Short Term Training to Increase Diversity

描述(由申请者提供)：该项目建立在位于休斯敦得克萨斯医学中心的贝勒医学院研究生院15STT和23年SMART夏季本科生研究项目的成功历史基础上。其目的是激励和准备未被充分代表的本科生继续他们的生物医学教育。目标是(1)每年引进10名本科UR参与者进行心脏、肺和血液研究，包括计算技术、成像、组织工程、基因敲除小鼠分析方面的尖端技术，目标是80%的人将报告在该计划中鼓励他们在其职业生涯中进行研究；(2)促进作为科学家的更独立的职能，以便80%将达到所有目标；3)扩大和加强每个参与者的科学知识基础，包括尖端技术，目标是80%的人将报告在知识方面的大量到巨大的收获；(4)帮助学生改善GRE的准备工作，在口语和量化考试部分平均提高100分；。(5)提供个人职业咨询，帮助学生进入下一步的培训。实现我们目标的计划包括以下战略：(1)将学生安排在生产性研究实验室，在那里他们将成为研究团队的一员，学习新技术，如低温电子显微镜、双光子显微镜、核磁共振分析、组织工程学和对通常在他们自己的校园中无法获得的数据的计算分析，并为研究工作做出贡献；(2)按照进度评估表的评估，鼓励和监测学生朝着更独立的方向发展的进展；(3)提供研究小组和研讨会，强调心、肺和血液研究，并访问几个实验室，进行成像、心脏组织重建和计算分析方面的前沿研究；(4)提供SMART GRE准备工作坊和备考辅导；(5)通过各种机制，包括研究生院之夜、研究生院申请工作坊、医学博士课程和个人职业咨询，为学生提供更好的职业选择视角和信息；(5)通过学生及其导师完成的各种调查，以及对参与者项目的简要书面总结和陈述的分析，监测每个目标的进展情况。 公共卫生相关性：今年夏季的研究项目将包括贝勒医学院心脏、循环、肺和血液研究的前沿水平的未被充分代表的本科生。学员将成为SMART计划的正式参与者，该计划提供一系列教育活动，以激励学生并为他们的生物医学研究生涯做好准备。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project builds on a successful history of a 15 STT and 23 years of the SMART summer undergraduate research program in the Graduate School of Baylor College of Medicine located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston. The objective is to inspire and prepare under-represented undergraduates to continue their education in biomedicine. The goals are (1) to introduce 10 undergraduate UR participants/year to heart, lung and blood research, including cutting edge technologies in computational techniques, imaging, tissue engineering, knock-out mouse analysis with a goal that 80% will report that being in the program encouraged them to conduct research during their career; (2) to promote more independent functioning as scientists, so that 80% will meet all goals; 3) to expand and strengthen each participant's base of scientific knowledge, including cutting edge technologies, with a goal that 80% will report a large to enormous gain in knowledge; (4) to help students improve preparation for the GRE by increasing scores by an average of 100 points on the combined verbal and quantitative sections of the exam; (5) to provide personal career counseling to help students access the next step in their training. The plan for meeting our objectives include the following strategies: (1) Placing students in productive research laboratories where they will become a part of the research team, learn new techniques, like cryoEM, 2 photon microscopy, MRI analysis, tissue engineering and computational analysis of data typically not available on their own campuses and contribute to the research effort; (2) Encouraging and monitoring the students' progress toward more independent functioning as assessed on the progress assessment form; (3) Providing research discussion groups and seminars that emphasize heart, lung and blood research and visits to several labs conducting frontier level research in imaging, cardiac tissue reconstruction and computational analysis; (4) Providing access to the SMART GRE preparatory workshops and test-prep counseling; (5) Providing information and opportunities for students to gain better perspectives on career choices through a variety of mechanisms, including a Graduate School Night, graduate school application workshops, a session on MD/Ph.D. programs and personal career counseling Progress on each objective is monitored through a variety of surveys completed by students and their mentors and analysis of brief written summaries and presentations of participants' projects. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This summer research program will involve under-represented undergraduates to frontier level cardiac, circulatory, lung and blood research at Baylor College of Medicine. Trainees will be full participants in the SMART Program that offers arrange of educational activities to inspire and prepare students for biomedical research careers.