Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP)

描述（由申请人提供）：西奈山医学院的学士后研究教育计划（PREP）的目标，寻求新的支持，是：（一）增加代表性不足的少数民族（URM）博士和MD-PhD学生在我们自己的研究生课程和其他优秀课程的入学率。长期目标是促进URM更大程度地参与高水平的生物医学研究事业。我们将向最近的URM大学毕业生证明，生物医学研究职业对他们来说是一个令人兴奋和可实现的选择。在这个演示的中心活动是一个前沿的指导研究经验，辅以特别研讨会，正在进行的工作，期刊俱乐部和参加会议的机会，（ii）提高PREP学者的成功能力，并在相当数量，当他们进入博士前课程时脱颖而出。为了实现这一目标，PREP学者有机会适应研究生院/医学中心的环境，作为支持PREP微型社区的一部分，并在承担博士前课程之前成为更大学术社区的全面参与者。PREP学者也将有采取或审计适当的课程工作的选择，体验博士前学术工作的挑战，一次一门课程，当他们成功时，获得信心以及“腿”相对于他们的下一个程序的要求。一系列个性化的发展活动将提高每个PREP学者从自己的出发点的技能，（iii）促进以后参与转化研究和减少医疗差距，使他们成为这些领域的参与者和/或学习者的激烈机构努力。 西奈山的PREP将建立在其前4年的成功，在此期间，大部分的第一个 17名PREP学者完成PREP进入博士课程; 17名学者中有13名进入博士（11）或MD-PhD（2）课程，并且进展强劲，现在还有一名申请博士课程。为了进一步提高这一成功，并促进更深入地参与健康和医疗保健差距问题，我们将完善计划要素，将仔细监测计划的长期成功，并通过收集和分析短期和长期结果数据来评估特定计划要素的贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goals of Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP), for which renewed support is sought, are to: (i) increase enrollment of under-represented minority (URM) PhD and MD-PhD students in our own graduate programs and in other excellent programs. The longer-term goal is to contribute to greater URM participation in biomedical research careers at a high level of achievement. We will demonstrate to recent URM college graduates that a career in biomedical research is an exciting and achievable choice for them. The central activity in this demonstration is a cutting-edge mentored research experience, supplemented critically by special seminars, works-in-progress, journal clubs and opportunities to attend meetings, (ii) enhance PREP scholars' ability to succeed and, in significant numbers, to excel when they enter pre-doctoral programs. To achieve this, PREP scholars with be given the chance to adjust to a Graduate School/Medical Center environment as part of the supportive PREP mini-community and become full participants in the larger academic community before undertaking a full pre-doctoral course-load. PREP scholars will also have the option of taking or auditing appropriate course-work to experience the challenge of pre-doctoral academic work with a single course at a time and, when they succeed, gain confidence as well as a "leg-up" with respect to the requirements of their next program. An array of individualized development activities will enhance the skills of each PREP scholar from their own starting points, (iii) foster later participation in translational research and reduction of health care disparities by bringing them into the intense institutional efforts in these arenas as participants and/or learners. Mount Sinai's PREP will build on the success of its first 4 years during which a large majority of the first 17 PREP scholars to complete PREP entered doctoral programs; 13 of the 17 scholars entered PhD (11) or MD-PhD (2) programs and are progressing strongly, with one more now applying to PhD programs. To further enhance this success and foster an even deeper engagement with issues of health and health care disparities, we will refine the Program elements, will carefully monitor the long-term success of the Program and evaluate the contribution of specific Program elements by collecting and analyzing both short- and longterm outcomes data.