Einstein Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program

爱因斯坦学士后研究教育计划

• 批准号: 8996181
• 负责人: Myles H. Akabas
• 金额: $ 37.85万
• 依托单位: ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-04-01 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8996181
• 关键词: Active Learning; Admission activity; African American; Alaska Native; American; Bachelor' s Degree; Biomedical Research; Camping; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Community Outreach; County; Creativeness; Development; Development Plans; Disabled Persons; Disadvantaged; Discipline; Doctor of Philosophy; Doctor' s Degree; Economically Deprived Population; Economics; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Engineering; Ensure; Environment; Faculty; Family; Foundations; Goals; Hawaiian population; Health; High School Student; Hispanic Americans; Hispanics; Individual; Institution; Interdisciplinary Study; Interview; Journals; Knowledge; Laboratory Research; Learning; Libraries; Life; Literature; Medical; Medicine; Mentors; Minority; Native Americans; Occupations; Oral; Outcome; Pacific Islands; Population; Positioning Attribute; Process; Reading; Recording of previous events; Recruitment Activity; Reporting; Research; Research Methodology; Research Project Grants; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Scientist; Solid; Students; Study Skills; System; Techniques; Time Management; Training; Training Programs; Underrepresented Minority; United States; Universities; Videotape; Visit; Woman; Work; Writing; base; burden of illness; career; career awareness; college; education research; ethnic diversity; expectation; experience; high school; improved; innovation; lectures; medical schools; meetings; member; novel; oral communication; peer; peer coaching; posters; pressure; programs; public health relevance; racial and ethnic; racial diversity; senior faculty; skills; social; socioeconomics; statistics; success; support network; undergraduate research; underrepresented minority student; volunteer

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The racial and ethnic diversity of the American population is not reflected in the biomedical research workforce or in the faculty at research universities and medical schools. Lack of intensive research experiences during their undergraduate studies leaves many underrepresented minority students unprepared to apply to highly competitive Ph.D. and MD-Ph.D. programs. The goal of this Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) is to provide underrepresented minority students who want to pursue a career in biomedical research with the intensive research experience and academic enrichment to make them competitive applicants to rigorous Ph.D. and MD-Ph.D. programs. Einstein has a long history of successfully mentoring underrepresented minority students through both its Ph.D. and MD-Ph.D. programs. We will use a layered mentoring system to support the PREP trainees and integrate them into the Einstein community. Each trainee will have a URM Ph.D. and MD-Ph.D. peer mentor, a faculty Program Advisor and a research mentor. The program will begin with a two week Orientation and Boot Camp period. Trainees will work with their Program Advisor and research mentor to formulate an Individual Development Plan (IDP). The mentored research project will emphasize the process of hypothesis-based research, the excitement and joy of scientific discovery, and the persistence and creativity needed to achieve success. The academic component of the program will include: 1) workshops on study skills/time management and library/bibliographic search techniques, 2) a graduate course in Biomedical Research Methods and Analysis, 3) a month long Medical Correlation and 4) a weekly PREP journal club. The course will provide a conceptual understanding of the major experimental approaches used in modern biomedical research. The PREP Journal Club will teach critical reading of the literature. Throughout the program special emphasis will be placed on development of oral, written and poster communication skills through lectures, workshops and individual practice. Trainees will perfect their professional skill through Career & Professional Development workshops and perform videotaped mock interviews to improve their ability to communicate their strengths in the interview process for Ph.D. or MD-Ph.D. programs. In collaboration with the Hispanic Center of Excellence, trainees will be involved in community outreach through visits to local Bronx high schools with a high percentage of URM students. This combination of didactic and experiential learning will prepare the applicants to apply successfully to highly competitive Ph.D. and MD-Ph.D. programs. We expect that more than 75% of the trainees will matriculate and successfully complete such programs. This will expand the diversity of our own graduate programs and ultimately the faculty at Einstein and beyond.

描述(申请人提供)：美国人口的种族和民族多样性没有反映在生物医学研究队伍中，也没有反映在研究型大学和医学院的教职员工中。由于在本科学习期间缺乏密集的研究经验，许多少数族裔学生没有准备好申请竞争激烈的博士和医学博士学位。这项毕业后研究教育计划(PREP)的目标是为希望从事生物医学研究事业的少数族裔学生提供丰富的研究经验和学术成果，使他们成为严格的博士和医学博士课程的有竞争力的申请者。爱因斯坦通过其博士和医学博士项目成功地指导了少数族裔学生，这一点由来已久。我们将使用分层的指导系统来支持预科学员，并将他们融入爱因斯坦社区。每个实习生将有一名URM博士和MD-博士同行导师，一名教员项目顾问和一名研究导师。该计划将从为期两周的迎新和训练营开始。学员将与他们的项目顾问和研究导师一起制定个人发展计划(IDP)。指导研究项目将强调以假设为基础的研究过程，强调科学发现的兴奋和喜悦，以及取得成功所需的坚持不懈和创造力。该计划的学术部分将包括：1)关于学习技能/时间管理和图书馆/书目搜索技术的研讨会，2)生物医学研究方法和分析的研究生课程，3)为期一个月的医学相关和4)每周准备期刊俱乐部。本课程将提供现代生物医学研究中使用的主要实验方法的概念性理解。预科杂志俱乐部将教授文学的批判性阅读。在整个计划中，将特别强调通过讲座、研讨会和个人练习来发展口头、书面和海报沟通技能。学员将通过职业和专业发展研讨会完善自己的专业技能，并进行录像模拟面试，以提高他们在博士或医学博士项目面试过程中交流优势的能力。通过与西班牙裔英才中心合作，受训人员将通过访问当地布朗克斯高中的URM学生比例较高的学校，参与社区外联活动。这种授课和体验式学习的结合将使申请者为成功申请竞争激烈的博士和医学博士项目做好准备。我们预计75%以上的学员将被录取并成功完成这些项目。这将扩大我们自己的研究生课程的多样性，并最终扩大爱因斯坦学院和其他学院的教师队伍。