The Native American Short-Term Research Education Program in Children's Health Supplemental Proposal for additional Exceptional Mentoring Experiences

NARI-NHLBI DOSI实施摘要 美国印第安人/阿拉斯加原住民（AI/AN）面临的健康危机超过了所有 其他代表性不足，服务不足的社区在美国。AI/AN社区的健康差距 存在于整个生命周期中。消除健康差距，需要确定，招聘， 教育和培训美国最有才华的科学家。 生物医学劳动力，我们建立了一个美洲原住民研究实习（NARI）计划， 2010.我们的整体和全面的NARI计划是为了支持AI/AN学生而开发的，他们 在高等教育和医疗保健方面代表性不足，服务不足。代表不足 少数民族更有可能与服务不足的人口和种族之间的一致性， 患者和临床医生与改善的健康结果相关。我们的最终目标是增加 AI/AN在科学和医学方面的代表性和领导力。迄今为止，171名南瑞毕业生 代表62个部落国家，74所学院/大学和29个家乡州参加了 该计划与100%的参与者要么完成大学学位或在完成的过程中 一个学位，没有人从大学辍学。获得学士学位后，78 (60继续在健康/科学领域接受教育：43名NARI参与者 接受了研究生课程; 33名NARI被接受进入医学院，2名被接受 一个MD/PhD项目。13人是现任住院医师，其中几人已返回担任领导人 在部落社区;医生、公共卫生工作者、药剂师等。凭借这些杰出的 结果，我们开始解决我们的首要目标，增加人工智能/人工智能的代表性，作为领导者， 生物医学科学在区域和国家。虽然NARI计划取得了成功， 许多NARI-NHLBI校友通过社交媒体，会议和 友谊，我们已经确定了几个错过的机会，南瑞导师，我们希望 支持这项补充赠款：1）支持整个NARI队列辅导活动期间， 夏季2）支持南瑞院外的“近同行”和“同行对同行”辅导活动 暑期课程3）MCAT准备财政支持，和4）支持NARI-NHLBI校友感兴趣的 在部落社区开展跟踪和志愿活动。利用NARI计划的基础， 我们希望支持这些独特的机会，并继续发展有意义的国家NARI 连接和区域连接。

NARI-NHLBI DOSI SUPPLEMENTAL ABSTRACT The American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations are facing a health crisis that exceeds every other underrepresented, underserved community in the US. Health disparities in AI/AN communities exist throughout the lifespan. Eliminating health disparities, requires the identification, recruitment, education, and training of the most talented scientists in the U.S. To increase AI/AN representation in the biomedical workforce, we established a Native American Research Internship (NARI) program in 2010. Our holistic and comprehensive NARI program was developed to support AI/AN students, who are underrepresented and underserved in both higher education and healthcare. Underrepresented minorities are more likely to work with underserved populations and racial concordance between a patient and clinician is associated with improved health outcomes. Our ultimate goal is to increase AI/AN representation and leadership in science and medicine. To date, 171 NARI graduates representing 62 tribal nations, 74 colleges/universities, and 29 home states have participated in the program with 100% of participants either completing a college degree or in the process of completing a degree, and no one has dropped out of college. Upon obtaining their undergraduate degree, 78 (60%) have continued their education in the health/science fields: 43 NARI participants were accepted into a graduate program; 33 NARI were accepted into medical school and 2 were accepted to a MD/PhD program. Thirteen are current medical residents and several have returned as leaders in tribal communities; physicians, public health workers, pharmacists, etc. With these outstanding outcomes, we begin to address our overarching goal of increasing AI/AN representation as leaders in biomedical science regionally and nationally. Although the NARI program has been successful and many NARI-NHLBI alumni have remained connected through social media, conferences and friendship, we have identified several missed opportunities of NARI mentorship which we hope to support with this supplemental grant: 1) Support mentoring activities across NARI cohorts during the summer 2) Support NARI “near peer” and “peer to peer” mentoring activities outside of the NARI summer program 3) MCAT prep financial support, and 4) Support NARI-NHLBI alumni interested in shadowing and volunteer activities in tribal communities. Using the foundation of the NARI program, we hope to support these unique opportunities and continue to grow meaningful national NARI connections and regional connections.