High School Program in Biomedical and Health Sciences

描述(由申请人提供)： 随着人口中少数群体的数量继续增加，这些群体的健康差距和保健需求可能会继续并加剧。代表不足的少数族裔医疗保健提供者应该反映这些群体在美国人口中的比例，因为他们更有可能在服务不足的少数族裔社区工作，从而突显招聘和留住多样化医疗保健队伍的紧迫性。需要在教育渠道的多个层面上开展方案，以吸引青年从事与科学和卫生相关的职业。该计划的最终目标是增加致力于生物医学、行为科学或临床科学事业的代表不足、少数族裔和弱势群体的青年人数。近期目标是通过导师和学术追求，在一个令人兴奋、承诺和支持的环境中，促进和培养来自不同社区的年轻人对教育、科学、医学和卫生的兴趣。为了向对科学感兴趣的年轻人提供这样的关键指导和教育机会，并增加正在筹备中的年轻人的数量，我们启动了加州大学旧金山分校儿科高中生生物医学和健康科学暑期实习计划。我们现在建议继续并扩大这个针对初中生和高中生的暑期实习计划。优先招收来自生物医学和健康科学中代表性较少的人群的有才华的学生，包括女性、有色人种学生和社会经济背景较低的学生。该计划的具体目标是：1)为对科学感兴趣的学生提供亲身接触科学研究的机会，并将学生与帮助他们追求科学奖学金的导师联系起来。在这样做的过程中，我们特别针对来自少数族裔和低收入家庭的有学习动机和有才华的青年。实习生将接触到各种科学学科，从物理、生命、生物和社会科学。2)帮助改善年轻人成功申请大学入学的情况，否则他们的教育选择可能会更有限。大学招生委员会不仅根据申请者的成绩和考试成绩来审查和选择申请者，而且现在越来越重视高中生的整个个人资料，包括动机、真实世界经验、社区参与和领导承诺。3)增加学生对健康和健康相关专业的知识，包括疾病的预防、治疗和自我管理。在为期十周的计划中，学生将被安排在一个研究小组或实验室，在那里他们将有机会与包括研究生和医学生、博士后研究员和/或教职员工在内的各种研究人员互动并得到指导，并将被分配到一个指定的研究项目上。学生将参加与科学专业相关的各种主题的研讨会，还将参观加州大学旧金山分校和其他大学的不同实验室和设施，以获得更多的科学学习和教育环境。暑期结束时，学生们将在晚间招待会上展示他们的研究成果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As the number of minorities in the population continues to increase, the health disparities and health care needs for these groups will likely continue and intensify. Underrepresented minority health care providers should reflect the percentages of those groups in the U.S. population because they are more likely to work in underserved and minority communities, thus highlighting the urgency to recruit and retain a diverse health-care workforce. Programs are needed at multiple levels of the educational pipeline to engage youth in pursuing science and health-related professions. The ultimate goal of this program is to increase the number of underrepresented, minority and disadvantaged youth committed to a career in the biomedical, behavioral, or clinical science. The immediate goal is to promote and nurture interest in education, science, medicine and health among young people from diverse communities in an exciting, committed, supportive environment through mentorship and scholarly pursuit. In order to provide such key mentoring and educational opportunities for youth interested in science and increase the number of youth entered in the pipeline, we began the UCSF Department of Pediatrics High School Student Summer Internship Program in Biomedical and Health Sciences. We now propose to continue and expand this summer internship program for entering junior and senior high school students. Priority is given to recruiting and accepting talented students from populations less represented in the biomedical and health sciences, including women, students of color, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Specific aims of the program are to: 1) Provide students with interest in science the opportunity for hands-on exposure to scientific research, and to connect students with mentors who will assist them in their pursuit of scientific scholarship. In so doing, we are specifically targeting academically motivated and talented youth from minority and low-income families. Interns will be exposed to various scientific disciplines ranging from physical, life, biological, and social sciences. 2) Help improve applications for successful college admission among youth who might otherwise have more limited educational choices. College admission committees are not only reviewing and selecting applicants based on their grades and test scores, increasing weight is now put on the high school student's entire profile, including motivation, real-world experience, community involvement, and leadership promise. 3) Increase students' knowledge of health and health-related professions, including prevention, treatment, and self-management of disease. During the ten-week program, students will be placed with a research group or laboratory, where they will have the opportunity to interact with and be mentored by various researchers including graduate and medical students, post-doctoral fellows, and/or faculty members, and will be assigned a designated research project to work on. Students will attend seminars on various topics related to professions in science and will also tour different laboratories and facilities at UCSF and other universities to gain additional exposure to science learning and educational environments. At the end of the summer, students will present their research during an evening reception.