NSF INCLUDES DDLP: BEST BET: Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training - Beginning Enhancement Track

科学培训的拓展经验：初学强化轨道(“BEST-BET”)是一个包括设计和开发启动试点项目的NSF项目，利用了五个研究密集型机构的专业知识，这些机构为生物医学研究中的博士和博士后学员制定了职业和专业发展方面的创新方案。该项目的目标是扩大工作范围和影响工作，以便让学生更早地参与到他们的职业探索中来。具体地说，该项目将针对那些可能没有意识到他们有多种职业选择的本科生。这些机会包括在学术界、生物技术和制药行业、科学交流、科学政策和技术转让/专利法方面的机会。这项努力将侧重于来自STEM领域普遍代表性不足的人群的本科生，包括但不限于种族、种族和社会经济服务不足的社区。这笔赠款将为少数族裔服务机构的学生提供教育机会，并将评估为这一社区提供新机会的影响。多样化和包容性社区的关键贡献对于在所有科学、技术和经济领域取得进展至关重要。通过促进教育的多样性，该项目旨在使本科生在他们的专业发展阶段能够参与到广泛的劳动力机会中，从而推动科学进步和国民健康。BEST BET的重点将是使用一个集体影响框架，将机构的“BEST网络”与从事本科教育的合作伙伴连接起来，这些合作伙伴来自对生命科学感兴趣的代表性不足社区的学生。基本的前提是，职业探索专注于医生培训以外的机会，将使这一学习群体参与到医学预科之外的生命科学工作中，并保持他们对完成学位的投入。将使用多种策略来实现最佳投注的目标。它们是在两个主要目标的背景下组织起来的，这两个主要目标大致分为计划的活动范围。第一个目标侧重于“职业探索”，并提出了协助伙伴机构建设职业和技能发展能力的战略。第二个是基于最佳实地考察的增强体验，这样本科生将有机会想象作为研究生的生活以及以后的生活。这些策略可能会增强完成学士学位并进入博士课程的毅力。

The Broadening Experience for Scientific Training: Beginning Enhancement Track ("BEST-BET"), an NSF INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilot project, draws upon the expertise of five research-intensive institutions that have developed innovative programing in career and professional development for doctoral and postdoctoral trainees in biomedical research. The goal of the project is to expand the scope and leverage the work so as to engage students earlier in their career exploration. Specifically, the project will target undergraduates who may not be aware of the multitude of career options available to them. These include opportunities in academia, the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, science communication, science policy, and technology transfer/patent law. The effort will focus on undergraduates who come from populations generally underrepresented in STEM fields, including but not limited to ethnically, racially and socioeconomically underserved communities. The grant will support educational opportunities for students at minority-serving institutions and will assess the impact of providing new opportunities to this community. The critical contributions of a diverse and inclusive community are essential to progress in all STEM fields. By promoting diversity in education, this project aims to engage undergraduate students at a point in their professional development that could enable participation in a wide range of workforce opportunities so as to advance the progress of science and national health. The focus of BEST BET will be to use a collective impact framework to connect the "BEST network" of institutions to partners engaged in undergraduate education of students from underrepresented communities who are interested in the life sciences. The underlying premise is that career exploration focused on opportunities that go beyond physician training will enable engagement of this community of learners in the life science workforce beyond the pre-med track and keep them engaged in degree completion. Multiple strategies will be used to attain the goals of BEST BET. They are organized in the context of two major objectives roughly divided into the scope of planned activities. The first objective focuses on "career exploration" and offers strategies to assist partner institutions to build career and skill development capacities. The second is grounded in an enhanced experience of BEST site visits whereby undergraduates will have the opportunity to envision life as a graduate student and beyond. These strategies will likely enhance persistence to complete the baccalaureate degree and move onto doctoral programs.