Diversity in Research and Medicine

描述（由申请人提供）：我们在加州大学圣地亚哥分校医学院（SOM）提出一个名为“研究和医学多样性（DIRM）计划”的新项目。这个短期项目的目标是让来自少数民族、经济或社会弱势背景以及身体残疾的本科生参加医学博士/博士项目的未来培训，并吸引他们成为一名医学科学家。来自所有这些群体的个人在医学和生物医学科学领域的代表性不足。我们的总体目标是提供一个研究密集型但专注的经验，暴露于医师-科学家培训计划的关键组成部分。培训计划的具体目标是：1)在夏季提供短期的研究密集型实验室经验，使将来能够参与学术研究工作，并促进来自未被充分代表的种族/民族或弱势背景的个人进入医学博士/博士学位。项目。2)通过与教员的临床见习体验，提高申请人对临床培训和医学家工作的理解能力。3)通过与教师和MSTP学员一起参加全校范围的活动和教学会议，激励和使学员申请并进入健康科学专业，最终在全校范围的本科学员论坛上书面和口头展示暑期学员的科学工作。加州大学圣地亚哥分校管理学院在研究和临床卓越方面有着悠久的历史，在扩大生物医学劳动力多样性方面也有丰富的经验。拟议的DIRM计划将与美国国立卫生研究院支持的MSTP计划相连接，但与之不同，MSTP是一个培养医学博士/博士的研究生水平计划。医生,科学家。符合DIRM资格的申请人必须是少数民族的本科生；经济上或社会上处于不利地位的人或有身体残疾的人。DIRM项目的独特和重要之处在于，它为这些本科生提供了一个研究密集型和临床相关的项目。重要的是，该项目将成为美国为数不多的既促进生物医学研究又促进医疗保健服务的项目之一，并专注于未来进入医学博士/博士学位。来自这些项目中代表性不足的背景的学生的项目。总的来说，这将促进他们在生物医学科学和医疗保健方面的未来培训和职业发展。通过向这些正处于成长阶段的学员提供这样的机会，我们相信这将吸引他们成为一名对心血管疾病有特殊兴趣的内科科学家。当然，我们意识到，很难预测处于训练后期的学生的最终目标，但我们最初的初步结果支持了这一信念。(摘要结束

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose here a new program at the UCSD School of Medicine (SOM) titled the Diversity in Research and Medicine (DIRM) Program. The goal of this short-term program is to introduce undergraduates who come from ethnic minorities, economically or socially disadvantaged backgrounds, as well as ones with physical disabilities to future training available in M.D./ Ph.D. programs, and attract them to a career as a physician-scientist. Individuals from all of these groups are underrepresented in medicine and biomedical sciences. Our overall goal is to provide a research-intensive but focused experience with exposure to critical components of the Physician-Scientist training program. The Specific Aims of the training program are to: 1) Provide a short-term research-intensive laboratory experience in the summer that will enable future participation in academic research efforts, and promote the entrance of individuals from underrepresented racial/ethnic or disadvantaged backgrounds into M.D./Ph.D. programs. 2) Enhance the ability of the applicants to understand the clinical training and efforts of physician-scientists by participation in a clinical shadowing experience with faculty members. 3) Motivate and enable trainees to apply to and matriculate in health science programs by participation in university-wide events and didactic conferences with faculty and MSTP trainees, culminating in written and oral presentation of the summer trainees' scientific work at a campus-wide forum for undergraduate trainees. The UCSD SOM has a long track record in research and clinical excellence, as well as experience in programs geared to amplifying the diversity of the biomedical workforce. The proposed DIRM Program will be connected to but distinct from our NIH-supported MSTP, a graduate-level program that trains M.D./Ph.D. physician- scientists. To qualify for DIRM, applicants must be undergraduate students from ethnic minority groups; economically or socially disadvantaged backgrounds or have a physical disability. The DIRM program is unique and significant in that it provides a research-intensive and clinically-connected program for these undergraduate trainees. Importantly, this program will be one of the few in the U.S that promotes both biomedical research and health care delivery and that focuses on future entrance into a M.D./Ph.D. program of students from backgrounds underrepresented in these programs. It will foster their future training and careers in biomedical sciences and healthcare, in general. By introducing such opportunities to these trainees who are at a formative age, we believe it will attract them towards a career as a physician-scientist with specific interest in cardiovascular diseases. We realize, of course, that it is difficult to predict this ultimate goal for students who are at an erly stage of their training, but our initial, preliminary results support this belief. (End of Abstract