Career Development and Increasing Diversity in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

描述(由申请人提供)：目前的提案旨在支持在2014年5月举行的美国儿科血液/肿瘤学会(ASPHO)年会上举办以多样性为重点的研讨会。这将是ASPHO专业发展委员会多样性小组委员会组织的一系列年度讲习班的延续。这些以多样性为导向的研讨会在过去4年中有3年获得了NIH R13赠款支持(NCI/NHLBI)。我们假定，这些讲习班的纵向影响有助于提高人们对增加多样性和促进我们领域中代表性不足的个人进步的多方面和复杂目标的认识。我们建议利用这些成果，继续这一系列研讨会，同时增加导师部分，旨在培养不同背景的初级受训人员对儿科血液学/肿瘤学的浓厚兴趣。2010年在ASPHO成员中进行的一项人口调查显示，ASPHO成员中存在显著的族裔差异，这与少数民族在整个医学中代表性不足的已知趋势相一致。坊间传闻，在ASPHO的领导职位上，似乎严重缺乏非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔和其他族裔的代表性。这部分反映了ASPHO的总体成员，也可能代表了更大的儿科血液学/肿瘤学领域。虽然取得了进展，但妇女在ASPHO的领导职位上的任职人数仍然不足。我们假设，随着时间的推移，这些差距可以通过旨在提高ASPHO现有成员的文化意识的教育计划和直接指导代表不足的医学生和未承诺的住院医生(即与专科奖学金不匹配)的组合来缩小，以增加他们选择进入儿科血液学/肿瘤学并渴望担任领导职务的可能性。我们2014年工作坊的主题将是“增加儿科血液学/肿瘤学工作人员多样性的策略”。本次研讨会将向所有ASPHO会议与会者开放，将包括：(I)ASPHO领导层和多样性特别兴趣小组多样性倡议和成就的简要概述，(Ii)一位全国知名教师多样性发展计划领导人的主旨演讲，以及(Iii)一次密集的联网活动，以确定与多样性相关的问题，并收集关于ASPHO多样性特别兴趣小组来年拟议活动的建议。今年研讨会的一个关键补充是扩大学员旅行奖励，不仅包括对具有不同背景的团契学员的赞助，还包括对代表不足的初级学员(医学生和住院医生)的赞助，这些学员将与教职员工的“导游”配对。这些指南将确保受赞助的学员能够优化他们的会议体验，并在儿童血液学/肿瘤学领域提供接触点和指导，因为他们在会议结束后很久就开始制定职业发展计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The current proposal aims to support a diversity-focused workshop at the annual meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (ASPHO) in May 2014. This will be a continuation of a series of annual workshops organized by the Diversity Subcommittee of the ASPHO Professional Development Committee. These diversity-oriented workshops have received NIH R13 grant support (NCI/NHLBI) for 3 of the past 4 years. We hypothesize that the longitudinal effects of these workshops serve to increase awareness of the multifaceted and complex goals of increasing diversity and facilitating advancement of under- represented individuals in our field. We propose to capitalize on these achievements by continuing this workshop series while adding a mentorship component designed to foster a strong interest in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology among junior trainees with diverse backgrounds. A demographic survey among ASPHO members in 2010 revealed significant ethnic disparities in ASPHO membership, consistent with known trends of under-representation of ethnic minorities in medicine as a whole. Anecdotally, there appears to be a significant lack of African American, Hispanic, and other ethnic representation in ASPHO leadership positions. This is partially reflective of the general ASPHO membership, and it is likely representative of the larger field of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. Although gains have been made, women also remain under-represented in leadership positions within ASPHO. We hypothesize that these disparities can be reduced over time through a combination of educational programs aimed at increasing cultural awareness among existing ASPHO members and direct mentoring of under-represented medical students and uncommitted residents (i.e., not matched to a subspecialty fellowship) in order to increase the likelihood that they choose to enter Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and aspire to leadership roles. The theme of our 2014 workshop will be "Strategies for Increasing Workforce Diversity in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology". This workshop will be open to all ASPHO conference attendees and will include: (i) a brief synopsis of diversity initiatives and accomplishments of ASPHO leadership and the Diversity Special Interest Group, (ii) a keynote address from a nationally prominent leader in faculty diversity development programs, and (iii) an intensive networking exercise to identify diversity- related concerns and collect recommendations regarding the proposed activities of the ASPHO Diversity Special Interest Group for the upcoming year. A key addition to this year's workshop will be the expansion of trainee travel awards to include sponsorship of not only fellowship trainees with diverse backgrounds, but also under-represented junior trainees (medical students and residents) who will be paired with faculty "guides." These guides will ensure that the sponsored trainees are able to optimize their conference experience and provide a point-of-contact and mentorship within the field of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology as they begin to make career development plans well after the conference concludes.