University of Pennsylvania Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching

描述（申请人提供）：我们要求继续支持宾夕法尼亚大学的博士后研究和教学机会（PENN-PORT）计划，它提供了在宾夕法尼亚大学与我们在医学，兽医和牙科学院的杰出研究人员之一的高超指导博士后研究经验的结合，艺术与科学学院或费城儿童医院，并为博士后任命者提供发展教学技能的机会。教学指导包括宾夕法尼亚州教育研究生院为期一个学期的正式教学方法课程，以及在少数民族服务合作伙伴机构的指导教学经验，这些机构位于以下之一：林肯大学，美国历史上最古老的黑人大学，卡姆登的Rutger大学校园和特拉华州县社区学院。参与机构的课堂教学由其最有经验的教师监督。该计划的一个主要目标是鼓励本科生，特别是那些来自代表性不足的群体，在合作机构追求科学，在生物医学科学研究生教育，和生物医学科学事业的主要。PENN-PORT计划的另一个目标是增加准备充分的生物医学课堂教育工作者，他们也是非常合格的研究科学家。在前一个（也是第一个）资助期内，该方案一半以上的被任命者是代表性不足的少数民族。因此，我们也在处理增加少数民族进入学术生涯的人数的需要。我们的第三个目标是加强合作机构的研究型教学，并促进宾夕法尼亚大学教师与合作伙伴少数民族服务机构之间的研究和教学合作。在此资助期间，我们通过提供暑期工资，在宾夕法尼亚大学的实验室度过夏天，提高了三个少数民族教师的研究能力。 该计划已由综合学习创新公司进行外部评估，世卫组织确定了我们将在下一个供资期应对的挑战。 公共卫生相关性：多样性对于扩大我们的知识基础至关重要，因为它为关键问题提供了不同的观点和方法。 这一点在为医疗保健提供进步的生物医学研究等领域尤为重要。然而，在这个国家，代表性不足的少数民族只占生物医学研究人员的一小部分。 PENN-PORT计划旨在解决这一问题，并增加来自代表性不足群体的生物医学研究人员的数量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We are requesting continued support for the University of Pennsylvania's Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching (PENN-PORT) Program, which provides a combination of a superb mentored postdoctoral research experience at the University of Pennsylvania with one of our distinguished investigators in the Schools of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and Dental Medicine, the College of Arts and Science or the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and an opportunity for postdoctoral appointees to develop teaching skills. Instruction in teaching consists of a formal semester long course in pedagogical methods from the Graduate School of Education at PENN as well as a mentored teaching experience at a minority serving partner institution, which takes place at one of the following: Lincoln University, the nation's oldest historically Black university, the Rutger University campus at Camden, and Delaware County Community College. The classroom teaching at the participating institutions is supervised by their most experienced teaching faculty. A major objective of the program is to encourage undergraduate students, particularly those from under-represented groups, at partner institutions to pursue a major in the sciences, graduate education in the biomedical sciences, and a biomedical scientific career. A further objective of the PENN-PORT Program is to increase the pool of well-prepared biomedical classroom educators who are also extremely well qualified research scientists. During the previous (and first) funding period more than half of the appointees to this program have been under-represented minorities. Thus we are also addressing the need to increase the number of minorities entering academic careers. Our third objective is to enhance research-oriented teaching at partner institutions and foster collaboration in research and teaching between the faculty at PENN and that of partner minority- serving institutions. In this funding period we have enhanced the research capacity of three minority faculty by providing a summer salary to spend the summer in a laboratory at PENN. The program has been externally evaluated by Integrated Learning Innovations Inc., who has identified challenges that we will address in the next funding period. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Diversity is critical to expanding our knowledge base, as it provides different viewpoints and approaches to crucial problems. This is especially important in areas such as biomedical research that provides advances in health care. However, under-represented minorities comprise only a small percentage of biomedical researchers in this country. The PENN-PORT program aims to address this problem and increase the number of biomedical researchers from under-represented groups.