Evaluation of TEACH (Training Early Achievers for Careers in Health) Research

NCT ID: NCT00204035

Last Updated: 2025-04-09

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Total Enrollment: 400 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2004-06-30
• Study Completion Date: 2034-09-30

Brief Summary

The conceptual framework underlying the TEACH Research Program is based on a specific theoretical approach designed to influence adolescent career choice, in this case towards a career in clinical research. The factors responsible for influencing career choice that form the foundation for our investigation are: 1) the importance of role models in career choice; 2) acquisition of knowledge in order to align ambitions; and 3) the participation of students in activities that actively challenge and engage them. These three factors are addressed by the following three components of the TEACH Research Intervention: 1) participation in a research team consisting of a multi-tiered structure of mentors; 2) classroom instruction of clinical research knowledge and career strategies; and 3) a hands-on clinical research experience through an internship on the Hospitalist Project.

The evaluation of TEACH Research (Teaching Early Achievers for Careers in Health) aims to rigorously evaluate a precollege enrichment program in clinical research targeting high school students particularly underrepresented minorities, in order to increase the entry and success of these students into careers in clinical research. Through these measures, the TEACH Research Program will educate high achieving minority students and in turn hopefully encourage and promote these students to think about a career in clinical research.

Detailed Description

This projects aims to rigorously evaluate a precollege enrichment program in clinical research targeting high school students, and particularly underrepresented minorities, in order to increase the entry and success of these students into careers in clinical research.

Through the components listed in the brief summary, we hope to promote a career in clinical research among high achieving minority students. To determine whether TEACH research generates these benefits, we will recruit a larger number of candidates interested in the TEACH research than we have spots, then randomly assign students to TEACH Research or the standard more didactic enrichment programs already included in the Collegiate Scholars Program. In addition to determine the overall efficacy of the program, we will study how aspects of the program, including the didactic components, mentored research experience, and work experience, and characteristics of the student affect the development of the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors needed for a career in clinical research.

Conditions

Healthy

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

Evaluation (behavior)

TEACH is a precollege enrichment program for highschool students to encourage and promote these students towards careers in clinical research. To accomplish this, instruments designed to evaluate the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors are administered during their participation in the TEACH program.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Junior high school students in the Collegiate Scholars program

Exclusion Criteria

• Students other than junior high school students

• Minimum Eligible Age: 7 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 17 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Chicago

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

David Meltzer, M.D., Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Chicago

Locations

The University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

13199A

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id