Diversity in Research and Medicine

描述(由申请者提供)：我们在这里建议加州大学圣迭戈分校医学院(SOM)的一个新项目，名为研究和医学多样性(DIRM)项目。这一短期计划的目标是将来自少数民族、经济或社会弱势背景的本科生以及身体残疾的本科生介绍到未来的医学博士/博士课程中，并吸引他们从事内科科学家的职业生涯。所有这些群体的个人在医学和生物医学科学中的代表性都很低。我们的总体目标是提供一个研究密集但有重点的体验，接触到医生-科学家培训计划的关键组成部分。培训计划的具体目标是：1)在夏季提供短期的研究密集型实验室经验，使未来能够参与学术研究工作，并促进来自未被充分代表的种族/民族或弱势背景的个人进入医学博士/博士课程。2)通过与教职员工一起参加临床跟踪体验，提高申请者了解临床培训和内科科学家努力的能力。3)通过参加大学范围内的活动以及与教师和MSTP实习生的授课会议，最终在面向本科生的校园论坛上以书面和口头形式介绍暑期实习生的科学工作，从而激励并使实习生能够申请和录取健康科学项目。加州大学圣迭戈分校的SOM在研究和临床方面有着长期的记录，并在旨在扩大生物医学劳动力多样性的计划方面拥有丰富的经验。拟议的DIRM计划将与我们的NIH支持的MSTP计划相联系，但不同于我们的MSTP计划，MSTP是一个研究生级别的计划，培训医学博士/博士内科科学家。申请人必须是来自少数族裔群体、经济或社会弱势背景或身体残疾的本科生，才有资格参加DIRM。DIRM课程是独一无二的，意义重大，因为它为这些本科生提供了一个研究密集型和临床相关的课程。重要的是，这个项目将是美国为数不多的同时促进生物医学研究和医疗保健提供的项目之一，该项目专注于未来进入医学博士/博士项目的学生，这些学生的背景在这些项目中的代表性较低。总的来说，它将促进他们未来在生物医学科学和医疗保健方面的培训和职业生涯。通过向这些处于成熟期的学员介绍这样的机会，我们相信这将吸引他们成为一名对心血管疾病特别感兴趣的内科科学家。当然，我们意识到，对于处于培训阶段的学生来说，很难预测这个最终目标，但我们的初步结果支持了这一信念。(摘要结束

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose here a new program at the UCSD School of Medicine (SOM) titled the Diversity in Research and Medicine (DIRM) Program. The goal of this short-term program is to introduce undergraduates who come from ethnic minorities, economically or socially disadvantaged backgrounds, as well as ones with physical disabilities to future training available in M.D./ Ph.D. programs, and attract them to a career as a physician-scientist. Individuals from all of these groups are underrepresented in medicine and biomedical sciences. Our overall goal is to provide a research-intensive but focused experience with exposure to critical components of the Physician-Scientist training program. The Specific Aims of the training program are to: 1) Provide a short-term research-intensive laboratory experience in the summer that will enable future participation in academic research efforts, and promote the entrance of individuals from underrepresented racial/ethnic or disadvantaged backgrounds into M.D./Ph.D. programs. 2) Enhance the ability of the applicants to understand the clinical training and efforts of physician-scientists by participation in a clinical shadowing experience with faculty members. 3) Motivate and enable trainees to apply to and matriculate in health science programs by participation in university-wide events and didactic conferences with faculty and MSTP trainees, culminating in written and oral presentation of the summer trainees' scientific work at a campus-wide forum for undergraduate trainees. The UCSD SOM has a long track record in research and clinical excellence, as well as experience in programs geared to amplifying the diversity of the biomedical workforce. The proposed DIRM Program will be connected to but distinct from our NIH-supported MSTP, a graduate-level program that trains M.D./Ph.D. physician- scientists. To qualify for DIRM, applicants must be undergraduate students from ethnic minority groups; economically or socially disadvantaged backgrounds or have a physical disability. The DIRM program is unique and significant in that it provides a research-intensive and clinically-connected program for these undergraduate trainees. Importantly, this program will be one of the few in the U.S that promotes both biomedical research and health care delivery and that focuses on future entrance into a M.D./Ph.D. program of students from backgrounds underrepresented in these programs. It will foster their future training and careers in biomedical sciences and healthcare, in general. By introducing such opportunities to these trainees who are at a formative age, we believe it will attract them towards a career as a physician-scientist with specific interest in cardiovascular diseases. We realize, of course, that it is difficult to predict this ultimate goal for students who are at an erly stage of their training, but our initial, preliminary results support this belief. (End of Abstract