Core D: Career Development

几乎没有机会被培养成一流的烟草控制研究人员，他们可以通过跨多个层次和学科视角的工作来真正取得突破，推动该领域的发展。TTURC 2职业发展核心由同一管理团队领导，将以TTURC 1的成功为基础，旨在为早期职业科学家提供强化培训经验，并为已建立的科学家提供重要的职业成长经验。八名初级教员和两名博士后研究员将同时接受为期三年的强化培训。基于能力的跨学科培训模式 受训者个人的需求将导致以下能力：(A)所有跨学科的烟草控制研究人员共享的能力；(B)受训者个人在特定TTURC项目上的工作以及他/她自己的烟草研究计划所特有的能力。培训活动将包括与两个学科的项目教员一起指导研究经验以及教学，包括每周90分钟的跨学科研究研讨会，每月 与受训者的主要和次要教师主管会面，每两周与次要导师会面一次，每两周长达一小时，根据阅读提纲对次要学科进行辅导审查，以及其他计划研讨会、研讨会和课程。对于老牌科学家来说，每季度一次的跨大西洋视频会议和两次世界共识会议将提供丰富的职业成长体验。受训人员选择程序将强调创建一个来自不同学科、性别以及种族和文化背景的不同调查人员小组。每六个月和每年一次的正式评价程序将监测个别受训人员在发展基本的跨学科能力、在研究方面取得成效、在导师-受训人员关系中建立独立性以及获得外部资金方面的进展情况。将使用正式的评估程序来确保高质量的指导和总体计划的有效性。

There are few opporttmities to be trained to become top-rate tobacco control reseaxchers who can truly advance the field with breakthroughs by working across multiple levels and disciplinary perspectives. The TTURC 2 Career Development Core, led by the same admininstrative team, will build on the successes of TTURC 1 and aim to provide intensive training experiences for early career scientists and major professional growth experiences for established scientists. Intensive three-year training will be delivered concurrently to eight junior faculty and two postdoctoral fellows. A competeney-basedmodel of transdisciplinary training tailored the needs of the individual trainee will lead to competeneies that are (a) shared by all transdisciplinary tobacco control researchers and (b) specific to the individual trainee's work on a particular TTURC project as well as his/her own program of tobacco research. Training activities will include mentored research experiences with program faculty in two disciplines as well as didactics including a weekly 90 minute transdisciplinary research seminar, monthly oint meetings with the trainee's primary and secondary faculty supervisors, bi-weekly hour-long meetings with heir secondary mentor in a tutorial review of the secondary discipline based on a syllabi of readings, and other program workshops, seminars, and courses. For established scientists, quarterly transatlantic videoconferences and two world consensus conferences will provide rich professional growth experiences. Trainee selection procedures will emphasize the creation of a diverse group of investigators from different disciplines, genders, and racial and cultural backgrounds. Formal evaluation procedures occurring at six months and then annually will monitor the indivdual trainee progress in developing essential transdisciplinary competencies, being productive in research, establishing independence within the mentor-trainee relationship, and securing external funding. Formal evaluation procedures will be used to ensure quality mentoring and overall program effectiveness.