Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium

描述(由申请者提供)：东南医学科学家研讨会(SEMSS)成立于2010年，由阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校(UAB)、埃默里大学和范德比尔特大学医学科学家培训项目(MSTP)的学生创建。这三个项目已经共同主办了三年的研讨会，地点在伯明翰(2010)、亚特兰大(2011)和纳什维尔(2012)之间轮流举行。研讨会的目的是鼓励在美国东南部地区建立一个协作和跨学科的教育环境。这个完全由学生组织的研讨会旨在促进东南部多个机构的医学博士/博士学生之间的联系，使学生接触到学术医生职业生涯中固有的趋势、挑战和机会。每个SEMSS的计划包括三个主题演讲者演讲、多个特定主题的分组会议、MSTP学生研究海报会议和社交活动。分组会议分为MD/博士生和本科生感兴趣的会议。会议持续了两天，会议内容从周六下午早些时候开始，到周日下午早些时候结束。SEMSS的目标受众是东南部培训项目中的医学博士/博士学生，以及东南部机构的医学博士学生和本科生，他们对未来的内科科学家职业感兴趣。这个研讨会的另一个目的是让本科生接触内科科学家实习生和教职员工，以培养对职业生涯的兴奋。 学术医学和增加未来内科科学家的管道。我们认为，对来自该地区的本科生的这种额外关注对于我们加强来自医学(URIM)背景的学生的渠道至关重要，因为根据美国新闻和世界报道，历史上排名前20的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)中有9所位于阿拉巴马州、佐治亚州、田纳西州、密西西比州或路易斯安那州。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium (SEMSS) was established in 2010 by students from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Emory University, and Vanderbilt University Medical Scientist Training Programs (MSTPs). The three programs have co-hosted the symposium for three years with the location rotating among Birmingham (2010), Atlanta (2011), and Nashville (2012). The objective of the symposium is to encourage a collaborative and interdisciplinary educational environment within the Southeast region of the United States. This fully student-organized symposium seeks to foster connections between the MD/PhD students at multiple institutions across the Southeast, exposing students to trends, challenges, and opportunities inherent in careers of academic physicians. The program of each SEMSS has included three keynote speaker presentations, multiple topic-specific breakout sessions, MSTP student research poster sessions, and social events. The breakout sessions are divided into sessions of interest to MD/PhD students and undergraduates. The meetings have spanned two days, with content starting in the early afternoon on a Saturday and ending in the early afternoon on Sunday. The target audience for the SEMSS is MD/PhD students in training programs in the southeast and MD students and undergraduate students at southeastern institutions who have an interest in future careers as physician-scientists. An additional purpose of this symposium is to expose undergraduate students to physician-scientist trainees and faculty in order to foster excitement about careers in academic medicine and increase the pipeline of future physician-scientists. We think that this additional focus on undergraduate students from the region is critical to our purpose of enhancing the pipeline of students from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine (URIM), as according to US News and World Report, nine of the top twenty historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are located in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, or Louisiana.