HopkinsPREP: Research, Community, Professional Training and Personal Growth

 描述(由申请者提供)：这是约翰霍普金斯大学医学院创新的新的研究生研究教育计划(PREP)的修订申请。每年，该项目将挑选6名应届大学毕业生，他们的背景在科学界的代表性不足，他们渴望从事博士研究工作，并将从一年的密集研究经验和指导中受益匪浅。我们的计划将为这些有前途的年轻科学家进入严格的博士培训计划，并取得长期成功做好准备。一项由霍普金斯大学支持的为期两天的新活动(巴尔的摩的招聘和导师匹配面试)将为每位学者匹配匹配的热情研究导师。预科奖学金将有四个核心经验。研究：学者将在导师的实验室设计、进行和分析假设驱动的实验，并与博士生和博士后一起参加每周的实验室会议、期刊俱乐部和部门研究研讨会。学者们将在每年的两次博士项目务虚会、一次地区性预备会议和一次全国会议上展示他们的研究成果。社区：学者们将每月与同行导师(代表不足的少数族裔博士生和博士后)和预科教师组成的专门核心小组会面。9个活动将是“粉笔谈话”午餐，在那里，学者们将提供和接受科学反馈，并了解我们的预科社区；另外3个活动将在校外举行(例如，金莺、交响乐、教职员工家中的晚宴)。专业培训：学者将与博士生一起参加旨在提高口语和写作沟通技能的研讨会(介绍您的研究；撰写论文)，了解博士职业选择，并提高他们的人际交往技能(Meyers-Briggs类型)。个人成长：主任和学者将制定个人行动计划，以解决任何特定的弱点，必须克服的长期博士事业成功。学者们将通过有指导的三方对话，就他们的研究和实验室环境给予和接收早期反馈，并在预科主任教授的两个个性化工作坊中进一步提高他们的写作技能。每个计划组成部分的结果和影响每年都将由一名外部评估员进行严格评估，并传达给机构咨询委员会，后者将推动年度计划改进。结果将在地区预科研讨会或全国会议上与其他预科主任讨论，并与其他预科项目的数据汇集在一起以供出版。成功将被定义为至少75%的预科学者在开始预科两年内进入全国范围内严格的博士课程。该计划预计将创建一个跨代科学指导社区，鼓励完成博士学位并晋升到教员职位和其他博士职业。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a revised application for an innovative new Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Each year this program will select six recent college graduates from backgrounds underrepresented in science that desire PhD research careers and would benefit substantially from a year of intensive research experience and mentoring. Our program will prepare these promising young scientists for entry into rigorous PhD training programs, and long-term success. A new Hopkins-supported two-day event (recruitment and mentor-matching interviews in Baltimore) will match each Scholar with compatible and enthusiastic research Mentors. PREP Scholars will have four core experiences. RESEARCH: Scholars will design, conduct and analyze hypothesis-driven experiments in the mentor's lab, and participate with PhD students and postdocs in weekly lab meetings, journal clubs and departmental research seminars. Scholars will present their research results at two PhD program retreats, a regional PREP conference and one national meeting each year. COMMUNITY: Scholars will meet every month with a dedicated core group of Peer Mentors (underrepresented minority PhD students and postdocs) and PREP Faculty. Nine events will be 'chalk-talk' lunches, where Scholars will give and receive scientific feedback and get to know our PREP community; three more events will be held off-campus (e.g., Orioles, symphony, dinner at faculty home). PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: Scholars will participate alongside PhD students in workshops designed to improve spoken and written communication skills (Presenting your Research; Writing a Paper), learn about PhD career options, and improve their inter-personal skills (Meyers-Briggs Type). PERSONAL GROWTH: The Director and Scholar will create an individual action plan to address any specific weaknesses that must be overcome for long-term PhD career success. Scholars will give and receive early feedback about their research and lab environment via mentored three-way conversations, and further improve their writing skills in two personalized workshops taught by the PREP Director. The outcomes and impact of each program component will be critically evaluated each year by an External Evaluator, and communicated to the Institutional Advisory Board, who will drive yearly program improvements. Outcomes will be discussed with other PREP Directors at regional PREP symposia or national meetings and pooled with data from other PREP programs for publication. Success will be defined as the entry of at least 75% of PREP scholars into rigorous PhD programs nationwide, within two years of starting this PREP. This program is expected to create an inter-generational scientific mentoring community that encourages PhD completion and progression to faculty positions and other PhD careers.