REPORT OF THE NAGMS COUNCIL

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REPORT OF THE NAGMS COUNCIL MORE DIVISION WORKING
GROUP

• Charge to the Group
• The National Advisory General Medical Sciences
  (NAGMS) Council MORE Division Working Group was
  formed to provide guidance to the NAGMS Council
  with regard to the programs of the MORE (Minority
  Opportunities in Research) Division. The Working
  Group was asked to review the original mandates,
  the current rationales, and the objectives of the
  existing MORE programs. They were also asked to
  make recommendations to the NAGMS Council in
  terms of existing programs and future
  initiatives.
• The group met on August 18-19, 2005 and May 17,
  2006, with a teleconference on April 26, 2006

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• Clarify the goals of the MORE program
• The emphasis of the MORE programs should be to
  increase the number of URM students with Ph.D.s
  with an emphasis to increase the number of
  faculty in colleges and universities.
• The primary focus of MORE programs should be the
  training of students and post-doctoral fellows.
• MORE programs at non-research minority serving
  institutions should be used primarily to support
  teaching and developing research competence at
  these schools.
• To increase awareness that MORE program funding
  for student training can be accessed by all
  institutions that educate and train URM.

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• Evaluation
• NIGMS must do a better job of documenting
  outcomes and evaluating the success of its
  individual programs.
• With utmost urgency to collect information that
  can inform expected and projected outcomes and to
  guide assessment.
• Establish a standing advisory committee of NAGMS
  for URM training across all NIGMS programs
• Incorporate MORE programs into NIGMS research
  divisions
• All NIGMS programs should identify ways to
  incorporate the goals of the MORE division into
  their own programs.

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• Undergraduate Research Opportunities for minority
  students
• Establish formal partnerships between MSI and
  Teaching and Research Intensive Institutions to
  promote research opportunities for students at
  non research MSI.
• Expand programs supporting research opportunities
  for minority students at majority institutions.
• Development of a faculty career award to support
  faculty efforts to promote diversity.
• It is the obligation of all research grants to
  provide undergraduate research opportunities.
• Broadly publicize that multiple undergraduate
  minority supplements per research grant are
  encouraged.

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• Graduate Postdoctoral Research Opportunities
• NIGMS should do more to increase the number of
  URM in top ranked graduate programs.
• Emphasis that URM graduate students are placed in
  highly competitive and well mentored postdoctoral
  positions.
• Analysis of faculty hiring patterns at colleges
  and universities.
• Multiple graduate and postdoctoral supplements
  per research grant

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• Promote Gateways to Faculty positions
• Support the transition of URM scientists from
  postdoctoral fellow to faculty member. Recommend
  a parallel K22 path for URM faculty at majority
  or minority institutions.
• Evaluation of programs
• To increase the number of URM involvement in
  NIGMS programs by 10 per year to achieve a
  potential doubling of URM faculty in 8 yrs.
• Create an NIH-wide office of training statistics
  to include minority data.

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Roster of MORE Working Group (member of NAGMS
council)