Career Development and Increasing Diversity in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

描述（由申请人提供）：当前提案旨在支持2014年5月美国儿科血液学/肿瘤学学会（ASPHO）年会上以多样性为重点的研讨会。这将是协会专业发展委员会多样性小组委员会组织的一系列年度讲习班的继续。这些面向多样性的研讨会在过去4年中有3年获得了NIH R13赠款支持（NCI/NHLBI）。我们假设，这些研讨会的纵向效应有助于提高人们对增加多样性和促进我们领域代表性不足的个人进步的多方面和复杂目标的认识。我们建议利用这些成就，继续这个系列研讨会，同时增加一个导师组成部分，旨在培养具有不同背景的初级学员对儿科血液学/肿瘤学的浓厚兴趣。2010年对协会成员进行的一项人口调查显示，协会成员中存在重大的族裔差异，这与少数族裔在整个医学领域代表性不足的已知趋势一致。有趣的是，在ASPHO的领导职位上似乎严重缺乏非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔和其他族裔的代表。这部分反映了ASPHO的一般成员资格，并且可能代表了儿科血液学/肿瘤学的更大领域。虽然取得了一些进展，但妇女在ASPHO领导职位上的代表性仍然不足。我们假设，随着时间的推移，这些差异可以通过旨在提高现有ASPHO成员的文化意识的教育计划和对代表性不足的医学生和未承诺的居民的直接指导（即，不匹配亚专业奖学金），以增加他们选择进入儿科血液学/肿瘤学并渴望担任领导角色的可能性。我们2014年研讨会的主题将是“增加儿科血液学/肿瘤学劳动力多样性的策略”。 该研讨会将向所有ASPHO会议与会者开放，并将包括：（一）多样性举措和ASPHO领导和多样性特别兴趣小组的成就的简要概述，（二）从教师多样性发展计划的全国知名领导人的主旨演讲，及（iii）加强网络联系，以识别多元化-相关的问题，并收集关于ASPHO多样性特别兴趣小组来年拟议活动的建议。今年研讨会的一个关键补充是扩大学员旅行奖励，不仅包括赞助具有不同背景的奖学金学员，还包括赞助代表性不足的初级学员（医科学生和住院医生），他们将与教师导游配对。“这些指南将确保赞助的学员能够优化他们的会议体验，并在儿科血液学/肿瘤学领域提供联系点和指导，因为他们开始在会议结束后制定职业发展计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The current proposal aims to support a diversity-focused workshop at the annual meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (ASPHO) in May 2014. This will be a continuation of a series of annual workshops organized by the Diversity Subcommittee of the ASPHO Professional Development Committee. These diversity-oriented workshops have received NIH R13 grant support (NCI/NHLBI) for 3 of the past 4 years. We hypothesize that the longitudinal effects of these workshops serve to increase awareness of the multifaceted and complex goals of increasing diversity and facilitating advancement of under- represented individuals in our field. We propose to capitalize on these achievements by continuing this workshop series while adding a mentorship component designed to foster a strong interest in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology among junior trainees with diverse backgrounds. A demographic survey among ASPHO members in 2010 revealed significant ethnic disparities in ASPHO membership, consistent with known trends of under-representation of ethnic minorities in medicine as a whole. Anecdotally, there appears to be a significant lack of African American, Hispanic, and other ethnic representation in ASPHO leadership positions. This is partially reflective of the general ASPHO membership, and it is likely representative of the larger field of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. Although gains have been made, women also remain under-represented in leadership positions within ASPHO. We hypothesize that these disparities can be reduced over time through a combination of educational programs aimed at increasing cultural awareness among existing ASPHO members and direct mentoring of under-represented medical students and uncommitted residents (i.e., not matched to a subspecialty fellowship) in order to increase the likelihood that they choose to enter Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and aspire to leadership roles. The theme of our 2014 workshop will be "Strategies for Increasing Workforce Diversity in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology". This workshop will be open to all ASPHO conference attendees and will include: (i) a brief synopsis of diversity initiatives and accomplishments of ASPHO leadership and the Diversity Special Interest Group, (ii) a keynote address from a nationally prominent leader in faculty diversity development programs, and (iii) an intensive networking exercise to identify diversity- related concerns and collect recommendations regarding the proposed activities of the ASPHO Diversity Special Interest Group for the upcoming year. A key addition to this year's workshop will be the expansion of trainee travel awards to include sponsorship of not only fellowship trainees with diverse backgrounds, but also under-represented junior trainees (medical students and residents) who will be paired with faculty "guides." These guides will ensure that the sponsored trainees are able to optimize their conference experience and provide a point-of-contact and mentorship within the field of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology as they begin to make career development plans well after the conference concludes.