Mentoring For Success: Developing Fundamental Skills For Biomedical Research

成功指导：培养生物医学研究的基本技能

• 批准号: 7371126
• 负责人: Richard McGee
• 金额: $ 41.63万
• 依托单位: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-03-05 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7371126
• 关键词: Academia; Admission activity; African American; Alaska Native; American Indians; Appointment; Aptitude; Area; Asians; Award; Behavioral Research; Biological Sciences; Biomedical Research; Censuses; Characteristics; Communication Research; Complement; Country; Credentialing; Dedications; Doctor of Philosophy; Economics; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Engineering; Enrollment; Extramural Activities; Faculty; Fellowship; Funding; Goals; Grant; Hispanics; Industry; Institution; International; Journals; Leadership; Life; Measurable; Measures; Mentors; Motivation; Numbers; Pacific Island Americans; Paper; Peer Review; Placement; Population; Positioning Attribute; Preparation; Public Speaking; Publications; Publishing; Qualifying; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Research Proposals; Research Support; Rotation; Schools; Science; Scientific Societies; Senior Scientist; Staging; Students; Training; Underachievement; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; Work; Writing; design; desire; member; peer; pre-doctoral; programs; skills; success

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The key goal of this application is to increase the numbers of underrepresented students in biomedical and behavioral research by broadening the opportunities to earn Ph.D. degrees and to increase their participation in academic, research, administrative and leadership positions in our country. Northwestern University, an institution with a significant number of mentors with extramural research support, will attract, retain, prepare and facilitate the transition of undergraduate and graduate students of diverse scientific and socio-economic backgrounds into 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 of the scientific preparation needed to successfully complete one of the graduate programs at 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 overcome academic deficiencies and to allow for successful completion of the specific graduate program core courses during the second year. Course work will be complemented with a scientific skills course, research communication skills workshops, extended research rotations, and faculty and peer-facilitated tutoring and mentoring. Special emphasis will be placed on developing hypothesis-driven research proposals and on writing and presentation skills by attending specialized courses and working with research and communication mentors. This will maximize the opportunities for successful completion of the Ph.D. degree and will increase student competitiveness for external fellowships or appointment to existing training grants (T32). Finally, we will prepare students to transition into competitive postdoctoral research positions and to successfully participate in leadership positions beyond graduation. These goals will be accomplished by requiring students to present their research at local and national meetings, by becoming members of and participating in the activities of scientific societies and by timely publication of scientific findings. We anticipate that the success of the program will be measured by the quality of peer-reviewed 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.

描述(由申请者提供)：本申请的主要目标是通过扩大获得博士学位的机会，增加生物医学和行为研究中代表性不足的学生的数量，并增加他们在我国学术、研究、行政和领导职位的参与度。西北大学是一所拥有大量导师和校外研究支持的机构，将吸引、保留、准备和促进具有不同科学和社会经济背景的本科生和研究生过渡到生命和生物医学科学的博士后职位。我们将制定一项计划，以增加这些科学领域的研究生的数量，他们有成功的动机和资格，但缺乏成功完成西北大学(NUIN、IGP、IBIS、BME、CBE)研究生课程所需的一些科学准备。该计划的优势将是在研究生院的第一年为每个学生设计个性化的课程，以克服学术缺陷，并允许在第二年成功完成特定的研究生计划核心课程。课程工作将与科学技能课程、研究交流技能研讨会、延长研究轮换以及教职员工和同行促进的辅导和辅导相补充。将特别重视通过参加专门课程以及与研究和交流导师合作，制定以假设为导向的研究建议，以及写作和陈述技能。这将最大限度地增加成功完成博士学位的机会，并将增加学生获得外部奖学金或获得现有培训补助金的竞争力(T32)。最后，我们将帮助学生准备好过渡到竞争激烈的博士后研究岗位，并在毕业后成功地参与领导岗位。这些目标将通过以下方式实现：要求学生在地方和国家会议上介绍他们的研究成果，成为科学学会的成员并参与其活动，及时发表科学发现。我们预计，该计划的成功将以同行评议的出版物和在科学会议、研究和奖学金奖项上发表的报告的质量，以及成功过渡到生命和生物医学领域学术界和工业界的博士后研究和领导研究职位来衡量。