Project Pipeline Baltimore: A Brain Sciences Program for High School Students

描述（由申请人提供）：估计有1300万美国成年人和儿童患有精神疾病，精神健康障碍是美国残疾的主要原因，经常导致过早死亡。目前迫切需要进行研究，以了解精神健康障碍发展的基本机制，并找到更好的工具来识别有风险的人，以及找到减轻痛苦的疗法和方法。这一努力的成功需要发挥所有美国公民的潜能。目前，艾滋病毒相关科学和其他神经和心理健康科学的多样性极低。在另一方面，少数民族仍然不成比例地受到艾滋病毒/艾滋病的影响，必须作出更多努力，使这些社区的成员参与科学事业、医学、心理健康和行为科学。STEM领域75%的大学生决定在高中学习科学。因此，针对这个早期阶段的学生有可能产生巨大的可衡量的积极影响，为神经科学和心理健康输送来自不同背景的合格临床医生/科学家。我们相信这里所描述的项目可以填补脑科学管道的一个关键空白，在巴尔的摩市和周边大都市区，在他们做出关键职业道路选择的早期阶段，吸引聪明的、代表性不足的学生。我们的总体假设是，在巴尔的摩市公立学校接受教育的学生中，如果有适当的大学前接触，聪明、聪明、学术能力强、代表性不足的学生可以成功地完成科学/医学职业生涯的高级学位。通过在约翰霍普金斯大学医学院为期8周的暑期实习项目，实习生将获得批判性思维技能，并在负责任的研究中运用科学方法。实习生将通过研讨会、大型查房和临床实习获得脑科学和心理健康许多领域的知识。实习生将通过镜像、指导和丰富活动获得专业技能，他们将与霍普金斯大学的教师、本科生、研究生和博士后进行讨论和互动。通过这些方式，实习生将获得有关科学和医学领域各种职业道路的知识。将通过外联讨论会特别注意小学一级人数不足的男生。通过有形的一对一联系，最好是由一个小型的，高影响力的项目提供直接指导，有机会在诊所跟随神经科医生和精神科医生，以及实际的基础和临床研究经验，我们可以重新编程思维方式，扩大这些年轻人在大脑和心理健康科学领域的职业生涯的可能性。事实上，我们的初步数据表明，这一目标是可行的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): With an estimated thirteen-million American adults and children afflicted, mental health disorders are a leading cause of disability in the United States often leading to premature death. Research aimed at understanding the fundamental mechanisms involved in the development of mental health disorders, as well as better tools to identify those at risk, and therapies and approaches to alleviate suffering are urgently needed. Success in this endeavor requires harnessing the human potential of all citizens of the USA. Currently, diversity within HIV- related and other neurological and mental health sciences is extremely low. At the other spectrum, ethnic minorities remain disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS and more effort must be made to engage members of these communities in the scientific enterprise, medicine, and mental health and behavioral sciences. Seventy-five percent of college students in STEM fields decide in high school to study science. Therefore, targeting students at this early stage has the potential to have a large measureable positive impact on feeding the neuroscience and mental health pipeline with qualified clinician/scientists from diverse backgrounds. We believe the herein described program could fill a critical gap in the brain sciences pipeline by attracting bright under-represented students in Baltimore city and the surrounding metropolitan area at the very earliest stages when they are making critical career pathway choices. Our overall hypothesis is that provided with the right pre-college exposure, bright, intelligent, academically capable under-represented students educated in Baltimore City public schools can successfully complete an advanced degree in a science/medicine career tract. Through an 8-week summer internship program at the Johns Hopkins Medical campus, interns will gain critical thinking skills and employ the scientific method in the responsible conduct of research. Interns will gain knowledge about many fields of brain sciences and mental health through seminars, grand rounds, and clinic shadowing. Interns will gain skills in professionalism through mirroring, mentoring, and enrichment activities where they will have discussions and interactions with Hopkins faculty, undergraduates, graduates and postdoctoral fellows. Through these means interns will gain knowledge about a variety of career paths in science and medicine. Special attention will be given to under-represented male students at the elementary school level through outreach seminars. Through tangible one-to-one connections, best served by a small, high-impact program providing direct mentoring, opportunities to shadow neurologists and psychiatrists in the clinic, and hands-on basic and clinical research experiences, we can reprogram the mindset and expand the horizon of possibilities for a career in brain and mental health sciences for these youth. Indeed, our preliminary data suggests that this goal is feasible.