Mentoring For Success: Developing Fundamental Skills For Biomedical Research

该申请的主要目标是增加生物医学和生物医学领域的资助者/代表学生人数， 行为研究，通过扩大获得博士学位的机会，增加他们的参与， 在我国的学术、研究、行政和领导职位上。西北大学 拥有大量具有校外研究支持导师的机构，将吸引、留住 准备和促进不同的科学和社会的本科生和研究生的过渡- 经济背景进入生命和生物医学科学的博士后职位。我们将开发一个程序 增加这些科学领域的研究生的数量， 证书，但谁缺乏一些科学的准备，需要成功地完成一个 西北大学的研究生课程（NUIN，IGP，IBIS，BME，CBE）。的强度 该计划将设计一个个性化的课程，为每个学生在第一年的研究生 学校克服学术缺陷，并允许成功完成特定的研究生 第二年的核心课程。课程作业将辅以科学技能 课程，研究沟通技巧讲习班，延长研究轮换，教师和同行 促进辅导和指导。将特别强调发展假设驱动的研究 通过参加专业课程和研究工作， and communicationmentors通信.这将最大限度地提高他们成功完成博士学位的机会 学位，并将提高学生的竞争力，为外部奖学金或任命现有的培训 赠款（T32）。最后，我们将为学生过渡到具有竞争力的博士后研究职位做好准备 并在毕业后成功地参与领导职位。这些目标将会实现 通过要求学生在地方和国家会议上展示他们的研究，通过成为 参与科学社团的活动，及时发表科学成果。我们 预计该计划的成功将通过同行评审出版物的质量来衡量， 在科学会议上的演讲、研究和研究金奖励，以及成功过渡到 在生命和生物医学领域的学术界和工业界担任博士后研究和领导研究职位 科学领域。

The key goal ofthis application is to increase the numbers ofunder/represented students in biomedical and behavioral research, bybroadening the opportunities to earn Ph.Ddegrees and to increase their participation in academic, research, administrative and leadership positions in our country. Northwestern University, an institution with a significantnumber of mentors with extramural research support, will attract, retain, prepare and facilitatethe transition of undergraduate and graduate students of diverse scientific and social- economic backgroundsinto postdoctoral positions in life and biomedical science. We will develop a program to increase the number of graduate students in these areas of science who have the motivation and credentials to succeed,but who lack some ofthe scientific preparation needed to successfully complete oneof the graduate programsat Northwestern University(NUIN, IGP,IBiS, BME, CBE). The strength of the program will be to design an individualized curriculum for each student during the first year in graduate school to overcomeacademicdeficiencies and to allowfor successful completion ofthe specific graduate program core courses during the second year. Courseworkwillbe complemented with a scientific skills course, research communicationskills workshops, extended research rotations, and faculty and peer facilitated tutoring and mentoring. Special emphasis willbe placed on developing hypothesis driven research proposals and on writingand presentation skills by attending specialized courses and workingwith research and communicationmentors. This will maximize the opportunities for successfulcompletion of their PhD degree, and will increase student competitiveness for external fellowships or appointment to existing training grants (T32). Finally, wewillprepare students to transition into competitivepostdoctoral research positions and to successfully participate in leadership positions beyond graduation. These goals willbe accomplished by requiring students to present their research at local and national meetings, by becoming members of and participating in the activities of scientificsocieties and by timelypublication of scientific findings. We anticipate that the success of the program willbe measured by the quality ofpeer review publications and presentations at scientific meetings, research and fellowship awards, and successful transition to postdoctoral research and leadership research positions in academia and industry in life and biomedical science areas.