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Program Director:
Dr. Brenda Armstrong
Associate Dean of Medical Education and Director of Medical School Admissions Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Duke University School of Medicine
Duke University
0159 Duke Hospital South, Erwin Road
Durham, NC 27710
8776842985
brenda.armstrong@duke.edu
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The Duke University School of Medicine (DUSM), and the Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) propose to implement BOOST (Building Opportunities and Overtures in Science and Technology), a science education program for students and teachers in 5th and 6th grade. BOOST will establish sustainable strategies to increase the longitudinal science engagement, and to improve the science performance of students in its partner-schools; BOOST will focus especially on recruiting students from groups traditionally underrepresented in the sciences. As partners, DUSM, DUMC and DPS hope to achieve the following mutual goals:
1. To expand and tighten the 'pipeline' of school-based and curriculum-support programs that groom students, particularly disadvantaged and under-served minority students, for biomedical careers;
2. To improve science education at a critical juncture, that between elementary and middle school, where students' academic scores and science interest drop off dramatically, and those of students from disadvantaged and underrepresented minority groups even more precipitously;
3. To close the achievement gap in science between students from disadvantaged and underrepresented groups and majority students in DPS.
Student activities will introduce students to exciting biomedical research and science applications through inquiry-based classroom activities throughout the school year, mentored independent research projects, field trips to biomedical laboratories and a one-week Middle School Simulation at the end of 5th grade.
Fifth and sixth grade teachers can participate in a `Summer Science Immersion', which will provide teachers with latest science content, inquiry-based learning methods, strategies for motivating students, and networking opportunities. A quarterly teacher training series, the `Science Summit', and semi-annual workshops, `Science Scope', are also planned.
Medical students and M.D./Ph.D. students will deliver interactive classroom presentations on their research, mentor students on independent projects, and serve as tour guides in the labs during school visits.
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