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，通过加强交流科学和障碍方面的临床科学家的培训、保留和资助，加速耳聋和其他交流障碍方面的基础、转化和面向患者的研究的产生。将建立一个三层指导网络，每年为大约30名有前途的临床科学家（prot - g -s）提供定制的指导和教育支持，跨越三个早期职业阶段。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示文稿、网络研讨会、播客和其他多媒体资源，这些资源将主要由参与该网络的杰出研究人员创建。将建立一个定制的在线社区平台，支持协作学习和社交网络。网络参与者将能够交流和共享多媒体资源（例如，流媒体视频、图像、音频文件）。专业人员和导师将在为期一年的临床研究会议开始时召开会议，以熟悉网络的工具、期望、要求和目标，并参与一个教育计划，其中包括为三个层次中的每个层次定制的轨道。通过商业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，师徒之间的通信将在整个师徒关系中得到支持。在为期一年的参与期间，将通过四次调查（包括在开始之前获得的基线测量）来评估学生在实现其个性化目标方面的进展。在三年的资助期内，指导网络和相关的教育和交流倡议将被设计、实施和评估（并在需要时进行改进），成为美国语言听力协会支持的一个持久的项目。

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.