Inst.Research and Academic Career Development Award

描述（由申请人提供）： 这是一项旨在增加少数民族院校高素质教师人数的建议。我们的战略从MMC/范德比尔特联盟环境中演变而来，旨在利用两所学校的互补优势。 简而言之，我们建议在范德比尔特大量合格的少数民族博士后研究员的基础上，他们中的许多人已经从MMC毕业。这些人将扩展到范德比尔特众多优秀的研究实验室之一他们的博士前研究培训。 此外，我们将建立一个广泛的指导计划，旨在准备这些博士后研究员成为教师就业市场的高度竞争力。这种培训将包括在MMC精心指导的教学经验，以及对实验室管理的详细介绍。 最后，在许多方面，最重要的是，我们将建立机制，以促进这些人的研究独立性，使他们最终将实际上运行自己的实验室之前，他们准备移动到教师的位置。 我们建议通过在实验室内提供技术支持来进一步实现这些目标，因为博士后研究员正在积极参与自己的研究重点的发展，同时接触到旨在使他们处于激烈竞争地位的教师任命的教学策略。 这样的人应该是有吸引力的教师职位在任何一流的机构，但我们特别建议，以方便他们获得在MMC的位置，这将是由一个联合任命在医学院的范德比尔特部门的补充。 将采用的战略详情如下。 然而，我们强调，虽然联盟的实力使我们能够发展这一选择，我们将与学生密切合作，帮助他们建立教师职位在任何机构，他们认为满足他们的教师职业抱负。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal directed at increasing the number of highly qualified faculty at Minority institutions. Our strategy evolved from within the MMC/Vanderbilt Alliance environment and is designed to utilize the complementary strengths of the two schools. In brief, we propose to build upon the substantial number of well qualified minority postdoctoral fellows at Vanderbilt, many of whom have graduated from MMC. These individuals will extend their predoctoral research training into one of the many outstanding research laboratories at Vanderbilt. In addition we will institute an extensive mentoring program designed to prepare these postdoctoral fellows to become highly competitive in the faculty job market. Such training would encompass carefully mentored teaching experience at MMC as well as a detailed introduction to lab management. Finally, and in many ways, most importantly, we will set in place mechanisms to facilitate the research independence of these individuals, so that they will eventually be in effect running their own laboratory before they prepare for the move to a faculty position. We propose to further these goals by providing technical support within the laboratory as the postdoctoral fellows become intensely involved in the development of their own research focus, at the same time as becoming exposed to teaching strategies designed to put them in an intensely competitive position for a faculty appointment. Such an individual should be attractive for a faculty position at any first rate institution, however we are specifically proposing to facilitate them gaining a position at MMC, which would be supplemented by a joint appointment in a Vanderbilt department in the Medical School. The details of the strategies to be employed are presented below. However, we stress that although the strength of the Alliance allows us to develop this option, we will work closely with the students to help them establish faculty positions at any institution that they see as satisfying their faculty career aspirations.