de Lacalle Sonsoles, Soenke Melissa
California State University.
Chron Mentor Coach. 2024 Jun;8(1):35-44. doi: 10.62935/gu7271.
Encouraging diversity in biomedical fields is especially important and begins at the undergraduate level. Culturally competent mentorship and high impact practices, like involvement in research, play important roles in fostering success among undergraduates from historically underrepresented groups. The current study followed 20 biomedical faculty as they completed two semester-long trainings, one in mentoring and one in course based undergraduate research (CUREs) as part of the NIH Diversity Program Consortium Dissemination and Translation Awards initiative. Comparisons of pre- and post-training survey data showed increased self-efficacy for mentoring biomedical research trainees and for mentoring diverse groups of biomedical trainees. These results suggest that focused, formal faculty training can be effective for improving mentoring, and consequently success of biomedical students.
鼓励生物医学领域的多样性尤为重要，且始于本科阶段。具备文化能力的指导以及高影响力的实践活动，比如参与研究，在促进历史上代表性不足群体的本科生取得成功方面发挥着重要作用。当前的研究跟踪了20位生物医学教员，他们完成了为期两个学期的培训，一个是关于指导，另一个是基于课程的本科研究（CUREs），这是美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）多样性计划联盟传播与转化奖倡议的一部分。培训前后调查数据的比较显示，在指导生物医学研究学员以及指导不同群体的生物医学学员方面，自我效能有所提高。这些结果表明，有针对性的正式教员培训对于改善指导，进而提高生物医学专业学生的成功率可能是有效的。
