Friedman Adam D, Melendez Carlos R, Bush Antonio A, Lai Samuel K, McLaughlin Jacqueline E
1Eshelman Institute for Innovation, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA.
2UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA.
Int J STEM Educ. 2017;4(1):17. doi: 10.1186/s40594-017-0081-4. Epub 2017 Sep 16.
Professional schools, such as schools of pharmacy, are rarely involved with promoting STEM interests among secondary school students. To address this shortcoming, the Young Innovators Program (YIP) was created to provide local secondary school students a summer immersive experiential program at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. The objective of this study was to assess the ability of the inaugural YIP to promote STEM interest, career awareness, and self-efficacy.
YIP interns maintained high levels of STEM interest, career awareness, and self-efficacy. In addition, they reported significant increases in their perceptions of having role models in science.
Immersion in research laboratories and clinics at a school of pharmacy can promote high levels of STEM interest, career awareness, and self-efficacy and provide interns with STEM professional role models. Our findings support YIP's vision that professional pharmacy schools can play an influential role in recruiting secondary school students to STEM disciplines.
诸如药学院之类的专业院校很少参与提升中学生对科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的兴趣。为解决这一不足，设立了青年创新者计划（YIP），为当地中学生在北卡罗来纳大学埃谢尔曼药学院提供一个暑期沉浸式体验项目。本研究的目的是评估首届YIP促进STEM兴趣、职业意识和自我效能感的能力。
YIP实习生保持了对STEM的高度兴趣、职业意识和自我效能感。此外，他们报告称，自己认为有科学领域榜样的认知显著增加。
沉浸于药学院的研究实验室和临床环境中，可以促进对STEM的高度兴趣、职业意识和自我效能感，并为实习生提供STEM专业榜样。我们的研究结果支持YIP的愿景，即专业药学院在吸引中学生投身STEM学科方面可以发挥有影响力的作用。
