Advancing Child Health: Preparing the Next Generation of Pediatric Researchers.

 描述(由申请者提供)：这项建议的长期目标是培养基础、临床和转化性儿童健康研究的领导者。这些未来的领导者将作为儿科的下一代创新者，致力于开创性的进步，确保儿童从出生到成年都过着健康和富有成效的生活，没有疾病或残疾。为此，本文概述的研究教育计划旨在维持、扩大和补充费城儿童医院(CHOP)为期10周的本科儿科暑期研究实习试点-CHOP研究所暑期学者计划(CRISSP)-最终目标是培养具备独特资质的学生，这些学生准备好在生物医学研究队伍中取得成功并促进其发展。该计划每年为25名经过竞争挑选的实习生提供研究指导培训，将通过在暑期体验中增加四项核心增强功能来实现这一目标：掌握研究技能的正式指导和实践辅导、基于研讨会和个性化的职业探索培训、为计划教职员工和学生提供的课堂指导指导，以及一个新颖的“行动指导”计划，在该计划中，本科生参与者与主要为少数族裔服务的高中的学生建立指导关系。这些拟议的增强措施是CHOP暑期实习计划独一无二的，将培养一支杰出的年轻科学家领导者队伍，他们具有欣赏儿科和儿童健康研究、技术熟练程度、职业和研究指导的重要性以及多样性的价值。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of this proposal is to develop leaders in basic, clinical, and translational child health research. These future leaders will serv as the next generation of innovators in pediatrics, dedicated to pioneering advances that ensure children lead healthy and productive lives, free from disease or disability, from birth to adulthood. Toward this end, the research education program outlined herein is designed to sustain, expand and supplement a piloted 10-week undergraduate summer pediatric research internship at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) - the CHOP Research Institute Summer Scholars Program (CRISSP) - with the ultimate goal of creating uniquely qualified students who are primed to both succeed in and foster the biomedical research workforce pipeline. The program, which provides mentored research training to 25 competitively-chosen student interns annually, will achieve this goal by adding four core enhancements to the summer experience: formalized instruction and hands-on tutelage in mastering research techniques, workshop-based and individualized career exploration training, in-classroom mentorship instruction for both program faculty and students, and a novel "mentorship-in-action" program wherein undergraduate participants form mentoring relationships with students from primarily underrepresented minority-serving high schools. These proposed enhancements, unique to the CHOP summer internship program, will create an exceptional cadre of young scientist-leaders, gifted with an appreciation for pediatrics and child health research, technical proficiency, the importance of career and research mentoring, and the value of diversity.