# AAMC Career Development Program for MOSAIC Scholars

> **NIH NIH UE5** · ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES · 2023 · $150,368

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract:
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is committed to increasing the diversity,
equity, and inclusion of the biomedical research workforce and will help advance this goal by
continuing to develop and implement a multichannel educational program for cohorts of NIH-
awarded K99/R00 scholars from groups underrepresented in research as they transition from
postdoctoral appointments into academic research faculty positions. The supplemental funding
requested will allow the AAMC to proceed with richly and robustly engaging the scholars in a
curriculum throughout all award years that includes skills-building workshop participation,
immersive activities with their local institutional and AAMC-identified mentors, and leadership
and professional development conference attendance with field experts and peers nationwide.
Components of the program include: 1) Matching each scholar with an academic mentor
identified by the AAMC; 2) Partnering with the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN)
to create an exclusive environment where scholars and mentors can engage in culturally
responsive mentorship; 3) Delivering skill-building workshops, including partnering with the
Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) to deliver
mentoring content, and designing intersession work to prepare scholars for their transition to
faculty positions and to thrive as faculty members; 4) Offering participation in AAMC leadership
and professional development conferences that feature speakers who are successful leaders in
academic medicine and science, and include ample opportunity to meet and network with other
conference participants from the nation’s medical schools and teaching hospitals; and 5)
Organizing networking and learning events for scholars from all active cohorts to engage in
peer mentoring, hear from leaders in the field, and learn about leadership topics not covered in
the core skill-building workshops. The AAMC utilizes its vast network of diverse faculty and
leadership—across disciplines, medical specialties, and types of graduate degrees (MD, MD-
PhD, and PhD)—to identify mentors, faculty, and advisory committee members. Formative and
summative evaluations are utilized to determine whether the project effectively and efficiently
advances the overall program goal to enhance the diversity of the biomedical research
workforce by supporting individuals underrepresented in the field. We are also firmly committed
to broad dissemination of implementation results. The AAMC is ideally positioned for program
success—and has the resources, expertise, and reach to properly execute, assess, and
promote wider scaling of this endeavor.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10862027
- **Project number:** 3UE5GM139181-04S1
- **Recipient organization:** ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES
- **Principal Investigator:** ROSS E MCKINNEY
- **Activity code:** UE5 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2023
- **Award amount:** $150,368
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-08-01 → 2025-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10862027

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10862027, AAMC Career Development Program for MOSAIC Scholars (3UE5GM139181-04S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-29 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10862027. Licensed CC0.

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