Symposium on Career Opportunities in Biomedical Sciences

描述（由申请人提供）：少数民族健康学校（MHPF），与少数民族健康学校协会（AMHPS）合作，其成员机构自1987年以来一直赞助生物医学科学职业机会年度研讨会。通过这次生物医学研讨会，MHPF正试图缩小少数民族年轻人教育方面的差距，这将影响该国生物医学科学和卫生专业未来资源的质量和数量。MHPF了解，早期干预和鼓励对于提高少数民族学生从事生物医学科学和卫生专业的可能性至关重要。许多活动发生在一年中，年度生物医学研讨会是一个高潮事件，汇集了来自当地科学和数学俱乐部的学生，分享他们接触到现实生活中的科学家和卫生专业人员的经验。我们提供实践研讨会，让学生有机会向更多的观众展示他们的研究，并与政府，学术界和企业界的专业人士建立联系。 为您的特定研究所增加的价值是，这些年轻的参与者有动力成为未来的生物医学和卫生专业的未来劳动力。未来的劳动力必须能够满足社会的需求，而社会的需求在许多方面都反映了这些需求。研讨会的目的是激励和提供信息，帮助年轻的参与者决定他们想成为什么样的人，做好充分的准备。许多人已经开始在环境健康、糖尿病、癌症、DNA、人类发展、传染病、皮肤病、生物工程、牙科研究、替代医学、交流障碍、生物医学研究、衰老过程以及行为和社会科学研究等领域进行研究。我们的目标是继续培养这种好奇心，并将其推向成为科学家或健康专业人士的可能性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Minority Health Professions (MHPF), in collaboration with the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools (AMHPS), its member institutions has sponsored since 1987 an annual symposium on Career Opportunities in Biomedical Sciences. The MHPF through this Biomedical Symposium is attempting to narrow the gaps in the education of minority young people that will affect the future quality and quantity of resources in the biomedical sciences and health professions of the nation. The MHPF understands that early intervention and encouragement are essential to enhancing the likelihood of minority students pursuing careers in the biomedical sciences and health professions. A number of activities take place during the year and the Annual Biomedical Symposium is a culminating event that brings together students from local science and math clubs to share in an experience where they are exposed to real-life scientists and health professionals. We provide hands-on workshops, opportunities for students to present their research to a larger audience and simply network with professionals in the fields of government, academia and the corporate world. The value added to your particular Institute is that these young participants are motivated to become the future biomedical and health professions workforce of the future. This future workforce must be able to address the needs of a society that in many ways will be reflective of them. The Symposium's intent is to motivate and provide information that will aid in helping the young participants decide what they would like to become with adequate preparation. Many have already begun research in areas such as environmental health, diabetes, cancer, DNA, human development, infectious diseases, skin diseases, bioengineering, dental research, alternative medicine, communication disorders, biomedical research, the aging process, and behavioral and social science research. Our aim is to continue nurturing this curiosity and to move it toward a realization that becoming a scientist or health professional is possible.