Gotian Ruth, Raymore Jemella C, Rhooms Shauna-Kay, Liberman Laura, Andersen Olaf S
R. Gotian is administrative director, Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, New York, New York.J.C. Raymore was a volunteer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, at the time of writing, and is currently a fellow in hospice and palliative care, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.S.K. Rhooms is a volunteer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.L. Liberman is director, Office of Faculty Development, and attending radiologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.O.S. Andersen is director, Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, and professor of physiology and biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
Acad Med. 2017 May;92(5):628-634. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001478.
Traditional underrepresented minority (URM) groups (African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans) remain underrepresented among physician-scientists. To address the dearth of URM physician-scientists, in 1993 the Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program developed a pipeline program, Gateways to the Laboratory (Gateways), which focuses on increasing the breadth and depth of the URM physician-scientist pipeline by offering an all-encompassing summer research training program which mirrors the life of a physician-scientist. This includes hypothesis-driven research and clinical shadowing opportunities, coupled with weekly career development workshops and extensive multitiered mentoring. Among the 245 alumni who had "graduated" from Gateways as of 2013, 88% have pursued or completed advanced degrees. Among these, 74% completed or are pursuing MD, PhD, or MD-PhD degrees; and 17% completed or are pursuing combined MD-PhD degrees, over one-third of whom are enrolled in the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program. Gateways outcomes are compared to other programs with similar missions, which shows that Gateways has been successful at preparing URMs for MD-PhD Programs. The program serves as a model for how to increase the national pool of competitive URM MD-PhD applicants.
传统上代表性不足的少数族裔群体（非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美国原住民）在医学科学家群体中的占比仍然较低。为了解决代表性不足的少数族裔医学科学家稀缺的问题，1993年，威尔康奈尔医学院/洛克菲勒大学/纪念斯隆凯特琳癌症中心三机构医学博士-哲学博士项目开发了一个衔接项目——“实验室之门”（Gateways），该项目通过提供一个涵盖一切的暑期研究培训项目来专注于拓宽和加深代表性不足的少数族裔医学科学家人才储备渠道，这个暑期项目反映了医学科学家的生活。这包括以假设为驱动的研究和临床见习机会，再加上每周的职业发展研讨会以及广泛的多层次指导。截至2013年，在从“实验室之门”项目“毕业”的245名校友中，88%的人已经攻读或完成了更高学位。其中，74%的人完成或正在攻读医学博士、哲学博士或医学博士-哲学博士学位；17%的人完成或正在攻读医学博士-哲学博士联合学位，其中超过三分之一的人就读于三机构医学博士-哲学博士项目。“实验室之门”项目的成果与其他具有类似使命的项目进行了比较，结果表明“实验室之门”项目在为代表性不足的少数族裔进入医学博士-哲学博士项目做准备方面取得了成功。该项目为如何增加有竞争力的代表性不足的少数族裔医学博士-哲学博士项目申请者的全国储备量树立了一个典范。
