Investing in the Future to Promote Diversity in GI Training

描述(由申请人提供)：为了扭转少数族裔和女性研究医生预计的短缺局面，美国胃肠病学会(AGA)制定了一项指导计划，以响应NIH促进多样性的资助机会专业协会计划(RFA-DK-11-014)，以吸引代表不足的少数族裔，并鼓励他们从事医学和生物医学研究事业。拟议的计划，投资未来，促进胃肠道(GI)的多样性(GI)培训，利用AGA的经验和资源，在五年内建立在成功倡议的基础上，接触到目标人数不足的群体和少数群体。关键的战略目标是招收和留住代表不足和少数族裔(URM)的学生，并促进他们的学术和专业发展。致力于实现这些目标的AGA委员会包括学术医学和科学、社区医生、实习生、URM、妇女和国际同事。AGA建议在投资未来计划(IFP)的基础上，将重点放在历史上黑人教育机构的医学生和GI研究员身上，并扩大URM学生加入AGA的学生研究奖学金计划。这两个项目都为学生提供了一系列基础、翻译、临床和人口研究的职业和机会，并鼓励他们攻读医学博士和医学博士/博士学位。四位备受尊敬的学术胃肠病专家(即Maria Abreu、Rick Boland、Bishr Oary、Vince Yang)具有数十年的项目负责人和导师经验，他们将担任联合首席调查员(co-PI)，对这些工作进行行政监督。此外，14名教职员工将与共同的个人投资顾问一起担任导师，在五年的拨款期间及以后与选定的受训者合作。目标包括1)培养和增强URM参与者将胃肠病学作为一个特别关注研究职业的专业的兴趣，2)在5年内评估和跟踪选定的学员，以及3)撰写并向医学界传播关于该项目的最佳实践。该提案的具体目标是：目标1：扩大对未来的投资计划，以历史悠久的黑人医学院中代表性不足的少数族裔为目标；目标2：扩大目前的URM学生研究奖学金计划，并提供广泛的潜在导师和研究机会；以及目标3：在AGA赞助的国家会议，包括年度消化系统疾病周和学术技能研讨会内，建立一个以URM为重点的教育和研究论坛。AGA支持支持多样性倡议的传统由来已久。拟议中的计划延续了这一传统，以最大限度地扩大进入胃肠和肝病领域的有才华的年轻人的人才库，并为日益多样化的美国人口服务。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): To reverse the projected shortfall of minority and female research physicians, the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) has developed a mentoring program in response to the NIH funding opportunity Professional Society Programs to Promote Diversity (RFA-DK-11-014) to engage underrepresented minorities and encourage them to pursue careers in medical and biomedical research. The proposed program, Investing in the Future to Promote Diversity in Gastrointestinal (GI) Training, leverages the experience and resources of the AGA to build upon successful initiatives that reach targeted underrepresented and minority groups over a five-year period. Critical strategic objectives are to recruit and retain underrepresented and minority (URM) students and to foster their academic and professional development. AGA committees working to achieve these goals include academic medicine and science, community physicians, trainees, URMs, women, and international colleagues. AGA proposes to build upon the Investing in the Future Program (IFP) by focusing on medical students and GI fellows at historically black educational institutions as well as expand recruitment of URM students into AGA's Student Research Fellowship Award Program. Both programs expose students to a range of basic, translational, clinical, and population research careers and opportunities as well as encourage them to pursue M.D. and M.D. /Ph.D. programs. Four highly respected academic gastroenterologists (i.e., Maria Abreu, Rick Boland, Bishr Omary, Vince Yang) with decades of experience as program leaders and mentors will serve as co-principal investigators (co-PIs) to provide administrative oversight of these efforts. In addition, 14 faculty members, together with the co-PIs, will serve as mentors to work with selected mentees over the 5-year period of the grant and beyond. Objectives include 1) nurture and strengthen interest of URM participants in pursuing gastroenterology as a specialization with special focus on research careers, 2) evaluate and track selected mentees over a 5-year period, and 3) write up and disseminate best practices to the medical community on this program. Specific aims of the proposal are: Aim 1: Expand Investing in the Future Program to target underrepresented minorities at historically black medical colleges; Aim 2: Expand current URM Student Research Fellowship Award Program and offer a wide menu of potential mentors and research opportunities; and Aim 3: Build a URM-focused education and research forum within AGA-sponsored national meetings, including the annual Digestive Disease Week and Academic Skills Workshop. AGA has a long tradition of supporting pro-diversity initiatives. The proposed program extends this tradition to maximize the pool of talented young people entering the field of GI and hepatology and to serve the increasingly diverse U.S. population.