Research Education Component

项目总结 美国老年人口的戏剧性增长要求发展和培训一名 生物医学研究队伍应对人口老龄化的挑战。因为中国的人口增长 老年人对种族和少数民族来说是最大的，培养具有专业知识的科学家尤为关键 调查老年人之间的种族和民族差异。因此，研究教育部分 佛罗里达大学(UF)RCMAR的目标是建立一个创新的研究、培训和指导 为来自代表性不足背景的早期职业调查人员设计的课程 我们的研究主题是老年人疼痛和残疾的生物、心理和社会驱动因素。这个 REC将制定一项多模式招聘战略，以吸引任职人数不足的有前途的调查人员 背景。培训将强调基于能力的技能发展，以进行高影响力的社会 以及解决老年人疼痛和残疾的生物心理社会贡献的行为研究。这个 REC将由在培训和指导早期职业调查人员方面具有丰富经验的联合领导者领导 并将得到一批杰出的跨学科导师的支持，他们致力于支持 RCMAR科学家的职业发展。为了实现其目标，区域经济共同体将与其他国家密切合作 RCMAR核心和其他提供职业发展支持的UF计划，包括临床和 翻译科学研究所(CTSI)，UF老年人独立中心(OAIC)青年学者 计划，以及综合和多学科疼痛和衰老研究培训(传授)计划。 通过这些努力，区域协调委员会将实现其支持推进区域协调机制的总体目标。 科学家正在成为独立的科学家，未来的领导者将成为疼痛和衰老的研究人员。按顺序 为了促进RCMAR科学家的职业发展，REC将确保每一位RCMAR科学家 由一个忠诚的多学科指导团队提供支持。所有RCMAR科学家都将在他们的指导下工作 团队根据他们的培训需求和职业目标制定个人发展计划(IDP)，并 目标。此外，REC将为每一位RCMAR科学家提供讲授和经验培训，以 促进他们的职业发展和向独立和领导力的成功过渡。REC还将 实施试点研究计划，以支持RCMAR科学家解决生物心理社会问题的研究 对老年人的疼痛和残疾的贡献。最后，区域选举委员会将监测和评估结果 它的研究和职业发展活动，其中将包括跟踪RCMAR科学家的出版物和 未来的赠款奖励，以及评估辅导和职业发展的过程和结果 由区域经济共同体支持的活动。REC的成功实施最终将改善老年人的健康 通过增强老龄化研究劳动力的多样性和产生重要的新知识来促进成年人 关于晚年疼痛和残疾的生物、心理和社会驱动因素和干预措施。

PROJECT SUMMARY The dramatic growth of the older adult population in the United States dictates the need to develop and train a biomedical research workforce to address the challenges of population aging. Because population growth among older adults is greatest for racial and ethnic minorities, it is particularly critical to develop scientists with expertise investigating racial and ethnic disparities among older adults. Therefore, the Research Education Component (REC) of the University of Florida (UF) RCMAR aims to establish an innovative research training and mentoring program designed for early career investigators from underrepresented backgrounds who are conducting research addressing our thematic focus of biopsychosocial drivers of pain and disability among older adults. The REC will enact a multimodal recruitment strategy to attract promising investigators from underrepresented backgrounds. Training will emphasize competency-based development of skills for conducting high-impact social and behavioral research addressing biopsychosocial contributions to pain and disability among older adults. The REC will be led by Co-Leaders with extensive experience in training and mentoring early career investigators and will be supported by an outstanding interdisciplinary pool of mentors who are committed to supporting the career development of RCMAR Scientists. To accomplish its goals, the REC will work closely with the other RCMAR Cores and with other UF programs that provide career development support, including the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), the UF Older Adults Independence Center (OAIC) Junior Scholars Program, and the Integrative and Multidisciplinary Pain and Aging Research Training (IMPART) Program. Through these efforts, the REC will achieve its overall objective of supporting the advancement of RCMAR Scientists toward becoming independent scientists and future leaders as pain and aging researchers. In order to promote the career development of RCMAR Scientists, the REC will ensure that each RCMAR Scientist is supported by a committed multidisciplinary mentoring team. All RCMAR Scientists will work with their mentoring team to develop an individual development plan (IDP) tailored to their training needs and career goals and objectives. Further, the REC will provide didactic and experiential training tailored to each RCMAR Scientist to facilitate their career development and successful transition to independence and leadership. The REC will also implement a Pilot Studies Program to support RCMAR Scientists' research addressing biopsychosocial contributions to pain and disability among older adults. Finally, the REC will monitor and evaluate the outcomes of its research and career development activities, which will include tracking RCMAR Scientists' publications and future grant awards, as well as evaluating both processes and outcomes of mentoring and career development activities supported by the REC. Successful implementation of the REC will ultimately improve the health of older adults by enhancing the diversity of the aging research workforce and generating important new knowledge regarding the biopsychosocial drivers of and interventions for later life pain and disability.