Strategies for diversifying the pool of graduate students in biomedical sciences
| Autor: | Gloria D. Coronado, Jennifer Anderson, Angela K. Ulrich, Michèle Shuster, Helena Loest |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Male Biomedical Research media_common.quotation_subject New Mexico Pharmacology toxicology education Internship Nonmedical Bachelor Article Internship Neoplasms Medicine Humans Students Minority Groups media_common Medical education Career Choice business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Oncology Graduate students Socioeconomic Factors Preparedness General partnership Female business Career choice Biomedical sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education. 27(3) |
| ISSN: | 1543-0154 |
| Popis: | As part of our National Cancer Institute-sponsored partnership between New Mexico State University and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, we implemented the cancer research internship for undergraduate students to expand the pipeline of underrepresented students who can conduct cancer-related research. A total of 21 students participated in the program from 2008 to 2011. Students were generally of senior standing (47 %), female (90 %), and Hispanic (85 %). We present a logic model to describe the short-, medium-, and long-term outputs of the program. Comparisons of pre- and post-internship surveys showed significant improvements in short-term outputs including interest (p |
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