The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Initiative for Maximizing Student

描述（由申请人提供）：在阿肯色州的代表性不足（UR）群体的大学毕业生人数少，与UR学生谁在生物科学和公共卫生毕业的全国人数少，导致进入生物医学研究领域的学生人数少。为了解决这一不足，阿肯色州大学医学科学（UAMS）在2009年创建了UAMS学生发展最大化倡议（IMSD）计划，为攻读生物医学博士学位的UR学生提供2年的工资/学费，指导和其他学生发展活动，由国家普通医学科学研究所（NIGMS）提供资金。UAMS IMSD计划对UR在博士课程中的入学率产生了重大影响。2008年，UAMS生物医学博士课程的UR学生平均入学率为6.1%，落后于当时所有生物科学的UR学生入学率的全国平均水平8.2%。目前，UAMS博士课程的平均UR成员入学率为15.3%，比全国平均水平10.7%的UR研究生高出4.6个百分点。UAMS IMSD计划的总体目标是提高UAMS在IMSD计划的前4年期间在招募和留住UR学生方面取得的成功。我们将通过实施我们具体的可衡量目标来实现这一目标，这些目标旨在将UR生物医学科学博士生入学率提高到20%，并将UR生物医学科学博士学位毕业生的数量提高到2019年UAMS生物医学博士毕业生总数的20%。这些目标与NIH-MBRS的目标相一致，即增加在研究密集型环境的机构中从生物医学科学博士课程毕业的UR学生数量，并减少UR和非UR学生之间在生物医学科学博士学位的差距。我们的第一个目标是到2018年将UR学生申请生物医学博士课程的人数增加50%。我们将通过增加招聘活动、扩大衡量这些活动结果的能力并随后修改我们的战略来实现这一目标。目标2是保留和毕业90%的学生在IMSD计划。我们将在过去成功保留的基础上，为录取的学生加强我们的博士暑期过渡计划，扩大学生发展活动，加强保留活动，并推进我们的辅导计划。最终目标是评估方案，确定哪些因素促成了成功，哪些领域需要改进，并传播结果。计划战略和成果将通过通讯，演讲和出版物传播到UAMS校园和其他学校。这里提出的举措可以有助于全球招聘，保留，并在UAMS所有UR学生毕业，并提供经验教训，以其他机构，这将最终增加UR教师和研究人员的数量在生物医学科学劳动力服务阿肯色州和国家。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The low number of college graduates from underrepresented (UR) groups in Arkansas, together with the low national number of UR students who graduate in the biological sciences and public health, result in a small pool of students entering the field of biomedical research. To address this shortfall, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) created the UAMS Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) Program in 2009 to provide UR students pursuing biomedical doctoral degrees with 2 years of salary/tuition, mentoring, and other student development activities with funds from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). The UAMS IMSD Program has had a significant impact on UR enrollment in the doctoral programs. In 2008, the average UAMS enrollment of UR students in biomedical sciences doctoral programs was 6.1%, which trailed the then national average of UR student enrollment in all biological sciences of 8.2%. Currently, the average UR member enrollment rate in UAMS doctoral programs is 15.3%, 4.6 percentage points above the national average of 10.7% UR graduate students. The overall goal of the UAMS IMSD program is to improve upon the success UAMS has had in recruiting and retaining UR students during the first 4 years of the IMSD Program. We will do this by implementing our specific measureable objectives that aim to increase UR doctoral student enrollment in the biomedical sciences to 20% and boost the number of UR students graduating with biomedical science doctorate degrees to 20% of total UAMS biomedical doctoral graduates by 2019. These objectives align with the NIH-MBRS goals of increasing the number of UR students graduating from doctoral programs in the biomedical sciences at institutions with a research intensive environment and reducing the PhD completion gap between UR and non-UR students in the biomedical sciences. Our first Aim is to increase the number of UR student applicants to doctoral programs in the biomedical sciences by 50% by 2018. We will accomplish this by increasing our recruiting activities and enlarging our capacity to measure the results of these activities and subsequently revise our strategies. Aim 2 is to retain and graduate 90% of the students in the IMSD Program. We will build on our past retention success by enhancing our PhD Summer Transition Program for matriculated students, expanding student development activities, enhancing retention activities, and advancing our mentoring plan. The final Aim is to evaluate the program and determine which factors contributed to successes and which areas need improvement, and disseminate the results. Program strategies and outcomes will be disseminated to the UAMS campus and other schools through newsletters, presentations, and publications. The initiatives proposed here can contribute to the global recruitment, retention, and graduation of all UR students at UAMS and provide lessons learned to other institutions, which will ultimately increase the numbers of UR faculty and investigators in the biomedical science workforce serving Arkansas and the nation.