Endocrine Network for Undergraduate Research and Carrier Development Opportunitie

本科生研究和载体发展机会内分泌网络

• 批准号: 8013376
• 负责人: STEVEN M ANDERSON
• 金额: $ 26.47万
• 依托单位: ENDOCRINE SOCIETY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-03-01 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8013376
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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.

描述（由申请人提供）：内分泌学会已经建立了一个培训网络，用于本科生研究和职业发展支持，为代表性不足的少数民族学生提供了少数族裔访问计划（MAP）。该计划旨在增强成为生物医学研究人员的少数族裔科学家的管道。该地图将重点介绍从一组少数派服务机构的少数族裔招募本科生，并在四个医学研究中心之一的一个连续两个夏季为这些学生提供暑期实习。地图学生将在这四个机构的内分泌学会成员的实验室中进行基础研究。这四个医学研究中心已经建立了夏季研究实习计划，并将其整合到该计划中，并与基础科学和转化科学领域的良好研究计划一起融入了夏季研究中心。地图学生将在计划的第一年初期参加内分泌学会的年度会议，以参加会议上举行的培训活动，以广泛接触内分泌学领域，并了解未来几年对他们的期望。在该计划的第二年，地图学生将再次在同一或其他培训机构进行研究。二年级的学生还将在本分泌学会年度会议上的特别海报会议上介绍海报，此外还参加了在本次会议上参加教育和职业发展活动。该计划将检验以下假设：在专业社会的背景下，参加研究和职业发展培训活动将提高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以获得博士学位的承诺和成功，并增加从事学术或工业（药物或生物技术）的科学家的这些学生的数量。该地图可以增强学生本机构目前提供的培训活动，我们认为，通过在内分泌社会中创建个人，支持性的指导，使学生可以在专业社区中为自己的角色形象化，这将提高对生物医学研究职业的承诺。我们预测，在年度会议上举行的特定培训活动和夏季培训机构以及在基于互联网的环境中进行的全年指导的情况下，对内分泌相关疾病进行生物医学研究将增强这些学生的专业发展。短期成果包括与家庭本科机构和夏季研究计划中的同龄人相比，地图学生的GPA和GRE分数提高以及进入研究生院的地图学生的数量。与夏季培训机构的暑期课程学生相比，长期目标是增加博士后研究，并最终从事学术或工业环境的研究职业。 相关性：不仅关心学术界，而且总体上也是社会的主要关注点。实际上，基于代表性不足少数群体的某些细分市场的迅速增长，这个问题已成为国家关注的问题。内分泌社会解决这些问题的努力一直集中在增加接触内分泌学和其他相关科学领域的学生人数，通常在其常规课程中不涵盖。该地图与少数族裔服务机构（MSI），内分泌研究培训机构和社会志愿者合作，旨在建立一个培训网络，以增强少数族裔科学家的渠道，进而影响对少数派社区不成比例的疾病的待遇。