Mentoring Network for Clinician-Scientists in Communication Sciences & Disorders

描述（由申请人提供）：建议建立一个国家指导网络，通过加强沟通科学和疾病的临床科学家的培训，保留和资助成功，加速耳聋和其他沟通障碍的基础，转化和以患者为导向的研究。将建立一个三层指导网络，每年在三个早期职业阶段为大约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。除了提供持久和全面的指导支持外，拟议的指导网络将包括开发一个多媒体资源库，即临床研究教育库，以提供集中访问和广泛传播的演示文稿，网络研讨会，播客和其他多媒体资源，这些资源主要由参与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，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，流式视频、图像、音频文件）。普罗特g？在为期一年的参与开始时，将召集专家和导师参加为期3天的会议，即临床研究会议，以熟悉网络的工具、期望、要求和目标，并参与教育计划，其中包括为三个层次中的每一个层次定制的轨道。导师保护g？在整个指导关系中，将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支持通信。保护评估g？在他们为期一年的参与期间，将使用四次现场调查来获得他们实现其个性化目标的进展（包括在他们开始之前获得的基线测量）。在3年的资金，指导网络和相关的教育和沟通举措将被设计，实施和评估（并在需要时进行改进），成为美国语音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.