The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Initiative for Maximizing Student

描述(由申请人提供)：阿肯色州来自代表不足(UR)群体的大学毕业生人数较少，加上全国UR学生毕业于生物科学和公共卫生专业的人数较少，导致进入生物医学研究领域的学生人数较少。为了解决这一不足，阿肯色大学医学科学(UAMS)在2009年创建了UAMS最大限度促进学生发展计划(IMSD)计划，利用国家普通医学研究所(NIGMS)的资金，为攻读生物医学博士学位的UR学生提供2年的工资/学费、指导和其他学生发展活动。UAMS IMSD项目对UR博士项目的入学产生了重大影响。2008年，UAMS生物医学博士生的平均入学比例为6.1%，落后于当时全国所有生物科学专业的平均水平8.2%。目前，UAMS博士生项目的UR成员平均入学率为15.3%，比UR研究生10.7%的全国平均水平高出4.6个百分点。UAMS IMSD项目的总体目标是改进UAMS在招收和留住UR学生方面取得的成功，该项目在IMSD项目的前4年取得了成功。我们将通过实施我们的具体可衡量目标来实现这一目标，这些目标旨在到2019年将UR生物医学博士生入学人数增加到20%，并将UR生物医学博士学位毕业生数量提高到UAMS生物医学博士毕业生总数的20%。这些目标与NIH-MBRS的目标一致，即在研究密集型环境的机构增加生物医学博士项目的毕业人数，并缩小生物医学领域UR和非UR学生之间的博士完成差距。我们的第一个目标是到2018年将华盛顿大学生物医学博士项目的学生申请者人数增加50%。我们将通过增加我们的招聘活动和扩大我们衡量这些活动的结果并随后修订我们的战略的能力来实现这一点。目标2是留住并毕业IMSD项目90%的学生。我们将在过去留任成功的基础上，通过加强我们的博士生暑期过渡计划，扩大学生发展活动，加强留住活动，并推进我们的指导计划。最终目标是评估该计划，确定哪些因素有助于取得成功，哪些领域需要改进，并传播结果。项目战略和成果将通过时事通讯、演示文稿和出版物向UAMS校园和其他学校传播。这里提出的举措可以为UAMS所有UR学生的全球招聘、留住和毕业做出贡献，并为其他机构提供经验教训，最终将增加UR教师和研究人员在服务于阿肯色州和全国的生物医学科学劳动力中的数量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The low number of college graduates from underrepresented (UR) groups in Arkansas, together with the low national number of UR students who graduate in the biological sciences and public health, result in a small pool of students entering the field of biomedical research. To address this shortfall, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) created the UAMS Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) Program in 2009 to provide UR students pursuing biomedical doctoral degrees with 2 years of salary/tuition, mentoring, and other student development activities with funds from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). The UAMS IMSD Program has had a significant impact on UR enrollment in the doctoral programs. In 2008, the average UAMS enrollment of UR students in biomedical sciences doctoral programs was 6.1%, which trailed the then national average of UR student enrollment in all biological sciences of 8.2%. Currently, the average UR member enrollment rate in UAMS doctoral programs is 15.3%, 4.6 percentage points above the national average of 10.7% UR graduate students. The overall goal of the UAMS IMSD program is to improve upon the success UAMS has had in recruiting and retaining UR students during the first 4 years of the IMSD Program. We will do this by implementing our specific measureable objectives that aim to increase UR doctoral student enrollment in the biomedical sciences to 20% and boost the number of UR students graduating with biomedical science doctorate degrees to 20% of total UAMS biomedical doctoral graduates by 2019. These objectives align with the NIH-MBRS goals of increasing the number of UR students graduating from doctoral programs in the biomedical sciences at institutions with a research intensive environment and reducing the PhD completion gap between UR and non-UR students in the biomedical sciences. Our first Aim is to increase the number of UR student applicants to doctoral programs in the biomedical sciences by 50% by 2018. We will accomplish this by increasing our recruiting activities and enlarging our capacity to measure the results of these activities and subsequently revise our strategies. Aim 2 is to retain and graduate 90% of the students in the IMSD Program. We will build on our past retention success by enhancing our PhD Summer Transition Program for matriculated students, expanding student development activities, enhancing retention activities, and advancing our mentoring plan. The final Aim is to evaluate the program and determine which factors contributed to successes and which areas need improvement, and disseminate the results. Program strategies and outcomes will be disseminated to the UAMS campus and other schools through newsletters, presentations, and publications. The initiatives proposed here can contribute to the global recruitment, retention, and graduation of all UR students at UAMS and provide lessons learned to other institutions, which will ultimately increase the numbers of UR faculty and investigators in the biomedical science workforce serving Arkansas and the nation.