R25 IMSD Minority Biomedical Research Support Program (MBRS)

描述(由申请人提供)：这个新提议的IMSD项目的目标是增加少数族裔学生进入生物医学和行为研究的职业生涯的人数，而他们在这些领域的代表性不足。我们提议的综合计划将在克服罗格斯大学少数族裔和非少数族裔本科生和博士生之间仍然存在的差距方面发挥重要作用，这些学生在进入生物医学/行为研究的职业生涯中取得了进展。通过实现这一目标，我们建议的IMSD项目将改善我们的整体机构成果。为了实现这一目标，我们的目标是为我们项目的本科生和博士生提供学术和研究技能、自我效能感、动机和证书，这些技能和技能对于发展他们进入职业生涯下一个阶段--即分别是博士项目或博士后--的竞争力至关重要。因此，我们提议的IMSD项目将：“为本科生和博士生提供精心指导的、严谨的研究体验，包括有指导的概念化、表述、表现、分析、在专业科学会议上的陈述，以及发表他们自己的研究或博士论文项目；“提供一系列按顺序协调、密切和持续监测的学术和个人支持，以促进学生的最高学业水平，包括，例如，看门人课程的学术充实课程、应试技能讲习班、心理咨询服务、职业指导讲习班、指导研究生院和博士后申请程序，所有这些都旨在培养学生的职业自我效能，确保他们的个人幸福感和留任，直到他们在校园完成本科或博士培训，并帮助他们进入博士或博士后课程；通过将我们的IMSD计划与其他相关大学计划联系起来，将学生纳入学术校园社区的主流，其中最突出的是新的“花园之州LS-AMP计划”。这一重大新项目的牵头机构是罗格斯-纽瓦克分校，因此我们的校园将在其发展中发挥重要作用，这将是我们的IMSD项目的一个重要的新互动机会。“广撒网，从校内外多个地点招收有潜力的IMSD学生--特别是博士生，他们在我们校园的生物医学和行为相关系中的代表性尤其不足，包括新的花园州立大学LS-AMP项目及其参与的新泽西院校，以及纽约市大都市的院校，这些院校在相关专业领域的少数族裔学生人数严重不足，总计有数百名符合IMSD资格的学生。“通过数据收集、分析和审核我们的量化目标，并定期与IMSD参与者会面，持续监测我们IMSD项目的表现，以消除我们的IMSD学生和整个大学社区的学生之间的任何表现差距。在这一评估过程中，SageFox咨询公司将进行年度正式评估，进行访谈，提供和分析问卷，并向我们项目的学生、导师、顾问委员会和PD提供反馈和建议。”在我们IMSD本科生的量化预期结果中：被我们的IMSD项目录取的本科生中，至少90%将获得学士学位，其中至少70%将继续攻读博士或博士/医学博士课程。被我们的IMSD项目录取的博士生中，至少90%将获得博士学位，其中至少80%将进入博士后职位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this new proposed IMSD Program is to increase the number of minority students who enter careers in biomedical and behavioral research in which they are under-represented. Our proposed comprehensive program will play a significant role in overcoming the still-existing disparities, between minority and non-minority undergraduate and doctoral students at Rutgers, in their progressing into careers in biomedical/behavioral research. Through accomplishing this goal, our proposed IMSD Program will improve our overall Institutional outcomes. To accomplish this goal, our objectives are to provide the undergraduate and doctoral students in our Program with the academic and research skills, self-efficacy, motivation, and credentials that are essential to developing their competitiveness toward entering the next phases of their career - i.e., doctoral programs or postdoctorates, respectively. Thus, our proposed IMSD Program will: " Provide the undergraduate and doctoral students with a carefully-mentored, rigorous research experience that includes supervised conceptualization, formulation, performance, analysis, presentation at professional scientific conferences, and publication of their own research or doctoral dissertation project; " Provide a sequentially-coordinated, closely and continuously monitored spectrum of academic and personal support components to promote the students' highest academic performance levels, including, e.g., academic enrichment classes in gate-keeper courses, test-taking skills workshops, psychological counseling services, career guidance workshops, mentored graduate school and postdoctoral application processes, all designed to develop the students' professional self-efficacy, ensure their personal well- being and retention through to completion of their undergraduate or doctoral training on campus, and facilitate their entry into doctoral or postdoctoral programs; " "Mainstream" the students into the academic campus community by articulating our IMSD Program with other relevant University programs, prominent among which is the new "Garden State LS-AMP Program." The lead institution for this major new Program is Rutgers-Newark, so our campus will play a major role in its development, and it would be a major new interaction opportunity for our IMSD Program. " Cast a wide net to recruit potential IMSD students -- especially doctoral students, who are particularly underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral-related departments on our campus -- from multiple venues both on and off-campus, including the new Garden State LS-AMP Program and its participating New Jersey institutions, and the greater metropolitan New York City institutions with significant under- represented minority student populations totaling several hundred IMSD-eligible students in relevant major fields. " Monitor continuously the performance of our IMSD Program via data gathering, analysis, and review of our quantitative goals by the IMSD PD and staff, and regular meetings with our IMSD participants, toward eliminating any gaps in performance between our IMSD students and the students in the university community at large. Assisting in this assessment process will be annual formal evaluations by SageFox Consulting, which will perform interviews, provide and analyze questionnaires, and provide feedback and recommendations to the students, mentors, advisory board, and PD of our Program. " Among the quantitative expected outcomes for our IMSD undergraduate students: at least 90% of the undergraduates accepted into our IMSD Program will earn the baccalaureate, of whom at least 70% will proceed to enter a Ph.D. or Ph.D./M.D. program. And at least 90% of the doctoral students accepted into our IMSD Program will earn the Ph.D., of whom at least 80% will proceed to a postdoctoral position.