# AAMC Career Development Program for MOSAIC Scholars

> **NIH NIH UE5** · ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES · 2024 · $233,075

## 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 diverse backgrounds, for example 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 virtual skills-building workshop and in-person networking and learning event
participation, engagement 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. 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:** 11110115
- **Project number:** 3UE5GM139181-05S1
- **Recipient organization:** ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES
- **Principal Investigator:** Jodi Yellin
- **Activity code:** UE5 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $233,075
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-08-01 → 2025-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11110115

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11110115, AAMC Career Development Program for MOSAIC Scholars (3UE5GM139181-05S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11110115. Licensed CC0.

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