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4 Overcoming Barriers to Progress
4 Overcoming Barriers to Progress
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This list is the rapporteurs' summary of points made by the individual speakers identified, and the statements have not been endorsed or verified by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. They are not intended to reflect a consensus among workshop participants.
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While interest in STEM is similar among racial and ethnic groups and there has been a proportionate increase in minority STEM degree recipients, August stated that "we need to do more." To achieve a STEM workforce that is reflective of the population, the participation rate of minority students needs to be significantly increased. August said that "establishing a R&D drug workforce is not going to be achieved using our current workforce model." There needs to be "significant changes in how we train the biomedical workforce so that we can prepare for a future drug force that is more diverse and that can support a broader diversity of our population," he said.
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Educational institutions need to consider not just the content that students are learning, but the environment they create and resources for mental health offered, he said. August told workshop participants about his work chairing the steering committee of a gathering called the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists1 (ABRCMS)
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A DIVERSE MEDICAL STUDENT BODY Tonya Fancher, the vice chair of workforce diversity and associate dean of workforce innovation and education quality improvement at the University of California (UC) , Davis, told workshop participants about her work to recruit, train, and retain a diverse group of medical students to meet the needs of California.
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This program is a collaboration across the West Coast, she said, and reduces barriers to education by creating path ways for students such as conditional acceptance to medical school after completion of a post-baccalaureate program. These programs and other efforts by UC Davis have made a significant impact on the diversity of the student body.
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BARRIERS, CHALLENGES, AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS Perdita Taylor-Zapata, the program lead for the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act Clinical Program at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, moderated a discussion among panelists and workshop participants. Leveraging Early Engagement Taylor-Zapata began by asking panelists to identify the main barriers related to developing a more person-centered and culturally aware workforce along with potential approaches to address these challenges.
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Schor told workshop participants about several efforts at NIH related to building community. First, there are new grant mechanisms directed at cohort hiring and recruitment6 -- that is, bringing people in as part of a group.
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Another approach for expanding and diversifying the workforce, Hernandez said, is to reach into underserved communities to find people who are "mission-oriented and passionate about what they do." It is important to think outside the traditional models of clinical research and expand the idea of who can do the work, he said. For example, instead of hiring clinical research associates specifically, other professionals such as social workers could be trained and brought into the fold.
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Promoting Team Science Taylor-Zapata introduced the idea of "team science," in which people from across the clinical research pathway are communicating and collaborating, from investigators to social workers to patients. Hernandez agreed that this is a critical issue and said that the disciplines considered to be part of the clinical research team have rapidly expanded.
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Direct patient contact establishes an emotional bond and makes it "really visceral," Hernandez said. Expanding these types of exposures to everyone on the clinical research team could make a big difference in creating a more person-centered workforce and, by extension, person-centered research, he said.
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Partnering with Community Members Workshop participant Keith Norris, a professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, asked panelists about having community members serve in faculty positions as a way of engaging more deeply with the community. He said that there are many individuals who have a lot of skills but not the formal education normally required for faculty.
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OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO PROGRESS 39 responded that she is motivated in her work by leaving a legacy -- creating something that did not exist and ensuring that it remains after she is gone. Because of this perspective, Schor said that she thinks about sustainability from the very beginning of an idea for a program.
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