Neuroscience Training Program at Washington University

这项提案来自华盛顿大学生物学和生物医学系的神经科学项目 科学（DBBS），是一个新的应用程序，共同赞助的露丝L。Kirschstein国家研究服务 授予神经科学机构博士前培训计划。我们的首要目标是 神经科学计划是装备我们的学员在神经系统功能的坚实基础， 功能障碍，识别问题并设计策略以批判性和严格地解决问题的能力，以及 在研究中执行，演示和指导他人所需的技能。我们目前训练的优势 计划包括一个强大的和不断发展的课程，以解决现代神经科学的关键领域和 在任何神经科学职业生涯中取得成功所必需的技能，重点是提高学生的多样性， 神经科学和保留不同的学生在程序中，合议和协作的气氛，广泛 机构支持，多种神经科学相关的社区外展和教学机会， 支持性的行政结构，促进教育过程的各个方面，从招聘 学生的论文答辩和超越。该提案以这些功能为基础， 旨在改进定量、实验和统计思维的举措， 和/或在与学生的研究，现代化的课程交付，提供相关领域的高级培训， 循证伦理培训，以解决广为宣传的严格性和可重复性问题， 评估这些举措的影响，并根据需要修改其实施。我们要求 11个插槽为学生在他们的第一和第二年。学生将从这个计划中脱颖而出， 在实验和统计思想，道德和方法的基础，以提高严谨性和可重复性。 该计划的教师也将受益于这些领域的新兴方法和方法。

This proposal, from the Neuroscience Program in Washington University’s Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences (DBBS), is a new application to the Jointly Sponsored Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Institutional Predoctoral Training Program in the Neurosciences. The overarching goals of our Neuroscience program are to equip our trainees with a firm foundation in nervous system function and dysfunction, the ability to identify problems and design strategies to address them critically and rigorously, and the skills required to perform, present, and mentor others in research. The strengths of our current training program include a strong and evolving curriculum to address critical areas of modern neuroscience and the skills necessary for success in any neuroscience career, a focus on improving diversity of students in neuroscience and retaining diverse students in the program, a collegial and collaborative atmosphere, broad institutional support, multiple neuroscience-related opportunities for community outreach and teaching and a supportive administrative structure that facilitates all aspects of the educational process, from recruitment of students to thesis defense and beyond. This proposal builds on these features with ongoing and future initiatives aimed at improving quantitative, experimental and statistical thinking, facilitating interdisciplinary and/or advanced training in areas relevant to a student’s research, modernizing curriculum delivery, providing evidence-based ethics training to address well-publicized problems of rigor and reproducibility, and assessing the impact of these initiatives and modifying their implementation as needed. We are requesting 11 slots for students in their 1st and 2nd years. Students will emerge from this program with a stronger foundation in experimental and statistical thinking, ethics and methods to improve rigor and reproducibility. Faculty in the program will also benefit from exposure to emerging methods and approaches in these areas.