MCUAAAR Research Education Component

研究教育核心摘要 少数民族在生物、医疗和社会等各个层面都严重短缺 行为科学工作者。非洲裔美国人、拉美裔美国人和美洲原住民 进入并完成大学、研究生院和专业学校的可能性。 此外，社会和生物医学科学领域的少数民族教职员工较少。 有可能获得终身教职或升任最高学术职位。其中一个问题是 在文献中确定的，可能会大大促进学术和生物多样性- 医务人员正在进行指导。我们建议建立一个经过验证的“综合”方法。 辅导使MCUAAAR的飞行员调查人员变得富有成效 研究人员并获得NIA/NIH的资金。研究性教育的三个具体目标 组成部分(REC)包括：1)招募和遴选15名新的初级研究人员，他们提出试点 使用生物-心理-社会生命过程框架进行行为和社会科学研究的研究 老龄化和健康差距；2)协调短期和长期指导、保留和 对这组以社会调查为重点的少数民族初级调查员的跟踪调查 和行为方面的身心健康和健康差距；以及，3)进行 全年培训课程，并为研究人员和行为实施课程 为全国初级少数族裔教职员工和 博士后学者。我们制定了一套结构化的指导和教育流程， 包括个性化发展计划、月度综合辅导和个人辅导 会议，以及关于研究基础和健康差距的教育系列。我们的 通过将研究教育核心与 行政、社区联络和外联以及分析核心。MCUAAAR 教职员工已经制定了一种行之有效的策略来成功地指导初级研究人员，并且 MCUAAR的教职员工是非洲裔美国人生命历程领域中活跃的主要研究人员 发育和衰老。根据这一可靠的记录，密歇根研究中心 关于城市非裔美国人老龄化的研究显然非常适合为 发展下一代RCMAR科学家。

Research Education Core Abstract There is a severe shortage of ethnic minorities at all levels of the bio-medical and social and behavioral sciences workforce. African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans have a lower likelihood of entering and completing college, graduate school, and professional schools. Additionally, ethnic minority faculty members in the social and bio-medical sciences are less likely to receive tenure or move to the highest levels of academic positions. One of the issues identified in the literature that may substantially facilitate diversifying the academic and bio- medical workforce is mentoring. We propose to build upon a proven method of “integrative” mentoring which has allowed pilot investigators in the MCUAAAR to become productive researchers and obtain NIA/NIH funding. The three specific aims of the Research Education Component (REC) include: 1) Recruit and select 15 new junior researchers who propose pilot studies using a biopsychosocial life-course framework for behavioral and social science studies of aging and health disparities; 2) Coordinate the short and long term mentoring, retention, and follow-up of this set of ethnic minority junior investigators whose research focuses on the social and behavioral aspects of physical and mental health and health disparities; and, 3) Conduct year-round training sessions, and implement curricula for research investigators and conduct intensive three-day summer workshops for a national audience of junior minority faculty and postdoctoral scholars. We have developed a structured mentoring and education process, which includes an individualized development plan, monthly integrative and individual mentoring sessions, and an educational series in research fundamentals and health disparities. Our mentoring approach is enhanced through the integration of the Research Education Core with the Administrative, Community Liaison and Outreach, and Analysis Cores. The MCUAAAR faculty have developed a proven strategy to successfully mentor junior researchers, and the MCUAAR faculty are active major researchers in the field of African American life-course development and aging. Based upon this proven track record, the Michigan Center for Research on Urban African American Aging Research is clearly well-suited to contribute to the development of the next generation of RCMAR scientists.