Cultivating Health & Aging Researchers by Integrating Science, Medicine & Aging

项目总结/摘要 美国的老年人口是最多的，种族和民族最多样化。 这些趋势预计将继续或加速。以满足更大的 不同的老年人的医疗保健需求，重要的是，医疗保健劳动力代表 这个群体的多样性。多元化的医疗保健工作队伍对于扩大医疗保健服务的可及性非常重要， 为弱势群体提供服务，并丰富领导人和决策者的人才库， 熟悉我们老龄化人口的各种医疗保健需求。临床上尤其如此。 研究，因为研究人员往往依靠个人经验，因为他们制定和寻求回答研究 问题.因此，在临床研究中，少数民族领导人的代表性不足， 劳动力可以帮助确保研究重点适当满足老年少数群体的需求。 尽管认识到需要一个多样化的临床研究队伍，学生从代表性不足， 在为老年人进行临床研究培训方面，这些群体面临着重大障碍。学生 代表性不足的群体面临着财政、信息和文化方面的挑战，限制了他们的兴趣， 整体参与医学。此外，来自代表性不足群体的学生可能不太可能 继续接受老年人临床研究的培训，如果他们认为这些研究与他们的健康无关， 生活 芝加哥大学（UC）是培养未来临床研究人员的领导者， 背景，通过几个NIA研究培训计划，专门关注老龄化问题， 不同培训水平的学生。这些培训方案使学生接触到正规的教学课程， 老龄化和临床研究，进行老龄化临床研究的多层次导师团队， 在临床研究和老龄化方面的职业经验。我们的NIGMS资助的管道计划， 芝加哥公立高中学生成功地提高了追求职业的兴趣和意图 临床研究我们的NIA计划为医学生成功地提高了对老龄化研究的兴趣 这些受训者的职业和研究生产力（即，出版物和奖项）。 在我们为不同的高中和医学生提供的课程取得成功的基础上，我们将利用我们的 体验培训学习者在老龄化研究，以建立培养健康与老龄化研究人员， 整合科学，医学和老龄化（CHARISMA）计划，一个结构化的纵向多层次 为来自代表性不足背景的本科生提供与老龄化有关的研究培训计划。 CHARISMA的目标是：1）为来自代表性不足的背景的本科生做好准备， 医学，科学，工程，技术和数学（MSTEM）职业与衰老相关的临床 研究，以及2）提高和维持学习者的满意度，与年龄相关的研究知识，态度 走向与衰老相关的临床研究事业，以及与追求与衰老相关的 在代表性不足的本科生中从事MSTEM领域的研究工作。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The population of older adults in the United States is the largest and most racially and ethnically diverse the nation has ever known, and these trends are expected to continue or accelerate. To meet the increased healthcare needs of a diverse older adult population, it is important that the healthcare workforce represent the diversity of this population. A diverse healthcare workforce is important to expand healthcare access for underserved populations and to enrich the pool of leaders and policymakers with unique insights into and familiarity with the diverse healthcare needs of our aging population. This is especially true for clinical research, since researchers often rely on personal experience as they formulate and seek to answer research questions. Thus, broader representation of underrepresented minority leaders in the clinical research workforce can help ensure that research priorities appropriately address the needs of older minority groups. Despite the recognized need for a diverse clinical research workforce, students from underrepresented groups face significant barriers to pursuing training in clinical research for older adults. Students from underrepresented groups encounter financial, informational and cultural challenges that limit their interest and participation in medicine overall. Moreover, students from underrepresented groups may be less likely to pursue training in clinical research for older adults if they do not perceive such research as relevant to their lives. The University of Chicago (UC) is a leader in training future clinical researchers from underrepresented backgrounds, with a specific focus on aging through several NIA research training programs designed for students at different training levels. These training programs expose students to formal didactic curricula in aging and clinical research, multi-tiered mentorship teams that conduct clinical research in aging, and realistic career experiences in clinical research and aging. Our NIGMS-funded pipeline program for underrepresented Chicago public high school students has successfully increased the interest and intent in pursuing a career clinical research. Our NIA programs for medical students have successfully improved interest in aging research careers and research productivity of those trainees (i.e., publications and awards). Building on the success of our programs for diverse high school and medical students, we will leverage our experience training learners in aging research to build the Cultivating Health & Aging Researchers by Integrating Science, Medicine & Aging (CHARISMA) program, a structured longitudinal multi-tiered mentored aging-related research training program for undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds. The objectives of CHARISMA are 1) to prepare undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds for medicine, science, engineering, technology and mathematics (MSTEM) careers in aging-related clinical research, and 2) to increase and sustain learner satisfaction, aging-related research knowledge, attitudes toward aging-related clinical research careers, and behaviors associated with pursuing an aging-related research career in an MSTEM field among underrepresented undergraduates.