Abebe Kaleab Z, Morone Natalia E, Mayowski Colleen A, Rubio Doris M, Kapoor Wishwa K
Center for Research on Health Care, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Institute for Clinical Research Education, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
J Clin Transl Sci. 2019 Feb;3(1):21-26. doi: 10.1017/cts.2019.364.
The need to diversify the biomedical research workforce is well documented. The importance of fostering the careers of fledgling underrepresented background (URB) biomedical researchers is evident in light of the national and local scarcity of URB scientists in biomedical research. The Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care Research Diversity (CEED) program at the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE) was designed to promote career success and help seal the "leaky pipeline" for URB researchers. In this study, we aimed to quantify CEED's effect on several key outcomes by comparing CEED Scholars to a matched set of URB ICRE trainees not enrolled in CEED using data collected over 10 years.
We collected survey data on CEED Scholars from 2007 to 2017 and created a matched set of URB trainees not enrolled in CEED using propensity score matching in a 1:1 ratio. Poisson regression was used to compare the rate of publications between CEED and non-CEED URB trainees after adjusting for baseline number of publications.
CEED has 45 graduates. Seventy-six percent are women, 78% are non-White, and 33% are Hispanic/Latino. Twenty-four CEED Scholars were matched to non-CEED URB trainees. Compared to matched URB trainees, CEED graduates had more peer-reviewed publications (=0.0261) and were more likely to be an assistant professor (=0.0145).
Programs that support URB researchers can help expand and diversify the biomedical research workforce. CEED has been successful despite the challenges of a small demographic pool.
生物医学研究人员队伍多元化的必要性已有充分记录。鉴于全国和地方生物医学研究领域中来自代表性不足背景（URB）的科学家稀缺，培养初出茅庐的URB生物医学研究人员的职业发展具有重要意义。匹兹堡大学临床研究教育学院（ICRE）的医疗保健研究多样性职业教育与提升（CEED）项目旨在促进职业成功，并帮助堵住URB研究人员的“人才流失管道”。在本研究中，我们旨在通过使用10年收集的数据，将CEED学者与一组未参加CEED的匹配URB ICRE学员进行比较，来量化CEED对几个关键结果的影响。
我们收集了2007年至2017年CEED学者的调查数据，并使用倾向得分匹配以1:1的比例创建了一组未参加CEED的匹配URB学员。在调整出版物基线数量后，使用泊松回归比较CEED和非CEED的URB学员之间的出版物发表率。
CEED有45名毕业生。76%为女性，78%为非白人，33%为西班牙裔/拉丁裔。24名CEED学者与非CEED的URB学员进行了匹配。与匹配的URB学员相比，CEED毕业生有更多经过同行评审的出版物（=0.0261），并且更有可能成为助理教授（=0.0145）。
支持URB研究人员的项目有助于扩大生物医学研究人员队伍并使其多元化。尽管面临人口基数小的挑战，CEED项目仍取得了成功。
