Short-Term Research Education Program to Increase Diversity in Health Research

摘要 在过去的15年里，芝加哥大学普利兹克医学院一直致力于增加生物医学研究队伍的多样性。少数群体和处境不利的科学家在现代临床和基础科学研究中的代表性尤其不足，很少有这类个人受到鼓励从事学术事业。通过增加与健康相关的研究的多样性的短期研究教育计划，及早接触到研究机会，提供了一种机制，丰富了大学和医学生层面上少数族裔和弱势学生的经验，以建立在科学领域的立足点，这可能为生物医学研究的进一步职业发展奠定基础。要求资助一个为期8周的本科生课程，重点研究心脏、血管、血管和肺的疾病及其治疗。少数群体和处境不利的学生将从国家人才库中招募，并将使用在线申请来收集数据，供PSOMER指导委员会评估候选人。被选中的参与者将具有非凡的学术能力和对生物医学研究的动力。还要求资助一个为期12周的医科学生项目，进行上述科学领域的研究。普利兹克夏季研究指导委员会将根据研究提案的优点、导师的实力以及在拟议项目可用时间内完成的研究计划的合理性，选择有兴趣考虑学术医学职业生涯的普利兹克少数族裔和弱势医学生参加研究机会。这两个计划的目标都是帮助少数族裔和弱势学生开始生物医学职业生涯，因此将实施严格的跟踪计划来评估该计划的成功。继续在密歇根大学的指导环境 芝加哥是通过与普利兹克的鲍曼协会的项目相联系而培养起来的。这项措施的目的是支持倾向少数群体的个人发展，以追求学术生涯的道路。它每两个月举行一次会议，有可能培养那些在医学生涯早期接触过生物医学研究的参与者。

Abstract For the past 15 years, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine has been strongly committed to increasing the diversity within the biomedical research workforce. Minority and disadvantaged scientists are particularly underrepresented in modern clinical and basic science research and few such individuals are encouraged to embark upon academic careers. Early exposure to research opportunities through the Short Term Research Education Program to Increase Diversity in Health-Related Research provides a mechanism to enrich the experiences of minority and disadvantaged students at the college and medical student level to establish a foothold in science that may provide the underpinnings for further career development in biomedical research. Support is requested to fund an 8-week undergraduate program in research focused on the diseases and treatments thereof of the heart, blood vessels, blood, and lungs. Minority and disadvantaged students will be recruited from a national pool and an online application will be used to collect data for evaluation of candidates by the PSOMER Steering Committee. The selected participants will be of exceptional scholastic ability and motivation for biomedical research. Support is also requested to fund a 12-week medical student program in research in the scientific areas mentioned above. Minority and disadvantaged medical students enrolled at Pritzker who express an interest in considering an academic medicine career will be selected for a research opportunity by the Pritzker Summer Research Steering Committee on the basis of the merit of the research proposal, strength of the mentor, and the soundness of the research plan to be accomplished in the time available to the proposed project. The goals of both programs are to help to initiate careers in biomedicine among minority and disadvantaged students, and thus a rigorous tracking plan is to be implemented to evaluate the success of the program. Continuation of the mentored environment at the University of Chicago is fostered through the association of the programs with the Bowman Society at Pritzker. The aim of this measure is to support the development of inclined minority individuals to pursue academic career pathways. It meets bimonthly and has the potential for nurturing participants who have been exposed to biomedical research early in their careers in medicine.