LSAMP BRIDGE TO THE DOCTORATE - ILLINOIS LSAMP BRIDGE TO THE DOCTORATE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO 2013-2015

伊利诺斯州路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟通往伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校博士项目的桥梁项目的中心目标是增加获得研究生教育机会的弱势群体的数量。该计划为博士学位（BD）学生提供了学术和专业社交技能的桥梁，以达到最高水平的能力。入学前，教职员工监督，研究实验室轮岗，研究项目和专业互动以及密集的评估协议有助于确保这些学生完成博士或医学博士/博士学位。完成课程后，BD学生将准备进入国内任何机构的博士后项目或获得更高水平的STEM就业。这些活动的一个创造性方面是将医学博士或博士纳入正在培养的博士生骨干中。伊利诺伊大学伊利诺伊分校的LSAMP BD项目有四个主要目标：1。从本地和区域LSAMP联盟中招收至少12名积极进取的学生进入UIC博士课程；2 .为即将入学的BD研究员进行博士学习和培训做准备；举办活动，鼓励学士学位研究员坚持博士研究；和4。实施一系列旨在加强伊利诺伊州LSAMP BD研究员的教育和培训的活动，并帮助他们过渡到博士后奖学金，在学院的安置，或其他需要博士水平STEM教育的职位。在包括健康科学在内的STEM学科中，少数民族在研究生、博士后研究员和教师中所占比例极小。伊利诺伊大学伊利诺斯分校的LSAMP BD项目将扩大代表性不足的群体的参与，包括妇女、少数民族和少数民族。该项目不仅有助于缩小由于在博士水平上发挥创造性作用的人数不足而造成的差距，还将鼓励那些因缺乏合格榜样而一直保持沉默的人尝试研究生工作。

The central goal of the Illinois Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Bridge to the Doctorate Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is to increase the number of underserved populations who attain access to graduate education. The program provides Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) students with the academic and professional social skills to function at the highest levels of competency. Pre-matriculation, staff and faculty monitoring, research lab rotations, research projects and professional interactions along with intensive evaluation protocol helps to ensure that these students complete their PhD or MD/PhD. Upon completion of the program, the BD students will be ready to go into a postdoctoral program at any institution in the country or to obtain upper level STEM employment. One of the creative aspects of these activities is the inclusion of MD/PhDs among the cadre of PhD students that are being produced.The Illinois LSAMP BD Program at UIC has four primary objectives:1. To recruit a minimum of twelve highly motivated students from local and regional LSAMP alliances to UIC PhD programs;2. To prepare matriculating BD Fellows to study and train towards the PhD;3. To facilitate activities that will encourage BD Fellows to persist in PhD studies; and 4. To implement a series of activities designed to enhance the education and training of Illinois LSAMP BD Fellows and help them transition to postdoctoral fellowships, placement in the academy, or other positions requiring doctoral level STEM education.Ethnic minorities comprise a disproportionately small fraction of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty in the STEM disciplines, including health sciences. The Illinois LSAMP BD Program at UIC will broaden the participation of underrepresented groups including women, ethnic and racial minorities. The program will not only help to close the gap created by the paucity of underrepresented individuals who are functioning creatively at the PhD level, it will also encourage others who have been reticent to attempt graduate work because of the lack of qualified role models.