MUSC Minority Student Development Program

描述(由申请者提供)：该项目的主要目标是为来自代表性不足的群体或弱势背景的有才华的学生提供生物医学科学方面的博士培训。预期的结果是增加选择生物医学科学研究职业的少数族裔学生的数量，提高在研究生院攻读博士课程的少数族裔学生的数量和质量，并为他们成功的职业生涯做好准备。我们制定了三个具体目标，以促进南加州大学少数民族博士生的升学、教育和毕业。第一个具体目标是提高寻求生物医学研究事业的少数民族学生的数量和质量。为此，将通过教师和管理学院学者的访问和研讨会演讲，加强与许多拥有大量少数族裔学生的学院和大学的联系。此外，大量本科生和他们的家人被邀请到我们的校园参加E.E.Just研讨会和暑期本科生研究计划。在第二个具体目标中，我们寻求通过博士项目促进少数族裔研究生的进步。入学的学生可以接触到教职员工和高年级学生的互动，为他们提供支持网络。我们已经开发了一门暑期复习课程，在第一学期之前向所有新生提供，以更好地为研究生的严酷学习做好准备。我们建议扩展这门课程，将基础分子生物学实验室的培训包括在内，为他们提供在实验室轮换中使用的技术工具包。第三个具体目标是为未被充分代表的少数族裔研究生在生物医学科学领域取得成功做好准备。我们建议成立一个职业发展委员会，以增加研究生在下一个职业阶段与专业人士的互动，帮助他们成功地驾驭学术和科学职业生涯的各个步骤。内部和外部咨询委员会将对该计划进行监督。此外，将采用定性和定量相结合的方法对该计划进行评估。 公共卫生相关性：基于美国人口普查数据的预测表明，我国人口结构在未来50年将发生巨大变化，但我们医疗保健和生物医学研究队伍的构成并未反映这些人口结构的变化。该计划的目标是吸引来自代表性不足群体或弱势背景的有才华的学生投身生物医学科学的职业生涯，以增加正在进行积极研究的研究人员的供应，这些研究将影响人类疾病的治疗。使这些领域的劳动力多样化将提高解决和消除健康差距的能力，并提高全国卫生保健的质量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of this program is to provide doctoral training in the biomedical sciences to talented students from underrepresented groups or from disadvantaged backgrounds. The anticipated outcomes are to increase the number of underrepresented minority students choosing a research career in the biomedical sciences, enhance the quantity and quality of minority students enrolled in the doctoral program in the College of Graduate Studies, and prepare them for successful careers. We have formulated three specific aims to facilitate the matriculation, education, and graduation of minority doctoral students at MUSC. The first specific aim is to increase the number and quality of minority students seeking a research career in the biomedical sciences. This will be done by strengthening ties to many colleges and universities with significant numbers of minority students through visits and seminar presentations by faculty and IMSD scholars. Additionally, large numbers of undergraduate students and their families are invited to our campus to attend the E.E. Just Symposium and the summer undergraduate research program. In the second specific aim we seek to facilitate the progression of minority graduate students through the PhD program. Matriculating students are exposed to both faculty and senior student interactions to provide them with a network of support. We have developed a summer review course that is offered to all incoming students prior to their first semester to better prepare them for the rigors of graduate school. We propose to expand this course to include training in a basic molecular biology laboratory to give them a toolkit of techniques to use in their laboratory rotations. The third specific aim is to prepare underrepresented minority graduate students for successful careers in the biomedical sciences. We propose a career development committee to increase interaction of graduate students with professionals at the next career stages to help them successfully navigate the steps of an academic scientific career. Internal and External Advisory Committees will provide oversight for the program. In addition, the program will be evaluated using a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Public health relevance: Projections based on U.S. census data indicate that the demographics of our nation's population will change dramatically in the next fifty years, but the composition of our healthcare and biomedical research workforce does not reflect these changing demographics. The goal of this program is to attract talented students from underrepresented groups or from disadvantaged backgrounds into careers in the biomedical sciences in order to increase the supply of investigators who are conducting active research that will impact the treatment of human diseases. Diversifying the work force in these fields will result in an improved capacity to address and eliminate health disparities and improve the quality of health care nationwide.