Promoting Research Opportunities Fully--Prospective Academics Transforming Health

描述（由申请人提供）：少数民族学生似乎进入医学院的目的是追求类似的学术事业（拉丁美洲人）或仅略有减少（非洲裔美国人）的比例作为他们的白色同行，但较少的健康差距人口（HDP）的学生表示从医学院毕业或居住相同的意图。早期经历似乎对职业选择有很大影响，早期的负面经历可能对少数民族学生的学术生涯发展特别有害。对少数民族学生和女学生的多项研究表明，通过适当的指导和有针对性的社会支持，缓解持续的压力，克服常见的和特定背景的障碍，学术医学的道路是畅通的。尽管UCSF的地位作为一个卓越的研究机构，并存在几个结构良好的研究计划和学员的机会，UCSF还没有翻译其在招聘HDP学生到大量的HDP学生选择学术医学职业的杰出成功。我们建议利用这一R25（c）机制来创建一个创新的教育研究计划，PROF-PATH：充分促进研究机会-前瞻性的学术改变健康。基于社会认知职业生涯理论，PROF-PATH将为来自UCSF四所卫生专业学校的HDP学生创造新的研究培训机会;提高现有项目在学术职业道路上全面支持HDP学生的能力;促进早期进入成功研究经验的机会，并提高当地研究教师有效指导HDP卫生专业学生的能力。这个雄心勃勃的计划利用了UCSF现有的财务，行政和课程资源。 公共卫生相关性：认识到卫生专业科学劳动力的多样性符合国家的迫切利益，本提案概述了一个主要学术研究中心的多学科团队的方法，以利用和加强丰富的现有资源，创造一个创新的，新颖的，以健康差异为重点的人口研究教育和职业发展计划，PROF- PATH：充分促进研究机会-有前途的学者改变健康。基于社会学习理论，PROF-PATH将与UCSF的首要研究培训计划相结合，为指导研究经验创造新的机会，并加强指导，学术和研究技能支持的结合，为不同学生在研究生涯中的持续成功提供必要的支持。这个跨专业的计划将包括来自UCSF的四个专业学校的学生的参与，并与广泛的机构支持计数。本申请是对NIH RFA-MD-11-004第c节的回应。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Minority students appear to enter medical school with the intent of pursuing academic careers in similar (Latino) or only slightly reduced (African American) proportions as their white counterparts, yet fewer health disparities population (HDP) students indicate the same intent upon graduation from medical school or residency. Early experiences appear to strongly influence career choices, and early negative experiences may be particularly harmful to the academic career development of minority students. Multiple studies of minority and women students indicate that the academic medicine path is smoothed by appropriate mentoring and targeted social support to ease ongoing stress and overcome common and background-specific hurdles. Despite UCSF's stature as a preeminent research institution, and the existence of several well-structured research programs and opportunities for trainees, UCSF has not yet translated its outstanding success in the recruitment of HDP students into large numbers of HDP students selecting careers in academic medicine. We propose to use this R25 (c) mechanism to create an innovative education research program, PROF-PATH: Promoting Research Opportunities Fully--Prospective Academics Transforming Health. Based on social cognitive career theory, PROF-PATH will create new research training opportunities for HDP students from UCSF's four health professional schools; enhance the ability of existing programs in fully supporting HDP students in an academic career path; promote opportunities for early, entrance into successful research experiences, and increase the capacity of local research faculty to effectively mentor HDP health professional students in research. This ambitious program harnesses existing financial, administrative and curricular resources at UCSF. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Recognizing that diversity in the health professional scientific workforce is in the Nation's compelling interest, this proposal outlines the approach of a multidisciplinary team at a major academic research center to harness and enhance rich existing resources to create an innovative, novel, health disparities population focused research education and career development program, PROF- PATH: Promoting Research Opportunities Fully--Prospective Academics Transforming Health. Based on social learning theory, PROF-PATH will integrate with UCSF's premier research training programs to create new opportunities for mentored research experiences and to enhance the combination of mentoring, academic, and research skill support necessary for diverse students' sustained success in research careers. This interprofessional program will include the participation of students from UCSF's four professional schools and counts with widespread institutional support. This application is in response to NIH RFA-MD-11-004, section c.