Diversity in Research and Medicine

描述（由申请人提供）：我们在这里提出了一个新的计划，在医学（SOM）的UCSD学校命名为多样性研究和医学（DIRM）计划。这个短期计划的目标是介绍来自少数民族，经济或社会弱势背景的本科生，以及身体残疾的人，以提供未来的培训。博士计划，并吸引他们的职业生涯作为一个医生，科学家。来自所有这些群体的个人在医学和生物医学科学领域的代表性不足。我们的总体目标是提供一个研究密集型的，但集中的经验，暴露于物理学家，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，并促进来自代表性不足的种族/民族或弱势背景的个人进入医学博士。博士程序. 2)提高申请人的能力，以了解临床培训和努力的医生，科学家通过参与临床阴影的经验与教师。 3)激励和使学员申请和录取健康科学计划通过参与大学范围内的活动和教学会议与教师和MSTP学员，最终在书面和口头介绍暑期学员的科学工作在校园范围内的论坛本科生学员。UCSD SOM在研究和临床卓越方面有着悠久的历史，以及在旨在扩大生物医学劳动力多样性的计划方面的经验。拟议的DIRM计划将连接到但不同于我们的NIH支持的MSTP，一个培养医学博士的研究生课程。博士医生-科学家。要获得DIRM的资格，申请人必须是来自少数民族群体的本科生;经济或社会弱势背景或有身体残疾。DIRM计划是独特和重要的，因为它为这些本科学员提供了一个研究密集型和临床相关的计划。重要的是，这个项目将是美国为数不多的促进生物医学研究和医疗保健服务的项目之一，重点是未来进入医学博士学位。博士来自这些项目中代表性不足的背景的学生的项目。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。通过向这些处于形成年龄的学员介绍这些机会，我们相信这将吸引他们成为对心血管疾病特别感兴趣的医生-科学家。当然，我们意识到，对于处于训练初期的学生来说，很难预测这个最终目标，但我们最初的初步结果支持了这一信念。(End抽象

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