Biomedical Science Research Career Enhancement Program

描述(申请人提供)：加州大学旧金山分校(UCSF)建议继续实施少数族裔学生发展倡议“加州大学旧金山分校生物医学科学研究职业提升计划”(IMSD计划)。该计划大力促进来自不具代表性群体的学生在攻读生物医学和健康科学博士学位的奖学金和研究职业准备方面的卓越表现。加州大学的公立高等教育机构力求为所有有前途的学生，包括那些来自教育和经济上处于不利地位的学生提供接受研究生教育的机会。虽然上大学的费用相对较低，但公立大学没有足够的资源为研究生提供足够的生活支持。弱势学生受到这种财政状况的不利影响最大，这也是博士项目中来自代表性不足群体的学生数量较少的原因之一。拟议的IMSD计划使加州大学旧金山分校能够确保来自代表性不足群体的研究生在短期内获得足够的经济、学术、智力和社会支持，并在寻求和进入生物医学和健康科学的研究职业岗位时取得长期成功。IMSD项目的组成部分将辅导性研究资助与学术充实活动和团队建设活动相结合，以实现研究生支持、强化学术指导和社会支持的最佳组合，以防止学生被孤立和/或边缘化。该计划旨在促进跨学科学习；团队科学；批判性思维；增强研究技能；教职员工对学术进步和职业规划的密切关注；与国家科学界的联系；以及培养通常不包括在研究生课程中的技能--如研究拨款开发和管理、资源管理、科学写作和出版、口头陈述研究结果、准备简历和职业规划技能等方面的培训。两个总体目标是：(1)确保IMSD学生及时完成最优秀的研究生学习和学术成就，以及(2)促进生物医学和健康科学研究事业，使IMSD毕业生能够晋升为领导职位，成为独立研究者、职业教育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.