University of New Mexico PREP Program

描述（由申请人提供）：新墨西哥大学学士学位后研究和教育计划（UNM PREP）是一个生物医学研究培训计划，重点关注计划进入博士课程的少数民族和社会经济代表性不足的个人。通过一系列明确的目标，我们将：为我们的项目招募高质量的未被充分代表的学者；制定和实施个性化培训计划，提供实验室研究经验和学术培训，以提高学者的技能；提供额外的培训模块，以发展学者的专业技能；为成功申请博士课程的学者提供支持和培训；研究影响研究生留校的因素；并利用这些数据改善新墨西哥大学的研究生培训。我们预计，这一培训的结果将是增加科学界代表性不足的个人的数量，并增加对减少健康差距的研究重点和认识。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of New Mexico Postbaccalaureate Research and Education Program (UNM PREP) is a biomedical research training program focused upon Minorities and socio-economically under-represented individuals who plan to enter a PhD program. Through a series of defined objectives, we shall: recruit high-quality under-represented Scholars to our program; develop and realize individualized training plans to provide laboratory research experience and academic training to improve the skill set of the Scholar; provide additional training modules to develop the professional skills of the Scholar; provide support and training in the successful application of the Scholars to PhD programs; investigate the parameters impacting graduate school retention; and utilize these data to improve graduate training at UNM. We anticipate that the results of this training will be to increase the numbers of under-represented individuals in the sciences, and to increase research focus and awareness upon reducing health disparities. The relevance of this project to human health is through the direct training of individuals in biomedical science fields, and their subsequent strong performance in PhD programs. Since our Scholars hail from populations associated with specific health disparities, we shall be training individuals who are highly motivated and skilled to carry out future research aimed at alleviating and curing these health disparities.