Mentoring For Success: Developing Fundamental Skills For Biomedical Research

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请的主要目标是通过拓宽获得博士学位的机会来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。西北大学是一个拥有大量校外研究支持的导师的机构，它将吸引、留住、培养和促进具有不同科学和社会经济背景的本科生和研究生进入生命和生物医学科学博士后岗位。我们将制定一项计划，以增加这些科学领域的研究生人数，这些研究生有取得成功的动机和证书，但缺乏成功完成西北大学研究生课程（NUIN， IGP, IBiS， BME， CBE）所需的一些科学准备。该项目的优势在于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课程核心课程。课程工作将辅以科学技能课程、研究沟通技巧研讨会、扩展研究轮转以及教师和同行促进的辅导和指导。通过参加专业课程和与研究和交流导师合作，将特别强调发展假设驱动的研究建议和写作和演讲技巧。这将最大限度地提高成功完成博士学位的机会，并将提高学生获得外部奖学金或任命现有培训补助金的竞争力（T32）。最后，我们将准备学生过渡到有竞争力的博士后研究岗位，并在毕业后成功参与领导岗位。这些目标将通过要求学生在地方和国家会议上展示他们的研究、成为科学学会的成员和参与科学学会的活动以及及时发表科学发现来实现。我们预计，该计划的成功将通过同行评审的出版物和在科学会议上的演讲质量、研究和奖学金奖励、成功过渡到生命和生物医学科学领域的学术界和工业界的博士后研究和领导研究职位来衡量。

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.