San Antonio Biomedical Education and Research

描述(由申请人提供)：德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校(UTHSCSA)、圣玛丽大学(StMU)和圣母湖大学(Ollu)已经开发了圣安东尼奥生物医学教育和研究(SABER)计划。这个为期4年的博士后项目将最先进的研究中的指导培训与创新的教学方法和指导教学经验结合在一起。UTHSCSA是南得克萨斯州唯一一所一级研究型大学，拥有强大的卓越教育文化，其校友在当地机构担任教职，这些机构主要服务于拉美裔本科生。这一教育里程碑反映了UTHSCSA独特的培训环境，提高了教职员工和受训人员对快速增长的拉美裔学生人口需求的敏感度。UTHSCSA、STMU和OLLU是为拉美裔服务的机构，直接反映了该地区的人口，即圣安东尼奥是 美国第七大城市，在西班牙裔占多数的城市中拥有最多的西班牙裔人口。尽管在过去十年里，拉美裔美国人贡献了美国经济增长的一半，大学里拉美裔美国人的入学人数也达到了历史最高水平，但在科学界的各个层面，拉美裔美国人的比例都偏低。SABER将培养杰出的博士后研究人员/教师，并将直接解决拉美裔学生的愿望和成就之间的差距，同时提高本科生对生物医学研究职业的兴趣。基于我们在研究/教学方面培养非常成功的博士后学者的成熟方法，我们建议利用我们的经验来实现IRACDA(院校研究和学术职业发展奖)的目标。教学培训将包括由我们的合作者三一大学组织的研讨会，该大学是霍华德·休斯医学院(HHMI)授予的本科研究和教学机构。此外，在将SABER正规化方面获得的效率将被利用，并向所有博士后实习生提供。SABER计划将实现以下目标：1)为多样化和有成就的博士后学者招募和提供模范研究培训，这些博士后学者具有不折不扣的研究生产率和在模型生物/系统方面的经验，能够应对研究和科学教育的挑战。2)造就精通当代生物医学研究、致力于高质量本科教育、终身学习的模范和引路人的教学学者。3)使伙伴机构之间的合作教育和科研培训正规化。成功完成这些目标将培养杰出的军刀奖学金获得者，并使所有参与机构大大受益。STMU和OLLU的科学课程将融入科学的最新进展。此外，所有国家之间的科学交流 将增加机构，以促进新的合作，并保持我们区域集体生物医学研究环境的改善。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), St. Mary's University (StMU), and Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) have developed the San Antonio Biomedical Education and Research (SABER) program. This 4-year postdoctoral program combines mentored training in state-of-the-art research with innovative pedagogic teaching methods and guided teaching experiences. UTHSCSA is the only Tier-One research university in South Texas, has a strong culture of educational excellence, and has alumni who are in faculty positions at local institutions that predominantly serve Hispanic undergraduate students. This educational milestone reflects the unique training environment at UTHSCSA, which promotes faculty and trainee sensitivity to the needs of a rapidly growing population of Hispanic students. UTHSCSA, StMU, and OLLU are Hispanic-Serving Institutions, a direct reflection of the regional population, i.e., San Antonio is the 7th largest city in the United States and has the largest Hispanic population in a Hispanic-majority city. Although Hispanics accounted for half of the country's growth in the last decade and college enrollment of Hispanics is at an all-time high, Hispanics are underrepresented at all levels of the scientific community. SABER will train exceptional postdoctoral researchers/teachers and will directly address the gap between aspirations and achievements of Hispanic students while increasing interest in careers in biomedical research among undergraduates. Based on our proven methods for training highly successful postdoctoral scholars in research/teaching, we propose to capitalize on our experiences to achieve the goals of IRACDA (Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Awards). Pedagogic training will include workshops organized by our collaborator, Trinity University, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)-awarded undergraduate research and teaching institution. Moreover, the efficiency gained in formalizing SABER will be leveraged and made available to all postdoctoral trainees. The SABER program will accomplish the following Objectives: 1) To recruit and provide exemplary research training for a diverse and accomplished pool of postdoctoral Scholars with uncompromised research productivity and experience with model organisms/systems amenable to the challenges of research and science education. 2) To create Teaching Scholars who are conversant in contemporary biomedical research, committed to high-quality undergraduate education and who serve as role models and guides for life-long learning. 3) To formalize collaborative educational and science research training among Partner Institutions. Successful completion of these objectives will develop exceptional SABER Scholars and significantly benefit all participating institutions. The science curricula of StMU and OLLU will be infused with the latest advances in science. Additionally, scientific exchanges between all institutions will be increased to foster new collaborations and to sustain enhancements in the collective biomedical research environment in our region.