Medical Student Scholars Program at UNC NIDDK Centers

描述（由申请人提供）： 北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校（University of North Carolina at查佩尔山）提出了一项医学生研究学者（MSRS）计划，该计划将为三名代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生提供为期一年的研究经验，这些学生已经完成了至少两年的医学院学习，目前正在入学。该计划的长期目标是增加致力于在NIDDK资助的特别确定种族和民族健康差异的领域从事研究事业的少数民族临床医生科学家的数量。 该研究将由我们的NIDDK资助的胃肠道生物学和疾病中心和NIDDK临床营养研究单位联合赞助。我们已经集中在两个NIDDK资助的中心，基于我们的信念，（a）提供各种经验将提高我们的能力，招募一些合格的URM医学生;（B）两个中心的教师专业知识涵盖了从基础科学到临床和项目主任流行病学研究的研究范围，因此将促进有兴趣成为医学生的职业选择。临床科学家;（c）这两个中心都是麻省理工学院强大的研究资源，以前没有一个有组织的计划，为医学生感兴趣的NIDDK资助的研究作为职业重点。项目主任，乔伊斯·哈普，医学博士，是两个中心的成员，在医学和公共卫生学院营养系的教员，和资金充足的URM临床医生，科学家。 MSRS计划的目标将通过每年选择三名URM医学生来实现-无论是来自ESTA还是来自合作医学院-他们将与ESTA计划的教师导师一起全职工作一年。MSRS学者将与两个中心的教师导师相匹配，并将利用中心的资源进行他们的研究项目。在MSRS一年期间，医学生还将参加与研究相关的必修和选修教学。奖学金后的一年将向学生提供资金，使他们能够在专业会议上展示他们的研究结果。该研究所将受益于“行政服务的卡罗莱纳医学生研究培训计划及其咨询委员会，由共同项目主任，W。医学博士坎贝尔帕特森

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) proposes a Medical Student Research Scholar (MSRS) Program that will provide a yearlong research experience for three underrepresented minority (URM) students who have completed at least two years of medical school and are currently enrolled. The long-term goal of the UNC MSRS will be to increase the number of minority clinician-scientists committed to a research career in areas funded by NIDDK that are especially identified with racial and ethnic health disparities. The UNC MSRS will be sponsored jointly by our NIDDK funded Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease and the UNC Clinical Nutrition Research Unit. We have centered the UNC MSRS in both NIDDK-funded Centers based on our conviction that (a) Offering a variety of experiences will enhance our ability to recruit a number of well-qualified URM medical students; (b) Faculty expertise within the two centers spans the spectrum of research from basic sciences to clinical and Program Director epidemiological research and thus will facilitate career choices for medical students interested in becoming clinician-scientists; (c) both Centers are strong research resources at UNC which previously have not had an organized program for medical students interested in NIDDK funded research as a career focus. The Program Director, Joyce Harp, MD, is a member of both centers, a faculty member in the Department of Nutrition in the Schools of Medicine and Public Health, and a well-funded URM clinician-scientist. The goal of the MSRS program will be achieved through the selection of three URM medical students per year - both from UNC and from collaborating medical schools - who will dedicate a year to full-time work with the UNC Program's faculty mentors on a project. The MSRS Scholars will be matched to faculty mentors from the two Centers and will utilize the Centers' resources to conduct their research projects. During the MSRS year, the medical students will also participate in required and optional didactics relevant to research. Funding will be available to the students for the year after the fellowship to allow them to present the findings from their research at professional meetings. The UNC MSRS will benefit from the ' administrative services of the Carolina Medical Student Research Training Program and its Advisory Committee, headed by co-Program Director, W. Campbell Patterson, M.D.