Short-Term Training in Biomedical Research for Under-Represented Minorities

描述(由申请人提供)：这是一份修订后的申请，申请竞争续订NHLBI少数民族学生短期研究培训计划，该计划自1999年以来一直在佛罗里达大学实施。该培训计划的目的是为本科生和卫生专业学校的学生提供为期十周的活跃研究实验室体验，为他们提供涵盖年轻科学家感兴趣和需要的主题的教学材料。该项目招收的学生在医学领域的代表性将偏低(少数族裔、残疾或弱势学生)。该培训计划的拟议更新计划是为了广泛接触佛罗里达大学健康科学中心的三所学院的心血管、肺部和血液学研究。这项拟议的培训计划的教职员工横跨几个系。我们希望这个项目捕捉心血管科学的兴趣和方法的多样性，提供三所大学(医学、药房和兽医)的教授的快照，他们的研究兴趣重叠但学术使命不同，为我们的学员提供了丰富的科学可能性，超越了有时天真的医疗实践概念。大多数教员直接参与研究，这些研究很容易被识别为心血管、肺或心肾研究。该项目的负责人是查尔斯·E·伍德博士，他是一位著名的心血管生理学家，对了解胎儿心血管系统的反射控制做出了重要贡献。伍德博士将在系主任办公室和少数民族事务办公室(OMA)指导相关活动。学员的遴选由一个委员会完成，该委员会由四名教职员工组成，他们都是加州大学医学院教职员工的领导成员。培训期间提供的讲座和培训研讨会的选择和监督将由伍德博士以项目主任的身份完成。该项目的结构设计为8-10周的指导性实验室体验，包括每周一次的系列讲座，旨在向学生介绍学术科学和博士培训项目的结构。学生还将被要求参加一个关于负责任的研究行为的短期课程。提出了一项评估项目有效性的计划，该计划将评估职业目标、感知到的障碍、学术研究职业的知识以及高等教育研究方面的知识。该评估计划将作为5年后关于这种本科生研究性培训模式有效性的报告的基础。在项目结束时，OMA会对受训者进行跟踪。鼓励学生申请这个项目的第二个暑期。在适当的时候，鼓励个别学生申请佛罗里达大学的各种研究生课程，特别是生物医学科学的跨学科课程，也可以申请博士、医学博士、D.V.M.和药学博士课程。我们希望让我们的学员意识到基础研究的力量，特别是在心血管科学方面，这样他们就会有动力选择研究领域的职业，并成功地启动研究生水平的培训。如果我们改善学术科学中代表性不足的少数群体的招聘和成功，我们就会取得成功。公共卫生相关性：该计划旨在增加来自代表性不足人群(少数民族、残疾学生和弱势背景学生)选择生物医学科学职业的学生数量。长期目标是通过增加进行假说驱动研究的科学家的多样性来加强生物医学科学的有效性和相关性。(摘要结束)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a revised application for competitive renewal of the NHLBI Short-Term Research Training for Minority Students program which has been in place at the University of Florida since 1999. The purpose of this training program is to offer undergraduate students and students in health professional schools a ten week experience in an active research laboratory, to offer them didactic material covering topics of interest to, and needed by, young scientists. The students recruited into this program will be underrepresented in medical science (under-represented minorities, disabled, or disadvantaged students). The proposed renewal of this training program is planned as a broad- based exposure to research in cardiovascular, pulmonary, and hematologic research in three colleges of the University of Florida Health Science Center. The faculty for this proposed training program spans several departments. We want this program to capture the diversity of interests and approaches to cardiovascular science, to offer a snapshot of professors in three colleges (Medicine, Pharmacy, and Veterinary Medicine) with overlapping research interests but different academic missions, to offer to our trainees a wealth of possibilities in science beyond what are sometimes naive notions of medical practice. Most of the faculty are directly involved in research which is easily identifiable as cardiovascular, pulmonary, or cardiorenal research. The program director is Charles E. Wood, Ph.D., a well-known developmental cardiovascular physiologist who has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the reflex control of the fetal cardiovascular system. Dr. Wood will direct the relevant activities in the office of the department chairman's office as well as the Office of Minority Affairs (OMA). Selection of trainees is done by a committee consisting of four faculty members, all leading members of the U.F. College of Medicine faculty. Selection and oversight of lectures and training seminars offered during the training program will be done by Dr. Wood in his role as program director. The structure of the program is designed to be an 8-10 week mentored laboratory experience with an overarching weekly lecture series that will is designed to inform students about the structure of academic science and doctoral training programs. The students will also be required to attend a short course in the Responsible Conduct of Research. A plan for evaluation of program effectiveness is proposed that will assess career goals, perceived barriers, knowledge of academic research careers, and knowledge of higher education in research. The evaluation plan will be used as the basis of a report, after 5 years, of effectiveness of this modality of research training for undergraduates. At the end of the program, the trainees are tracked by the OMA. Students are encouraged to apply for a second summer in this program. When appropriate, individual students are encouraged to apply to the various graduate programs at the University of Florida, especially to the Interdisciplinary Program in Biomedical Sciences, but also to Ph.D., M.D., D.V.M., and Pharm.D. programs. We want to make our trainees aware of the power of basic research, especially in the cardiovascular sciences, so that they will be motivated to choose careers in research and to successfully initiate graduate-level training. We will be a success if we improve recruitment and success of under-represented minorities in academic science. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This program is designed to increase the number of students from under-represented populations (minorities, students with disabilities, and students from disadvantaged backgrounds) choosing careers in biomedical science. The long-term goal is to strengthen the effectiveness and relevance of biomedical science by increasing the diversity of the scientists who are performing hypothesis-driven research. (End of Abstract)