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(UNC)提出了一项医学生研究学者(MSRS)计划，该计划将为三名未被充分代表的少数族裔(URM)学生提供为期一年的研究经验，这些学生已完成至少两年的医学院学业，目前正在入学。北卡罗来纳大学MSR的长期目标将是增加少数族裔临床医生的数量，即致力于NIDDK资助的领域的研究事业的科学家，这些领域特别被认为存在种族和民族健康差异。 北卡罗来纳大学的MSR将由我们的NIDDK资助的胃肠道生物学和疾病中心和北卡罗来纳大学临床营养研究单位联合赞助。我们将北卡罗来纳州大学的MSR集中在两个NIDDK资助的中心，因为我们相信：(A)提供各种经验将增强我们招收一批合格的URM医学生的能力；(B)两个中心的院系专业知识涵盖从基础科学到临床和项目主任流行病学研究的各个研究领域，从而将促进有兴趣成为临床科学家的医学生的职业选择；(C)两个中心都是北卡罗来纳州大学强大的研究资源，以前没有为对NIDDK资助的研究感兴趣的医学生提供有组织的计划作为职业重点。项目主任Joyce Harp医学博士是这两个中心的成员，是医学院和公共卫生学院营养系的教员，也是一名资金雄厚的URM临床医生和科学家。 MSRS计划的目标将通过每年从北卡罗来纳大学和合作医学院挑选三名URM医学生来实现，他们将花费一年的时间与北卡罗来纳大学计划的教师导师一起开展一个项目。MSRS学者将与这两个中心的教师导师配对，并将利用两个中心的资源开展他们的研究项目。在MSR学年，医学生还将参加与研究相关的必修和选修教学。奖学金颁发后的第二年，学生将获得资助，以便他们在专业会议上展示他们的研究成果。北卡罗来纳大学的MSR将受益于卡罗莱纳医科学生研究培训计划及其咨询委员会的行政服务，该委员会由项目联席主任W.Campbell Patterson医学博士领导。

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.