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Short-Term Education Program for
Underrepresented Persons
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Introduction
This
short-term experience and training in biomedical research
provides undergraduate students from
racial/ethnic-underrepresented groups or from disadvantaged
backgrounds hands-on experience in
research. Both content knowledge and technical skills and
attitudinal and perceptional barriers to success must be
addressed in order to increase the number of undergraduate
students seeking careers in research. The
objectives of this program are that students will (1) learn,
through hands-on experience, how discovery research is
conducted and the results are disseminated to others, (2)
explore careers in biomedical research and become familiar
with the requirements to pursue selected career options, (3)
become proficient in using the Internet to acquire reliable
information and to exchange ideas and information, and (4)
learn about the prevention, cause and treatment of obesity,
diabetes, and kidney/ urologic/ digestive diseases. The
curriculum will also include discussions on normative
standards of conduct, privacy and confidentiality issues,
laboratory safety, research integrity, record keeping, data
management, and communication skills.
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