Training for minoritized individuals in gut-brain axis research

项目摘要 工作场所的多样性，包括实验室，会带来更多的创造力、创新和生产力。然而，在 2022年，AAMC报告称，按职级划分，助理教授的全职医学院教师中约57%是白人 正职教授级别(https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/faculty-)的白人比例约为74% Institutions/interactive-data/2022-us-medical-school-faculty).当这些数字是根据 在性别方面，数据更发人深省，在助理教授中，男性与女性的人数几乎相等(47433人 但只有不到一半的全职教职员工是女性(28,810人对11,403人) 而在女教职员工中，只有3217人不是白人。因此，尽管我们知道多样性可以促进创新， 医学院无法实现甚至维持最低限度的多样性。鉴于美国经济的下降 很明显，女性和历史上被边缘化的社区从助理到正教授级别的比例 医学院的环境不支持留住多样化的人才。下降的原因是 这是多方面的，因此需要采取长期和多方面的方法。然而，我假设 导师是一个在维护方面对其他人更有影响力的因素 多样性。因此，我这项提议的首要目标是改进我自己的指导方法 在一对一辅导和实验室管理中融入更多的文化意识，以 培养出职业满足感更高的成功学员。

Project Summary Diversity in the workplace, including the laboratory, leads to more creativity, innovation, and productivity. Yet, in 2022 the AAMC reported that full-time medical school faculty by rank was ~57% white at the assistant professor level and ~74% white at the full professor level (https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/faculty- institutions/interactive-data/2022-us-medical-school-faculty). When the numbers are calculated based on gender, the data are more sobering with almost equal numbers of men vs. women at assistant professor (47,433 vs. 44,370 faculty) but less than half of full-time faculty were women at the full professor level (28,810 vs. 11,403) and of the women faculty, only ~3217 were not white. Thus, although we know diversity improves innovation, medical schools are unable to achieve or even maintain a minimal amount of diversity. Given the drop in the proportion of women and historically marginalized communities from assistant to full professor ranks, it is clear that medical school environments are not supporting retention of diverse talent. The reasons for this drop are multi-factorial, and therefore will require a long-term and multi-faceted approach. However, I hypothesize that mentorship is one factor that is more heavily weighted against others in contributing to maintaining diversity. Therefore, my overarching goal of this proposal is to improve my own mentorship approach to incorporate greater cultural awareness in one-on-one mentoring and in laboratory management to generate successful trainees with greater career satisfaction.