Development and Assessment of a Sustainable PhD Internship Program Supporting Diverse Biomedical Career Outcomes.
Development and Assessment of a Sustainable PhD Internship Program Supporting Diverse Biomedical Career Outcomes.
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支持多样化生物医学职业成果的可持续博士实习计划的开发和评估。
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10.1101/2023.07.13.548912
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2023
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Layton,RebekahL
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Brandt,PatrickD;Whittington,Dawayne;Wood,KimberleyD;Holmquist,Chris;Nogueira,AnaT;Gaines,ChristiannH;Brennwald,PatrickJ;Layton,RebekahL
查佩尔山的北卡罗来纳州大学开发了一项博士级实习计划，旨在为生物医学学员创造可定制的体验式学习机会，以支持职业探索，准备和过渡到他们的研究生专业角色。我们报告了该计划在五年内的成果。在这5年期间，在70多个合作伙伴地点进行了123次实习，代表了生命科学领域至少20种学术、营利和非营利职业道路。该方案的一个主要目标是加强受训人员的技能发展和对感兴趣的职业的专门知识。使用混合方法的方法，包括调查与封闭式和开放式的反应，以及焦点小组访谈的实习生，主机/雇主，和主管/主要研究者的实习计划的好处进行了评估。平衡利益相关者的利益是创造一个可持续发展的计划与广泛的支持的关键;因此，从实习主机和教师的支持水平是整个分析的关键指标。我们假设，一旦一个成功的实习计划实施，教师文化可能会转变为更接受实习;事实上，量化教师态度的数据支持这一点。此外，东道国的动机和实习生的业绩预期与取得的成果进行了比较，这些数据揭示了预期和令人惊讶的好处主机。数据表明，每个利益攸关方群体都有无数的好处，并对主题进行了分类和讨论。计划成果，评估数据，政策，资源和最佳实践，通过实施该计划的共享，以提供资源，促进在其他机构类似的实习计划的创建。项目开发最初是由美国国立卫生研究院试点资助推动的，此后，成功地从赠款支持的模式过渡到机构支持的资助模式，以实现长期的项目可持续性。
A doctoral-level internship program was developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with the intent to create customizable experiential learning opportunities for biomedical trainees to support career exploration, preparation, and transition into their postgraduate professional roles. We report the outcomes of this program over a 5-year period. During that 5-year period, 123 internships took place at over 70 partner sites, representing at least 20 academic, for-profit, and non-profit career paths in the life sciences. A major goal of the program was to enhance trainees’ skill development and expertise in careers of interest. The benefits of the internship program for interns, host/employer, and supervisor/principal investigator were assessed using a mixed-methods approach, including surveys with closed-and open-ended responses as well as focus group interviews. Balancing stakeholder interests is key to creating a sustainable program with widespread support; hence, the level of support from internship hosts and faculty members were the key metrics analyzed throughout. We hypothesized that once a successful internship program was implemented, faculty culture might shift to be more accepting of internships; indeed, the data quantifying faculty attitudes support this. Furthermore, host motivation and performance expectations of interns were compared with results achieved, and this data revealed both expected and surprising benefits to hosts. Data suggests a myriad of benefits for each stakeholder group, and themes are cataloged and discussed. Program outcomes, evaluation data, policies, resources, and best practices developed through the implementation of this program are shared to provide resources that facilitate the creation of similar internship programs at other institutions. Program development was initially spurred by National Institutes of Health pilot funding, thereafter, successfully transitioning from a grant-supported model, to an institutionally supported funding model to achieve long-term programmatic sustainability.