San Diego State University Minority Biomedical Research Support Program

描述(由申请人提供)：南加州大学少数民族生物医学研究支持计划(MBRS)IMSD计划的总体目标是增加来自代表不足的群体的学生数量，他们获得生物医学、行为和物理科学的博士学位。我们将促进他们接触科学、学术和作为研究人员的职业。该计划将为12名本科生提供教师指导，以发展他们的研究技能、定制的建议、课外体验，以及在项目期间每年与积极参与的同行交流的机会。我们汇集了一批令人印象深刻且敬业的研究导师，他们将为我们的学生提供实践研究培训，以及将衡量和确保项目和学生成功的管理和评估计划。我们将为学生提供高度个性化的互动体验，让他们成为未来成功的科学领袖，从而提高学术科学家的多样性。此外，我们还提供了我们的计划对本科生和毕业生产生的影响的文件。我们将使用这些评价性数据和反馈来继续改进。我们将增加SDSU MBRS IMSD项目中未被充分代表的少数民族学生中攻读博士学位的人数。我们的培训计划将为申请博士培训计划的学生带来强有力的竞争，使我们至少60%的本科生毕业后将直接进入生物医学、行为科学和物理科学的博士课程。 为了实现这一长期目标，我们计划(1)提供全年的指导性研究体验，使MBRS学生能够获得出色的研究和实验室技能；(2)通过提供机会向专业受众展示他们的研究成果，并为导致出版的手稿做出贡献，培养MBRS学生的批判性思维、口头和书面沟通技能。我们提出了与项目评估相关的三个次要目标：(1)采用定量和定性相结合的数据收集方法和建立一个全面的电子跟踪数据库来系统地衡量项目结果；(2)通过保留/维护最有效的项目要素和修改/改变最无效的项目要素，利用这些数据来持续改进项目；(3)记录SDSU MBRS IMSD项目的过程，使其成为其他NIGMS指导项目的问责和成功的典范。 对公共卫生的影响：为2010年健康人列出的几乎所有目标都提到了健康差距。消除健康差距是几乎每个联邦、州和地方卫生机构的首要任务之一。SDSU MBRS IMSD建议旨在培养科学、技术、工程和数学方面有才华的未被充分代表的学生。然后，这些学生将能够利用他们的科学和领导技能，通过研究和政策实施来帮助消除健康差距。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall aim of the SDSU Minority Biomedical Research Support Program (MBRS) IMSD program is to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups who attain Ph.D. degrees in the biomedical, behavioral and physical sciences. We will facilitate their exposure to science, academia and careers as researchers. The program will provide 12 undergraduates with faculty mentoring to develop their research skills, customized advising, extracurricular experiences, and opportunities for communicating with engaged peers each year during the course of the project period. We have assembled an impressive and dedicated set of research mentors who will provide our students with hands-on research training, as well as a management and assessment plan that will measure and ensure program and student success. We will provide a highly personalized, interactive experience to the students so that they can become the successful science leaders of tomorrow, and thereby improve the diversity of academic scientists. Further, we provide documentation of the effects our program have had upon undergraduates and graduates. We will use such evaluative data and feedback to continue to improve. We will increase the number of underrepresented and ethnic minority students from the SDSU MBRS IMSD program who are pursuing doctoral-level academic careers. Our training program will result in students with strong, highly competitive applications for doctoral training programs such that at least 60% of our graduating undergraduate seniors will directly enter into Ph.D. programs in the biomedical, behavioral and physical sciences. To accomplish this long-term goal, we plan to (1) provide year-round mentored research experiences that will allow MBRS students to acquire excellent research and laboratory skills; and (2) develop MBRS students' critical thinking, oral and written communication skills by providing opportunities to present their research before professional audiences and to contribute to manuscripts leading to publications. We propose three secondary aims related to program evaluation: (1) to systematically measure program outcomes with mixed methods of quantitative and qualitative data collection and the establishment of a comprehensive electronic tracking database; (2) to use the data to continuously improve the program by keeping/maintaining program elements that are most effective and modifying/changing those that are least effective; and (3) to document the process of the SDSU MBRS IMSD program so that it becomes a model of accountability and success for other NIGMS mentoring programs. Impact on Public Health: Nearly all objectives listed for Healthy People 2010 contained references to health disparities. The end to health disparities is one of the top priorities for almost every federal, state, and local health agency. The SDSU MBRS IMSD proposal is designed to train talented underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. These students will then be able use their scientific and leadership skills to help end health disparities through research and through policy implementation.