University of New Mexico PREP Program

描述（由申请人提供）：新墨西哥州的大学学士后研究和教育计划（UNM PREP）是一个生物医学研究培训计划，重点是少数民族和计划进入博士课程的社会经济代表性不足的个人。通过一系列明确的目标，我们将：为我们的计划招募高质量的代表性不足的学者;制定和实现个性化的培训计划，提供实验室研究经验和学术培训，以提高学者的技能;提供额外的培训模块，以发展学者的专业技能;为学者成功申请博士课程提供支持和培训;调查影响研究生保留的参数;并利用这些数据来改善UNM的研究生培训。我们预计，这次培训的结果将是增加科学领域代表性不足的人数，并增加对减少健康差距的研究重点和认识。 该项目与人类健康的相关性是通过直接培训生物医学科学领域的个人，以及他们随后在博士课程中的出色表现。由于我们的学者来自与特定健康差距相关的人群，我们将培训具有高度积极性和技能的个人，以开展旨在缓解和治愈这些健康差距的未来研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of New Mexico Postbaccalaureate Research and Education Program (UNM PREP) is a biomedical research training program focused upon Minorities and socio-economically under-represented individuals who plan to enter a PhD program. Through a series of defined objectives, we shall: recruit high-quality under-represented Scholars to our program; develop and realize individualized training plans to provide laboratory research experience and academic training to improve the skill set of the Scholar; provide additional training modules to develop the professional skills of the Scholar; provide support and training in the successful application of the Scholars to PhD programs; investigate the parameters impacting graduate school retention; and utilize these data to improve graduate training at UNM. We anticipate that the results of this training will be to increase the numbers of under-represented individuals in the sciences, and to increase research focus and awareness upon reducing health disparities. The relevance of this project to human health is through the direct training of individuals in biomedical science fields, and their subsequent strong performance in PhD programs. Since our Scholars hail from populations associated with specific health disparities, we shall be training individuals who are highly motivated and skilled to carry out future research aimed at alleviating and curing these health disparities.