The Summer Pharmacy Experiences in Academic Research (SPEAR) program at Hampton University School of Pharmacy

 描述(由申请者提供)：包括国立卫生研究院在内的几个联邦和州机构已经认识到，迫切需要扩大代表人数不足的少数群体的个人在所有与健康有关的研究领域的参与。为此，这些组织积极争取教育机构的参与，为少数民族学生参与和参与生物医学研究提供途径。来自代表性不足的少数族裔的研究人员的增加，不仅有助于形成强大和多样化的劳动力队伍，还将有助于追踪心血管疾病、中风、糖尿病和肺部疾病等重要的慢性病领域，这些疾病对少数族裔人口造成了不成比例的困扰。这项提议的目的是在汉普顿大学药学院建立“学术研究中的夏季药学经验”方案，或称SPAR。该计划将为来自药学院的少数民族学生提供为期10周的强化动手研究培训课程。这项计划将挑选成功完成药学院第一年学业的少数族裔学生，并将他们安排在已确定的药学系指导教师的指导下进行研究实验室。这些受训者将在生物医学研究的几个领域接受指导，鼓励他们在导师的帮助下执行研究想法，并编写一篇简短的研究论文和一份摘要，在两个夏天的时间里在全国会议上提交。该项目的设计是，第一年将在汉普顿大学的实验室完成，而第二个夏天返回的学生将被送到东弗吉尼亚医学院(EVMS)和西弗吉尼亚大学(WVU)的实验室进行更密集的研究体验。该培训计划的总体目标是培养这些少数民族学生在药学学校毕业后继续从事与健康相关的研究的愿望。目的I旨在确定和选择最合适的少数族裔学生候选人参加暑期研究计划。目前，我们将在第一年培训六名学生，并在接下来的几年里培训NICE，他们都将被安排在HU、EVMS或西弗吉尼亚大学的研究人员的指导下。在AIM II中，被选中的受训者将在该项目中参与多年，他们将在夏季为期10周的教师指导下生成一份研究提案，并将生成与该项目相关的初步实验数据。他们还将被指导进行负责任的研究，并参加期刊俱乐部的研讨会和案例陈述。在本培训期间结束时，学生将被要求生成一份简短的科学报告。将鼓励学生 参加他们所在研究领域的地方或国家会议，在那里他们将被要求提交摘要，这些摘要可能使他们有资格发布或口头陈述。最后，该计划将在AIM III中进行形成性和终结性评估，以评估该计划的成功。将对毕业实习生进行长期跟踪，以评估他们通过该计划获得的培训是否指导他们在生物医学研究方面追求职业生涯。这一计划是鼓励少数族裔药学学生参与学术研究的重要一步，将有助于在与健康相关的研究职业中促进多样化的劳动力队伍，并有助于完成NHLBI和NIH在扩大少数族裔卫生从业者在研究领域的代表性方面的使命。(摘要结束)

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Several federal and state institutions including the NIH have recognized the urgent need to expand the participation of individuals from underrepresented minorities in all areas of health-related research. To this end, these organizations have actively solicited the involvement of educational institutions in providing pathways for students from minority population to be engaged and to participate in biomedical research. An increase in researchers from underrepresented minorities will not only contribute towards a strong and diverse work force, it will also help in tacking important chronic diseases areas such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and pulmonary disorders that disproportionately afflict the minority population. This proposal aims to establish the `Summer Pharmacy Experiences in Academic Research' program, or SPEAR, at the Hampton University School of Pharmacy. This program will offer a 10-week intensive hands-on research-training course to minority students from the School of Pharmacy. This program will select minority students that have successfully completed their first year of pharmacy school, and place them in research laboratories under the guidance of mentoring faculty in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences that have been identified. These trainees will be instructed in several area of biomedical research, encouraged to execute research ideas with the help of their mentor, and put together a short research paper and an abstract to be presented at national conferences over the period of two summers. The program is designed such that the first year will be completed at Hampton University laboratories, whereas students that return for a second summer will be sent to laboratories at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) and West Virginia University (WVU) for a more intensive research experience. The overall goal of this training program is to foster in these minority students the desire to pursue a future in health-related research following graduation from pharmacy school. Aim I is designed to identify and select the most appropriate minority student candidates to participate in the summer research program. At present we will be training six students in the first year, and nice in subsequent years, all of whom will be placed under the mentorship of research faculty either at HU, EVMS or WVU. In Aim II, the selected trainees will be engaged over multiple years within the program wherein they will generate a research proposal under the supervision of their faculty mentors over a 10-week period in the summer, and will generate preliminary experimental data in relation to the project. They will also be instructed in the responsible conduct of research, and participate in journal club seminars and case presentations. At the end of this training period, the students will be required to generate a short scientific report. Students will be encouraged to participate in a local or national conference in their field of research, where they will be asked o submit abstracts that may make them eligible for poster or oral presentation. Finally, the program will be put through formative and summative assessments in Aim III in order to evaluate the success of the program. Graduating trainees will be tracked long-term to evaluate whether the training that they obtained through this program directed them pursue a career in biomedical research. This program is an essential step towards encouraging participation of minority pharmacy students in academic research, will help in contributing towards a diverse workforce in health-related research careers, and aid in fulfilling the mission of the NHLBI and NIH in expanding the representation of minority health practitioners in the research arena. (End of Abstract)