NIH-LLU Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity

描述(申请人提供)：国家卫生研究院的使命是通过生物医学研究、科学培训和教育来改善所有美国人的健康状况。为了实现这一目标，我们需要成功地培养一支多样化的科学家队伍，随时准备取得突破，从而开发出治疗当前致命疾病的新疗法，减少并最终消除目前的健康差距。洛玛琳达大学最大限度地扩大学生多样性计划(IMSD)的使命是增加该机构博士或医学博士学位毕业生队伍的多样性。为了实现这一目标，这项竞争性续签申请提出了一项全面的计划，应导致从洛马琳达大学毕业并获得博士学位的未被充分代表的少数族裔学生(URM)的数量增加。该计划特别侧重于确定和消除可能阻碍研究生院URMS成功的障碍。该申请的目标是将LLU生物医学博士学位毕业生的URMS数量增加一倍。该应用程序将通过满足六个具体的可衡量目标来实现这一目标：(1)每年招募和支持5个参与LLU-NIH IMSD计划的有前途的新URM。(2)实现博士生100%毕业率。(3)为所有LLU IMSD学生提供支持性的学业和经济环境。(4)透过合办课程活动，例如科学写作及沟通单元、研究计划书发展及教学技巧等，提升所有土地利用国际管理学院学生的学术及研究能力。(5)让所有LLU IMSD学生每年至少参加一次重要的国家和地区/地方科学会议，并在博士期间发表至少两篇第一作者手稿。(6)通过参加一个关于健康差距的一个单元的专题课程，增加在健康差距领域精通的毕业生医疗保健服务人员的数量。LLU-NIH IMSD项目成功地实现了其目标和目的，这得益于其强大的多样性项目内部渠道的发展，以及与全国各地合作机构的多样性项目的持续合作伙伴关系，这些机构与我们分享了培养多元化生物医学科学家队伍的愿景。 公共卫生相关性：要在美国找到当前致命疾病的治疗方法，需要培养一支训练有素、装备精良的生物医学科学家队伍，从事尖端的基础和转化科学研究。本申请包含一项全面的教育发展计划，解决了众所周知的障碍，这些障碍干扰了全国各地大学增加生物医学科学专业代表性不足学生的博士毕业生人数的愿望。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of the National Institutes of Health is to improve the health status of all Americans through biomedical research and scientific training and education. To reach this goal we need to succeed in developing a diverse group of scientists ready to make breakthroughs that result in the development of novel therapies to treat current killer diseases and the reduction and ultimate elimination of current health disparities. The mission of the Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity Program (IMSD) at Loma Linda University is to increase diversity in the cadre of students that graduate with PhD or MD-PhD degrees at this institution. To accomplish this goal, this competitive renewal application proposes a comprehensive plan that should lead to an increase in the number of underrepresented minority students (URMS) that graduate with a PhD degree from Loma Linda University. The program especially focuses in identifying and removing hurdles that can inhibit success of URMS in graduate school. The goal of the application is to double the number of URMS that graduate with a PhD degree in the biomedical sciences at LLU. The application will accomplish this goal by meeting six specific measurable objectives: (1) To recruit and support 5 new promising URMS per year that participate in the LLU- NIH IMSD program. (2) To achieve a 100% graduation rate of PhD students participating in the program. (3) To provide a supportive academic and financial environment to all LLU IMSD students. (4) To enhance the academic and research proficiency of all LLU IMSD students through participation in co-curricular activities such as modules on scientific writing and communication, research proposal development, and teaching skills. (5) To have all LLU IMSD students attend at least one major national and two regional/local scientific meetings per year, and publish a minimum of two first author manuscripts during the PhD. (6) To increase the number of graduate URMS who are proficient in the field of health disparities through participation in a 1-unit topic course on health disparities. The LLU-NIH IMSD program has been successful in reaching its goals and objectives because of the development of a robust internal pipeline of diversity programs, and a continued partnership with diversity programs from collaborating institutions around the country that share with us the vision of training a diverse workforce of biomedical scientists. Public health relevance: Finding the cure of current killer diseases in the USA requires developing a diverse cadre of biomedical scientists that are well trained and equipped to pursue cutting-edge basic and translational science research. The present application contains a comprehensive educational developmental plan that addresses well known hurdles that interfere with the aspirations of universities across the country in increasing the number of PhD graduates from students underrepresented in biomedical sciences.