Bridges to the Doctorate Program at Cal State LA

少数群体成员在国家生物医学研究企业中的参与不足代表着 大量人才库的流失尚未应用于解决国家许多生物医学 有问题。作为这种情况的部分解决方案，洛杉矶盆地的三家机构提出了一项 加州州立大学洛杉矶分校博士学位合作桥梁(B2D@CSLA)计划，以增加 有才华的少数民族学生攻读生物医学博士学位。这将通过增加 将少数民族学生从少数民族院校强大的MS项目转移到专业博士项目 研究型大学。这些机构是加州州立大学洛杉矶分校(加州州立大学洛杉矶分校)的少数民族 授予理科硕士学位作为其最高科学学位的机构，以及两个授予博士学位的主要研究 机构：加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)和加州大学欧文分校。我们 建议每年培训25名在加州州立大学攻读硕士学位的少数族裔学生 旨在提高他们的学术和研究成就的计划；将他们融入更广泛的领域 南加州生物医学研究社区；让他们接触到广泛的生物医学科学和 科学家；提高他们到博士项目的转化率；并为他们最终的 在生物医学科学领域取得成功的研究事业。B2D@CSLA寻求进一步建立 加州州立大学洛杉矶分校在许多重要方面模仿博士项目的环境：我们提供强大的、 以实验室为基础的硕士研究环境，研究员的研究兴趣决定了他们在实验室的位置。 我们为研究员设计了一个学术计划，以克服他们在本科成绩上的不足。我们 雇佣每月特定学科的期刊俱乐部，让研究员接受对原文的批判性分析培训 研究文献。我们在整个学年举办了三个强有力的每周科学研讨会系列， 为研究员和教职员工提供与授予博士学位的机构的学术科学家互动的机会。 我们为我们的研究员提供密切的指导，以指导他们完成学术过程-指导 由少数群体成员充分代表的教职员工提供。这些最佳实践，已启动 并由NIH资助的学生培训计划制度化，使加州州立大学洛杉矶成为一个备受尊敬的 吸引大洛杉矶地区少数族裔理科毕业生获得硕士学位并继续深造 拿到博士学位。该提案旨在将加州州立大学洛杉矶分校的这些最佳实践从两个部门扩展到 到六个系，从一个学院到三个学院，从6个学生到25个学生。

The under-participation of minority group members in the nation's biomedical research enterprise represents the loss of a large talent pool that has not been applied towards the solution of the Nation's many biomedical problems. As a partial solution to this situation, three institutions in the Los Angeles basin propose a collaborative Bridge to the Doctorate at Cal State LA (B2D@CSLA) program to increase the number of talented minority students in Ph.D. programs in the biomedical sciences. This will be done by increasing the transfer of minority students from strong MS programs at a minority institution into PhD programs at major research universities. These institutions are California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA), a minority institution which awards the MS as its highest science degree, and two PhD-granting major research institutions: the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of California at Irvine. We propose to train each year a group of 25 minority students pursuing the MS degree at Cal State LA in a program designed to enhance their academic and research achievement; integrate them into the broader Southern California biomedical research community; expose them to a broad range of biomedical sciences and scientists; enhance their transfer rate to PhD programs; and establish the foundation for their eventual successful research careers in the biomedical sciences. B2D@CSLA seeks to further an established environment at Cal State LA that mimics a doctoral program in many important respects: We provide a strong, lab-based M.S. research environment where the research interests of the Fellows drive their placement in labs. We design an academic plan for the Fellows that overcomes deficiencies in their undergraduate records. We employ monthly discipline-specific journal clubs for Fellows to be trained in critical analysis of the original research literature. We host three strong, weekly science seminar series throughout the academic year that provide opportunities for Fellows and faculty to interact with academic scientists from PhD-granting institutions. And we provide close mentoring to our Fellows to guide them through the academic process—mentoring provided by a faculty that is itself well represented by minority group members. These best practices, initiated and institutionalized by NIH-funded student training programs, have made Cal State LA a well-respected magnet for minority science graduates in the Greater Los Angeles area to earn their MS degrees and proceed to the PhD degree. This proposal seeks to expand these best practices at Cal State LA from two departments to six departments, from one College to three Colleges, and from 6 students to 25 students.