Hopkins Michael J, Moore Brittni N, Jeffery Jasmin L, Young Andrea S
Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States.
Department of Physiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States.
Elife. 2024 Mar 12;13:e94422. doi: 10.7554/eLife.94422.
Graduate programs in the biomedical sciences dedicate considerable resources to recruiting students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. However, students from these minoritized groups have decreased access to the 'hidden curriculum' that must be navigated in order to be successful in graduate school. Here, we describe a student-led initiative at Johns Hopkins University, the Hidden Curriculum Symposium, that is organized to help prepare new students from underrepresented groups for graduate school. Preliminary evidence from surveys suggests that the initiative does increase the preparedness of minoritized students, and we believe this approach could also prove useful at other academic institutions.
生物医学科学的研究生项目投入了大量资源来招收来自代表性不足的种族和族裔群体的学生。然而，这些少数群体的学生获得“隐性课程”的机会减少了，而要在研究生院取得成功就必须掌握这些隐性课程。在此，我们描述了约翰·霍普金斯大学一项由学生主导的倡议——隐性课程研讨会，该研讨会旨在帮助来自代表性不足群体的新生为研究生阶段做好准备。调查的初步证据表明，该倡议确实提高了少数群体学生的准备程度，我们相信这种方法在其他学术机构也可能有用。
