external advisor to students interested in biomedical Ph.D. study. The HEART IRACDA will provide valuable research and college level teaching experience to postdoctoral fellows at one of the nation's top biomedical institutions so that they can inspire and better prepare students from minority serving institutions to enter biomedical Ph.D., programs and careers through which they may work on diseases that disproportionately affect under-served populations and foster delivery of health information to minority communities.