Biomedical Science Research Career Enhancement Program

描述（由申请人提供）：加州大学，旧金山弗朗西斯科（UCSF），建议继续实施少数民族学生发展倡议“UCSF生物医学科学研究职业提升计划”（IMSD计划）。该计划大力促进优秀的奖学金和研究职业准备的学生从代表性不足的群体追求博士学位。生物医学和健康科学学位。加州公立高等教育机构的大学寻求提供研究生教育的所有有前途的学生，包括那些从教育和经济上处于不利地位的背景。虽然入学费用相对较低，但公立大学没有足够的资源为研究生提供足够的生活支助。弱势学生受到这种财政状况的不利影响最大，这导致来自代表性不足群体的博士生人数很少程序.拟议的IMSD计划使UCSF能够确保来自代表性不足群体的研究生有足够的财务，学术，智力和社会支持，以在短期内取得成功，并在长期内寻求和进入生物医学和健康科学的研究职业职位。IMSD计划的组成部分联合收割机相结合的指导研究助学金与学术充实活动和团队建设活动，以实现研究生支持的最佳组合;密集的学术指导，和社会支持，以防止学生孤立和/或边缘化。IMSD计划旨在促进跨学科学习;团队科学;批判性思维;提高研究技能;密切关注教师对学术进步和职业规划的关注;与国家科学界的联系;和发展通常不包括在研究生课程中的技能-如研究补助金发展和管理、资源管理、科学写作和出版方面的培训，口头介绍调查结果、编写简历和职业规划技能。两个总体目标是：（1）确保及时完成IMSD学生的研究生学业，并取得最高程度的卓越和学术成就，（2）促进生物医学和健康科学研究事业，其中IMSD毕业生晋升为独立调查员，职业教育工作者和永久文献的贡献者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), proposes to continue the implementation of the Initiative for Minority Student Development "UCSF Biomedical Science Research Career Enhancement Program" (IMSD Program). This program strongly promotes excellence in scholarship and research career preparation of students from underrepresented groups pursuing the Ph.D. degree in biomedical and health sciences. University of California public institutions of higher education seek to provide access to graduate education to all promising students including those from educationally and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Though cost of attendance is relatively low, public universities do not have sufficient resources to provide adequate subsistence support for graduate students. Disadvantaged students are most adversely affected by this fiscal situation, which contributes to the low numbers of students from underrepresented groups in Ph.D. programs. The proposed IMSD Program enables UCSF to ensure that graduate students from underrepresented groups have sufficient financial, academic, intellectual, and social support to succeed in short-term, and, in the long-term when seeking and entering research career positions in the biomedical and health sciences. IMSD Program components combine mentored research assistantships with academic enrichment activities and team-building activities to achieve an optimal mix of graduate student support; intensive academic mentorship, and social support to prevent student isolation and/or marginalization. The IMSD Program aims to promote cross-disciplinary learning; team science; critical thinking; enhancement of research skills; close attention from faculty members regarding academic progress and career planning; linkages with a national scientific community; and development of skills not normally included in graduate curricula--such as training in research grant development and administration, resource management, scientific writing and publishing, oral presentation of findings, preparation of the curriculum vitae, and career planning skills. The two overall goals are: (1) to ensure timely completion of IMSD students' graduate studies with the highest degree of excellence and academic success, and (2) to foster biomedical and health science research careers in which IMSD graduates advance to leadership positions as independent investigators, career educators, and contributors to the permanent literature.