Mentoring Network for Clinician-Scientists in Communication Sciences & Disorders

描述(由申请人提供)：建议建立一个全国性的指导网络，通过加强传播学和传播学领域临床科学家的培训、保留和资助，加速耳聋和其他传播性障碍的基础研究、转化性研究和以患者为导向的研究的产生。将建立一个三级指导网络，在三个职业生涯的早期阶段，每年为大约30名有前途的临床医生-科学家(S教授)提供定制的指导和教育支持。除了提供持久和全面的指导支持外，拟议的指导网络还将包括开发一个多媒体资源库，即临床研究教育图书馆，以提供集中访问和广泛传播演讲、网络研讨会、播客和其他多媒体资源，这些资源主要将由参加该网络的杰出研究人员创建。将建立定制的在线社区平台，以支持协作学习和社交网络。网络参与者将能够通信和共享多媒体资源(例如，流视频、图像、音频文件)。S教授和导师们将在为期一年的会议开始时召开为期三天的会议--临床研究会议，以熟悉网络的工具、期望、要求和目标，并参与一个教育计划，其中将包括为三个层次中的每一个层次定制的路径。通过商业上提供的支持文件共享和共享桌面应用程序的虚拟会议技术，将在整个指导关系中支持导师-门生之间的沟通。在一年的参与期间，将通过四次实地调查(包括开始之前获得的基线测量)来评估S在实现其个性化目标集方面的进展情况。在资助的3年内，指导网络和相关的教育和沟通倡议将被设计、实施和评估(并在需要时改进)，成为由美国语言听力协会支持的持久计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A national mentoring network is proposed to accelerate the generation of fundamental, translational, and patient-oriented research in deafness and other communication disorders by enhancing the training, retention, and funding success of clinician-scientists in communication sciences and disorders. A three tiered mentoring network will be established to provide customized mentoring and educational support to approximately 30 promising clinician-scientists (prot¿g¿s) annually across three early career stages. In addition to providing enduring and comprehensive mentoring support, the proposed Mentoring Network will include the development of a multimedia resource library, the Clinical Research Education Library, to provide centralized access and broad dissemination of presentations, webinars, podcasts, and other multimedia resources that largely will be created by the distinguished researchers participating in the Network. A customized online community platform will be established to support collaborative learning and social networking. Network participants will be able to communicate and share multimedia resources (e.g., streaming video, images, audio files). Prot¿g¿s and mentors will convene at the beginning of their yearlong participation for a 3-day conference, the Clinical Research Conference, to become familiar with the tools, expectations, requirements, and goals of the Network, and to engage in an educational program that will include customized tracks for each of the three tiers. Mentor-prot¿g¿ communications will be supported throughout the mentoring relationship by commercially provided virtual conferencing technology that supports file sharing and shared desktop applications. Evaluation of prot¿g¿s' progress toward meeting their personalized set of goals will be obtained using surveys fielded four times during their yearlong participation (including a baseline measure obtained before they begin). Within the 3 years of funding, the mentoring network and the associated educational and communication initiatives will be designed, implemented, and evaluated (and improved where needed) to become an enduring program supported by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.