LLU-NIH Initiative for Maximizing Student Development

描述（由申请人提供）：培养一支多样化和有能力的科学队伍对于促进创新和产生有价值的生物医学研究是必不可少的。实现这一目标对于找到治疗影响人类的疾病和消除已成为我们整个社会负担的健康差距也至关重要。十多年来，洛马琳达大学（LLU）一直与国家普通医学科学研究所合作，以应对这一重要的国家挑战。LLU-NIH最大化学生多样性计划倡议（LLU-NIH IMSD计划）在增加机构多样性方面取得了成功。此外，基于结果的教育计划的实施提高了在我们的生物医学/行为科学博士课程中代表性不足的学生的成功。IMSD项目还在培养社会经济弱势和代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生进入生物医学博士职业的强大管道的成功中发挥了关键作用。LLU- nih IMSD项目的长期目标是通过增加未被充分代表的学生完成生物医学/行为科学博士学位的人数来增加LLU的多样性。这个竞争性应用程序的目标是在未来五年内将过去五年LLU URM生物医学/行为科学博士学位的平均毕业率提高50%。这一目标将通过实现两个具体的可衡量目标来实现。SMO 1将实施一项针对IMSD学员需求定制的课外研究教育计划，战略性地解决他们在生物医学科学领域的职业目标。SMO 2旨在为所有IMSD学员提供持续的学术支持环境，以确保他们及时完成博士课程，并成功过渡到博士后培训或其他相关职业发展。应用程序的研究教育计划的一个基石是在科学写作、团队教学、研究计划开发和拨款写作技巧、适当的指导和指导、有效的简历/简历开发、面试掌握、时间管理、网络开发和转化研究原则方面实施交互式职业发展模块化研讨会（IDC-MW）。IDC-MW旨在解决阻碍学生成为生物医学科学家的真正潜力的障碍。将个人发展计划（IDP）作为培训计划的一部分，将加强学员的职业目标和发展。我们期望本申请中提出的计划的实施将促进参与学生的职业发展，并使我们的博士项目在培养多样化的科学人才方面更加灵活。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Training a diverse and competent scientific workforce is indispensable to fostering innovation and producing valuable biomedical research. Achieving this goal is also critical to finding the cure for diseases affecting human kind and eliminating health disparities that have become a burden to our society at large. For over a decade Loma Linda University (LLU) has partnered with the National Institute for General Medical Sciences to address this important national challenge. The LLU-NIH Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity Program (LLU-NIH IMSD program) has been successful in increasing institutional diversity. Further, implementation of an outcome-based educational plan has enhanced the success of students underrepresented in our biomedical/behavioral sciences doctoral programs. The IMSD program also has played a key role in the success of a robust pipeline that is nurturing socioeconomically disadvantaged and underrepresented minority (URM) students into biomedical doctoral careers. The long-term goal of the LLU-NIH IMSD program is to increase diversity at LLU by increasing the number of underrepresented students that complete a doctoral degree in the biomedical/behavioral sciences. The goal of this competitive application is to increase the average LLU URM biomedical/behavioral sciences doctoral degree graduation rate for the last five years by 50% within the next five years. This goal will be achieved by fulfilling two specific measurable objectives (SMOs). SMO 1 is to implement a co-curricular research education plan customized for IMSD trainees' needs that strategically address their career goals in the biomedical sciences. SMO 2 is to provide a continuous scholarly supportive environment for all IMSD trainees to ensure timely completion of their PhD programs and successful transition to postdoctoral training or other relevant career advancement. A cornerstone of the application's research education program plan is the implementation of Interactive Career Development Modular Workshops (IDC-MW) in scientific writing, team-based teaching, research plan development and grant writing skills, proper mentoring and coaching, effective curriculum vitae/resume development, interview mastery, time management, networking development, and principles of translational research. The IDC-MW is intended to address hurdles that hinder student's real potential to succeed as biomedical scientists. The incorporation of an Individual Development Plan (IDP) as part of the training program will strengthen the trainee's career goals and development. We anticipate that the implementation of the plan proposed in this application will foster career development of participant students and make our doctoral program more agile in training a diverse scientific workforce.