SDSU Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (SDSU IMSD)

SDSU IMSD计划 项目总结 SDSU最大限度促进学生发展计划(IMSD)的总体目标是增加 来自代表性不足群体中获得生物医学、物理学和医学博士学位的人数 行为科学。我们将促进他们接触科学、学术和作为研究人员的职业。这个 该计划将为25名本科生提供教师指导、定制咨询、课外体验 以及在项目期间每年与参与其中的同行进行交流的机会。我们 我们已经组建了一个专门的研究导师小组，他们将为我们的学生提供实践经验 研究训练。我们的管理和评估计划将衡量和确保项目和学生 成功。我们将为学生提供高度个性化的体验，让他们成为 未来成功的科学领袖，从而提高研究科学家的多样性。此外， 我们提供了我们的计划对学生产生的影响的文件。我们的计划将继续提供帮助 学生建立强大的，竞争激烈的博士项目申请，以便他们将直接进入 STEM博士项目(过去5年，我们的平均直接博士录取率为88.2%)。至 为了实现我们的目标，我们计划(1)提供全年指导的研究体验，这将允许25 本科生获得优秀的研究和实验室技能，(2)继续我们的预科IMSD 提前招收STEM大一/大二学生计划(非IMSD资助)介绍生物医学 研究和准备研究生的途径，以及(3)培养批判性思维和口头和 所有项目参与者的书面沟通技能，通过提供展示他们的研究的机会 在专业观众面前，并为出版的手稿投稿。我们还提出了与以下方面相关的目标 计划评估包括：(1)采用混合方法系统地衡量计划结果 收集定量和定性数据并建立全面的电子跟踪 数据库，(2)使用数据通过维护最重要的元素来持续改进程序 有效，以及(3)宣传SDSU管理与可持续发展学院项目的成功。

SDSU IMSD Program PROJECT SUMMARY The overall aim of the SDSU Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) Program is to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups who attain Ph.D. degrees in the biomedical, physical and behavioral sciences. We will facilitate their exposure to science, academia and careers as researchers. The program will provide 25 undergraduates with faculty mentoring, customized advising, extracurricular experiences and opportunities for communicating with engaged peers each year during the course of the project period. We have assembled a dedicated group of research-active mentors who will provide our students with hands-on research training. Our management and assessment plan will measure and ensure program and student success. We will provide a highly personalized experience to the students so that they can become the successful science leaders of tomorrow, and thereby, improve the diversity of research scientists. Furthermore, we provide documentation of the effects our program has had upon students. Our program will continue to help students to build strong, highly competitive applications for doctoral programs so that they will directly enter into STEM Ph.D. programs (we have an average direct Ph.D. acceptance rate of 88.2% in the last 5 years). To accomplish our goals, we plan to (1) provide year-round mentored research experiences that will allow 25 IMSD undergraduate students to acquire excellent research and laboratory skills, (2) continue with our Pre-IMSD Program to recruit STEM freshman/sophomore students early (unfunded by IMSD) to introduce biomedical research and the pathway to preparing for graduate school, and (3) develop the critical thinking and oral and written communication skills of all program participants, by providing opportunities to present their research before professional audiences and to contribute to manuscripts for publication. We also propose aims related to program evaluation including (1) to systematically measure program outcomes with mixed methods of quantitative and qualitative data collection and the establishment of a comprehensive electronic tracking database, (2) to use the data to continuously improve the program by maintaining elements that are most effective, and (3) to communicate the success of the SDSU IMSD Program.