RISE Option III: Ponce School of Medicine MBRS-RISE Program

庞塞医学院（PSM）要求继续NIH/NIGMS支持其成功的MBRS少数民族科学增强研究倡议（RISE）计划，该计划即将进入其第一个资助周期的最后一年。PSM MBRS- RISE计划的总体目标是提高从波多黎各PSM生物医学科学博士课程毕业的代表性不足的西班牙裔学生的竞争力，并增加代表性不足的学生晋升到有竞争力的博士后职位的人数。PSM MBRS-RISE计划（12名学员）在上一个周期对我们的博士生培训和整个PSM社区产生了积极影响。所有学员都有效地遵守标准，留在程序，并与博士课程的时间轴的轨道上;此外，几个过渡到独立的奖学金，现在正在毕业。我们的计划切实改善并达到了我们第一个融资周期中建立的基准。我们预计，这一更新申请将建立在这些成功的基础上，并适应几个重要的经验教训，从而继续我们的演变，从一个“非常好”的一个“优秀”的培训计划。拟议的申请将进一步改善我们已经成功的研究生课程的几个领域，包括高素质的申请人数量，专业研究生课程和研讨会的可用性，财政援助，指导研究生专业计划的准备，以及我们的评估系统的完善，以监测我们的研究生，并为不断改进我们的学生的培训提供方向。该计划建议通过提高我们代表性不足的少数民族学生的学术，研究，个人和专业能力来实现这些目标，以更好地为他们在生物医学科学领域的职业生涯做好准备。PSM RISE计划的具体可衡量目标是：（1）为PSM MBRS-RISE学员提供“动手”专业发展和研究技能培训;（2）为PSM MBRS-RISE学员提供沟通技能培训;以及（3）为PSM MBRS-RISE学员提供团队建设/建立网络的机会。这些目标中的每一个都将与持续的活动保持平衡，这些活动非常有效，以及为满足学生的新需求而开发的一套新的战略培训内容。PSM MBRS-RISE计划将与现有的MBRS-SCORE和RCMI计划协同工作，通过提供训练有素的学生队伍来进行资助的研究项目，并提供创建新研究计划的动力，从而对整体研究计划产生重大影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Ponce School of Medicine (PSM) requests continued NIH/NIGMS support for its successful MBRS Minority Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) program which is about to enter the final year of its first cycle of funding. The overall goal of the PSM MBRS- RISE Program is to increase the competitiveness of underrepresented Hispanic students graduating from the Biomedical Sciences Ph.D program at PSM in Puerto Rico, and to increase the number of underrepresented students who advance to competitive postdoctoral positions. The PSM MBRS-RISE program (12 trainees) had a positive impact on the training of our PhD students and on the entire PSM community during the previous cycle. All trainees are effectively complying with criteria to remain in the program and are on track with the PhD program timeline; moreover several transitioned onto independent fellowships and are now graduating. Our program tangibly improved and achieved the benchmarks established in our first cycle of funding. We anticipate that this renewal application will build upon those successes and adapt to several important lessons learned, thus continuing our evolution from a "very good" to an "excellent" training program. The proposed application will further improve several areas of our already successful graduate program including the number of highly-qualified applicants, the availability of specialized graduate courses and workshops, financial assistance, mentoring in preparation for post-graduate professional plans, and refinement of our evaluation system to monitor our graduate students and provide direction for continually improving the training of our students. The program proposes to accomplish these goals through enhancement of the academic, research, personal, and professional competence of our underrepresented minority students to better prepare them for careers in the biomedical sciences. The specific measurable objectives of the PSM RISE program are to provide: (1) "hands-on" professional development and research skills training for PSM MBRS-RISE trainees; (2) communication skills training for PSM MBRS-RISE trainees; and (3) team building/networking opportunities for PSM MBRS- RISE trainees. Each of these objectives will be pursued with a balance of continuing activities that were highly effective as well as a strategic set of new training components that were developed to address the emerging needs of our students. The PSM MBRS-RISE program will work in concert with existing MBRS-SCORE and RCMI programs to significantly impact the overall research program by providing a better trained student workforce to conduct the funded research projects and provide the momentum to create new research initiatives.