BRIDGES To The Pharmaceutical Sciences

本提案中所述项目的目标是增加未被充分代表的少数民族学生进入制药科学职业轨道的人数。该项目的目标是建立一种方法，为来自佛罗里达州坦帕湾/希尔斯堡县地区的少数民族学生提供获得文科副学士学位所需的知识基础和适当技能，并成功地与其他学生竞争，获得佛罗里达农工大学制药科学的入门学位。为实现这一目标，将制定一项创新的征聘战略，吸引至少30名对物理、自然或生物医学科学感兴趣的少数民族申请人；提供一个结构，以提高学习和人际交往能力，培养信心，并展示专业行为；提供财政支持和/或确定资源和获得这些资源的技能；通过大学前的活动和辅导，让学生为新的大学环境做好准备；建立学术支持计划，包括辅导、指导、建议和示范活动；跟踪学生的进度，并在必要时进行程序性调整，以继续实现BRIDGES项目的目标。该计划将有助于增加BRIDGES参与者成功完成FAMU药学和制药科学学院课程的机会，并可能有助于增加生物医学科学研究生学习的少数民族人数。

The goal of the project described in this proposal is to increase the number of underrepresented minority students who enter career tracks in the pharmaceutical sciences. The objective of this project is to establish a means for providing minority students from the Tampa Bay/Hillsborough County, Florida area with the knowledge base and appropriate skills necessary attain the Associate in Arts (AA) degree and to successfully compete with others in obtaining an entry-level degrees in the pharmaceutical sciences at Florida A&M University. This objective will be met by establishing an innovative recruitment strategy for attracting at least 30 minority applicants with interests in the physical, natural or biomedical sciences; providing a structure to improve learning and interpersonal skills, developing confidence, and demonstrating professional behavior; providing financial support and/or identifying resources and the skills to access those resources; preparing students for the new college environment with pre-college activities and counseling; establishing academic support initiatives, including tutorial, mentoring, advising and modeling activities; and tracking students' progress and making programmatic adjustments when necessary to continue to meet the goal of the BRIDGES project. This program will be instrumental in increasing the chances of successful completion of the curriculum at the FAMU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences by BRIDGES participants, and may serve to increase the number of minorities in post-graduate studies in the biomedical sciences as well.