MBRS-IMSD Program at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Cen

描述（由申请人提供）：2004年，科罗拉多大学健康科学中心与丹佛市中心的科罗拉多大学合并，成为丹佛健康科学中心的科罗拉多大学（UCDHSC）。由于少数民族和少数种族人口众多的城市高中必须应对影响基本成绩和学术水平的各种文化和社会问题，具有潜在天赋和能力的学生往往得不到来自更富裕的郊区学区的学生所能获得的智力支持。我们将通过为有前途的学生提供一个旨在加强他们的基本技能，提高他们的学术资格，并激发他们对科学的热情的计划进行干预。我们的目标是（1）提供一个暑期科学学院，旨在改善基本数学，科学或语言技能的任何缺陷;（2）使用补充指令，以提高保留率，并使至少80%的参与者能够在看门人课程中取得成功;（3）通过分子生物学技术的实践培训和系统生物学的高级培训，为学生的研究生涯做好准备（蛋白质组学，基因组学和生物信息学）;（4）通过提供学习技能，时间管理，图书馆研究技能，科学/技术写作，批判性文献综述，道德和胜任沟通的研讨会，为学生的研究生涯做好准备;（5）为一组选定的参与者提供学生研究员的就业机会，解决特别侧重于疾病的研究问题，包括艾滋病、糖尿病、心脏病和其他严重影响少数民族人口的疾病（每年9个月，每周15小时，夏季每周40小时）;（6）通过提供GRE准备课程和指导撰写研究生院论文，为学生进入研究生院做准备，导航应用程序和发展面试技巧，使100%的参与学生申请和65%被录取到研究生院课程;以及（7）为选定的一组学生提供必要的支持，以成功完成研究生院的必修课程并申请博士前奖学金; 90%的学生将及时完成论文项目。 来自UCDHSC的教职员工以及研究生，研究员和高年级学生将作为同伴导师，补充教学促进者或讲师参加拟议的课程/研讨会/学院。校长、教务长、院长和副校长已承诺提供资金支持该计划，并将在必要时为高素质候选人提供超出申请预算的额外名额。评估，过程和成果评价将使用副院长开发的工具进行课程和评价。我们将采用一个新实施的跟踪系统来衡量IMSD计划对提高学生参与生物医学研究的兴趣及其成功进入博士学位的影响。跟踪程序。由于少数民族和少数种族人口众多的城市高中必须应对影响基本成绩和学术水平的各种文化和社会问题，具有潜在天赋和能力的学生往往得不到来自更富裕的郊区学区的学生所能获得的智力支持。我们建议通过为有前途的学生提供一个旨在加强他们的基本技能，提高他们的学术资格，并激发他们对科学的热情的计划来进行干预。增加来自代表性不足社区的成功生物医学研究人员的数量将为我们的队伍带来急需的多样性，并可能鼓励对这些人群所经历的健康差异产生更大的研究兴趣。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In 2004 the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center consolidated its campus with the University of Colorado at Denver downtown campus to become the University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC). Because urban high schools with sizable populations of ethnic and racial minorities have to contend with a myriad of cultural and societal issues affecting basic achievement and academic proficiency, students with underlying talent and capability are too often not afforded the intellectual support available to students from more affluent suburban school districts. We will intervene by providing promising students with a program designed to strengthen their fundamental skills, enhance their academic credentials, and elicit their passion for science. Our objectives are (1) to provide a Summer Science Academy designed to improve any deficiencies in basic math, science, or language skills; (2) to use supplemental instruction to improve retention and enable at least 80% of participants to succeed in gatekeeper courses; (3) to prepare students for research careers via hands-on training in molecular biology techniques and advanced training in systems biology (proteomics, genomics and bioinformatics); (4) to prepare students for a research career by providing workshops in study skills, time management, library research skills, scientific/technical writing, critical literature review, ethics, and competent communication; (5) to provide a selected group of participants with employment as student researchers, addressing research problems particularly focused on diseases, including HIV, diabetes, heart disease, and others, that affect minority populations disproportionately (15 hours per week for 9 academic months per year, 40 hours per week during the summer); (6) to prepare students for graduate school by offering a GRE preparation course and guidance on writing graduate school essays, navigating the application process and developing interview skills so that 100% of participating students apply to and 65% are accepted into a graduate school program; and (7) to provide a selected group of students with the support necessary to succeed in required courses in graduate school and apply for a predoctoral fellowship; 90% will complete their dissertation project in a timely fashion. Faculty members from UCDHSC as well as graduate students, fellows and upperclassmen will participate as peer tutors, supplemental instruction facilitators or instructors in the proposed courses/ workshops/ academies. The Chancellor, Provost, Deans and Vice Chancellors have committed funds to support the program and will fund additional slots for highly qualified candidates beyond what has been budgeted in the application, if necessary. Assessment, process and outcome evaluations will be conducted using tools developed by the Associate Dean for Curriculum and Evaluation. We will employ a newly implemented tracking system to measure the impact of the IMSD program on elevating student participant interest in biomedical research and their success in gaining entry into Ph.D.-track programs. Because urban high schools with sizable populations of ethnic and racial minorities have to contend with a myriad of cultural and societal issues affecting basic achievement and academic proficiency, students with underlying talent and capability are too often not afforded the intellectual support available to students from more affluent suburban school districts. We propose to intervene by providing promising students with a program designed to strengthen their fundamental skills, enhance their academic credentials, and elicit their passion for science. Boosting the number of successful biomedical researchers from underrepresented communities will bring much needed diversity to our ranks and potentially encourage greater research interest into the health disparities experienced by these populations.