Bridging Masters Students to the Ph.D.

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的桥梁计划的持续目标是培养和发展人才不足的少数民族硕士生，使他们能够进入并成功完成生物医学博士学位。德克萨斯大学医学分支（UTMB）。我们在最初的筹资阶段取得了巨大进展。在最初的两年里，我们已经招收了5名学生进入博士课程，超过10名学生进入桥梁硕士课程。我们提出的持续计划的主要特点将是广泛的校园互动，以整合MS和博士课程，保证录取和博士培训的津贴，并利用赠款资源几乎完全在MS校园。我们提出的新功能包括增加Universidad Central del Caribe（UCC）作为新的合作伙伴，我们的T32项目总监任命Bridges学生的协议，加强广泛的正式和非正式指导，并提供活动，让Bridges学生形成一个有凝聚力的可识别的校园团体。除了UCC，我们的合作学校还包括位于德克萨斯州南部的三所学校，这些学校有很高的少数民族学生入学率，提供终端硕士课程，并有研究兴趣，这使得富有成效的伙伴关系变得明显和确定。 该方案下一个供资期的具体目标是：1.保证同时进入桥梁MS和UTMB博士课程。2.扩大桥梁伙伴学校，包括中央加勒比大学，PR 3。为桥梁学生提供多层次的全面的正式和非正式的咨询和辅导4.为Bridges学生提供校园活动，以提高团队凝聚力，同时提高他们的发展和培养技能，使他们能够成功完成博士课程并竞争生物医学科学的职业生涯。 5.增加MS学生在UTMB进行部分论文研究的机会，同时促进研究合作并提高硕士机构的研究能力。 6.为所有硕士和博士生扩大科学诚信方面的既定正式课程。扩大桥梁计划中MS和博士生的具体目标，并跟踪可衡量的计划成果。 该计划的主要成果将是：1）增加少数民族学生从硕士课程到生物医学博士的过渡; 2)成功和自信的学生完成博士学位。和新兴的生物医学事业; 3）增强MS合作伙伴教师与UTMB教师和研究设施之间的互动，以提高合作大学的研究能力和基础设施。我们的桥梁计划的持续目标是培养和发展有才华的少数民族硕士生，使他们能够进入并成功完成生物医学博士学位。德克萨斯大学医学分支（UTMB）。这将与拥有大量少数民族人口的四个机构合作进行，这些机构将招收有才华的少数民族学生，并为他们提供研究金。因此，该计划包括一个伙伴关系，支持和促进少数民族学生从硕士课程到生物医学博士课程的过渡，2）集中精力和资源，主要受益于合作的硕士机构及其学生，3）提高硕士学生的竞争力和信心，使他们能够成功完成博士学位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The continuing goal of our Bridging program is to train and develop talented underrepresented minority master's students to enable them to enter and successfully complete a biomedical Ph.D. at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). We have had made tremendous progress in the initial funding period. In the first two years, we have enrolled 5 students into the doctoral program and over 10 in Bridges MS programs. Key features of our proposed continuing program will be extensive campus interactions to integrate the MS and doctoral programs, guaranteed admission and stipends for doctoral training, and utilization of grant resources almost exclusively on the MS campuses. New features we are proposing include adding Universidad Central del Caribe (UCC) as a new partner, agreements from our T32 program directors to appoint Bridges students, enhanced extensive formal and informal mentoring and providing activities to allow Bridges students to form a cohesive identifiable campus group. Our partnering schools in addition to UCC include three schools located in south Texas that have a high minority student enrollment, offer a terminal master's program and have research interests that make a productive partnership obvious and certain. The specific aims of the program for the next funding period are to:1. Guarantee simultaneously admission into the Bridges MS and UTMB doctoral programs. 2. Expand the Bridges partnering schools to include the Universidad Central del Caribe, PR 3. Provide multi-level comprehensive formal and informal advising & counseling for Bridges students 4. Provide on-campus activities to Bridges students to increase group cohesiveness, while enhancing their development and building skills that will enable them to successfully complete a doctoral program and compete for careers in the biomedical sciences. 5. Enhance opportunities for MS students to conduct part of their thesis research at UTMB, while fostering research collaborations and enhancing the research capabilities of the master's institutions. 6. Expand well-established formal coursework in scientific integrity for all master's and doctoral students 7. Expand specific goals for both MS and doctoral students in the Bridges program and track measurable program outcomes. Key outcomes from the program will be: 1) increased transition of minority students from a master's program to a biomedical Ph.D.; 2) successful and confident students completing the Ph.D. and emerging into biomedical careers ; 3) enhanced interaction between the MS partner faculty with faculty and research facilities at UTMB to improve the research capabilities and infrastructure at the partnering universities. The continuing goal of our Bridging program is to train and develop talented underrepresented minority master's students to enable them to enter and successfully complete a biomedical Ph.D. at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). This will be done in cooperation with four institutions with large minority populations that will recruit talented minority students and provide them with fellowships. This program thus consists of a partnership that supports and facilitates the transition of minority students from a master's program to biomedical PhD programs, 2) focuses effort and resources to benefit largely the partnering master's institution and its students, and 3) enhances the competitiveness and confidence of the master's students so they can successfully complete the PhD.