Summer Program to Increase Diversity in Biomedical Research & Physician Workforce

描述（由申请人提供）：夏季计划，以增加生物医学研究和医生劳动力的多样性包括两个培训计划在芝加哥普利兹克医学院的大学。这两个项目都是为了提高那些对医学和研究事业感兴趣的代表性不足的少数民族和弱势学生的培训经验。为期8周的本科生暑期课程名为“普利兹克医学院研究经验（PSOMER）”，而医学院课程支持正在上升的二年级医学生参加为期12周的普利兹克暑期研究计划（SRP）。我们的目标是提供在研究，以及结构化的编程和指导，这将鼓励他们继续进入医学和生物医学研究事业的强烈指导夏季经验。这项赠款在芝加哥大学已经持续了15年多。在最初的奖励时，目标是为普利兹克医学院学生参与SRP提供支持-这是一个高度多样化的学生群体，包括高于平均比例的医学代表性不足的学生。多年来，芝加哥大学在吸引医学生毕业生从事研究和学术医学方面取得了巨大成功，从而支持了增加我国医学院教师多样性的努力。在2008年，当补助金最后一次更新时，该计划的具体目标被扩大到包括一个专门为高绩效大学生开发的特别计划（PSOMER），这些学生要么在医学领域代表性不足，要么在社会经济上处于不利地位。这种扩张的原因是由于担心这些学生进入医学的管道的强度，并努力支持和扩大这一计划。在过去的五年里，PSOMER一直支持这些学生为未来在医学和生物医学研究方面取得成功做好准备。夏季计划，以增加生物医学研究和医生劳动力的多样性也受益于强大的研究环境在芝加哥大学，特别是在使命由NHLBI支持的领域。尽管是一个小机构，芝加哥大学在吸引资助方面非常成功 支持. NHLBI目前资助了芝加哥大学的40多个研究和培训项目，这给了我们各种各样的科学家来选择我们的学生，目标是尽可能多地确定与任务相关的主题。 我们要求继续支持每年15名学生的研究培训。该计划享有强大的机构支持，由BSD和普利兹克医学院的成本分摊，空间，资源和培训的提供证明。最后，芝加哥大学的研究环境提供了一个强大的研究环境，以支持这个NHLBI支持计划的目标。 (End摘要）

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Summer Program to Increase Diversity in Biomedical Research and the Physician Workforce encompasses two training initiatives at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. Both are designed to enhance the training experience of underrepresented minority and disadvantaged students who are interested in pursuing careers in medicine and research. The 8-week summer program for undergraduates is entitled "The Pritzker School of Medicine Experience in Research (PSOMER)," while the medical school program supports the participation of rising second year medical students in the 12-week Pritzker Summer Research Program (SRP). The goal is to provide strongly mentored summer experiences in research, as well as structured programming and mentoring which will encourage them to continue into medicine and biomedical research careers. This grant has been ongoing at the University of Chicago for over 15 years. At the time of the initial award, the goal was to provide support for SRP participation by Pritzker medical students - a highly diverse group of students, including higher than average percentages of students who are underrepresented in medicine. Over the years, the University of Chicago has achieved strong success in attracting its medical student graduates to careers in research and academic medicine, thus supporting efforts to increase the diversity of the faculty at our nation's medical schools. In 2008, when the grant was last renewed, the specific aims of the program were expanded to include a special program (PSOMER) developed specifically for high performing college students, who were either underrepresented in medicine or disadvantaged socioeconomically. The reason for this expansion was due to concerns about the strength of the pipeline of such students into medicine and an effort to support and expand this program. Over the last five years, PSOMER has supported the preparation of these students for future success in medicine and biomedical research. The Summer Program to Increase Diversity in Biomedical Research and the Physician Workforce has also benefited from a robust research environment at the University of Chicago, particularly in the mission areas supported by the NHLBI. Despite being a small institution, the University of Chicago has been highly successful in attracting grant support. The NHLBI currently funds over 40 research and training programs at the University of Chicago, and this gave us a variety of scientists from whom to choose to place our students with the goal of identifying as many mission-related subjects as possible. We are requesting continued support for the research training of 15 students/year. The program enjoys strong institutional support, evidenced by cost-sharing, provision of space, resources, and training by the BSD and Pritzker School of Medicine. Finally, the research environment of the University of Chicago provides a robust research environment to support the goals of this NHLBI supported program. (End of Abstract)