Endocrine Network for Undergraduate Research and Carrier Development Opportunitie

描述（由申请人提供）：内分泌学会建立了一个培训网络，为本科生研究和职业发展提供支持，为被忽视的少数民族学生提供服务，称为少数民族访问计划（MAP）。该计划旨在加强少数民族科学家成为生物医学研究人员的渠道。该计划将集中于从少数民族服务机构中选拔本科生，并在四个医学研究中心中的一个提供连续两个夏季实习机会。MAP学生将在这四所机构的内分泌学会成员实验室进行基础研究。这四个医学研究中心已经建立了暑期研究实习项目，MAP的学生将被纳入其中，此外，全国公认的内分泌学部门在基础科学和转化科学方面也建立了完善的研究项目。MAP的学生将在第一年的早期参加内分泌学会年会，参加在会议上举行的培训活动，以获得对内分泌学领域的广泛接触，并了解未来几年对他们的期望。在项目的第二年，MAP学生将再次在同一或不同的培训机构进行研究。二年级学生除了参加内分泌学会年会的教育和职业发展活动外，还将在一个特别的海报会议上展示海报。该项目将测试这样一个假设，即在专业协会的背景下参与研究和职业发展培训活动，将增加学生作为生物医学研究人员的自我认同，增强他们进入研究生院获得博士学位的承诺和成功，并增加这些学生在学术或工业（制药或生物技术）环境中从事科学家职业的人数。MAP加强了目前在学生家庭机构提供的培训活动，我们相信，通过在内分泌学会内建立个人的、支持性的指导，学生可以想象自己在专业社区中的角色，这将增加他们对生物医学研究事业的承诺。我们预测，在年会和夏季培训机构举办的具体培训活动中进行内分泌相关疾病的生物医学研究，加上在基于互联网的环境中进行的全年指导，将促进这些学生的专业发展。短期成果包括MAP学生的GPA和GRE成绩的提高，以及MAP学生进入研究生院的人数，与国内本科院校和暑期研究项目的同龄人相比。与暑期培训机构的暑期项目学生相比，长期目标是增加博士后研究，并最终进入学术或工业环境的研究生涯。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Endocrine Society has established a training network for undergraduate research and career development support serving underrepresented minority students termed the Minority Access Program (MAP). This program was designed to enhance the pipeline of minority scientists that become biomedical researchers. The MAP will focus upon recruitment of undergraduates from a select group of minority serving institutions and offer these students summer internships for two consecutive summers at one of four medical research centers. MAP students will conduct basic research in the laboratories of Endocrine Society members at these four institutions. These four medical research centers have established summer research internship programs into which the MAP students will be integrated, as well as nationally recognized divisions of endocrinology with well established research programs in basic and translational science. MAP students will attend the Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society early during their first year in the program to engage in training events held at the meeting, to gain a broad exposure to the field of endocrinology, and to gain an understanding of what will be expected of them in the future years. In the second year of the program, the MAP students will again conduct research at either the same or at a different training institution. Second year students will also present posters at a special poster session at the Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society, in addition to attending education and career development events at this meeting. This program will test the hypothesis that engaging in research and career development training events held in the context of a professional society will increase the self-identity of students as biomedical researchers, enhance their commitment and success to enter graduate school to obtain a Ph.D., and increase the number of these students that undertake careers as scientists in either an academic or industrial (pharmaceutical or biotech) setting. The MAP provides an enhancement to the training activities currently offered at the students' home institutions, that we believe will increase commitment to a career in biomedical research by creating personal, supportive mentoring within The Endocrine Society such that students can visualize a role for themselves in a professional community. We predict that conducting biomedical research on endocrine-related disorders in the context of specific training events held both at the Annual Meeting and at summer training institutions coupled with year round mentoring conducted in an internet-based environment will enhance the professional development of these students. Short-term outcomes include increased GPA and GRE scores for MAP students and the number of MAP students entering graduate school compared to peers at the home undergraduate institutions and in summer research programs. Long-term goals are increased postdoctoral studies compared to fellow summer program students at the summer training institutions and eventually entry into a research career in either an academic or industrial setting. RELEVANCE: The under representation of minorities in the sciences continues to be a major concern, not only of academia, but also of society in general. In fact, based on the rapidly growing increase in certain segments of underrepresented minority populations, this issue has become a national concern. The Endocrine Society efforts to address these issues has been focused on increasing the number of students exposed to endocrinology and other related scientific fields usually not covered in their regular curriculum. Working with minority serving institutions (MSIs), endocrine research training institutions and Society volunteers, the MAP aims to create a training network that will enhance the pipeline of minority scientists and, in turn, impact the treatment of disorders that disproportionately affect minority communities.