Innovative Biomedical Graduate Training For Workforce Readiness

描述（由申请人提供）：研究生和博士后培训生是推动科学和技术进步的主力军。他们在研究，解决问题和快速适应不断变化的需求和机会方面接受了广泛的培训，这使他们成为学术界内外的宝贵员工。虽然据估计，只有大约三分之一的博士毕业生将成功地在学术界找到工作，但到目前为止，许多研究生课程尚未将工业，政府和非营利雇主的需求纳入其培训中，因此许多博士毕业生和博士后并没有真正准备好加入非学术劳动力。有了这个建议，我们的目标是在生物医学研究生教育中启动一个范式转变，改变毕业后成功职业生涯设计的基本假设和看法。为此，我们将制定最佳实践，将学术界传统的以生物医学博士课程为重点的生物医学博士课程转化为跨学科和多功能的教育机会，培养学生和博士后，以应对当今社会，经济和公共卫生的需求和挑战。我们将通过制度化的科学相关的，但非科学的信息，为学生和导师在各种生物医学研究生学习课程，增加实施这一变化。这种新设计的最终目标是提高研究生和导师对远离板凳的生物医学工作的重要性和可用性的认识，并提高接受这种培训的研究生和博士后的就业能力。我们的方法包括四个主要目标，即准备，教育，培养和就业。这种PECE模式要求研究生和博士后获得1）在研究生学习和专业技能（GPS）的准备在他们的研究/就业开始，2）为学员和以及导师从事教育科学相关的主题超出学术板凳研究，3）学生和博士后参加领导力研讨会，并在学生-校友联盟（MATERAL）中培养和增强他们的知识和关系互惠互利和终身支持，以及4）学员在生物医学就业能力讲习班接受额外培训后寻求就业，包括评估工作申请包和生物科学咨询委员会成员在专业职业顾问的协助下进行模拟面试。我们相信，生物医学研究生教育的这种结构化的跨学科方法将更好地满足当今社会，经济和公共卫生的需求和挑战。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Graduate students and postdoctoral trainees are the workhorses that drive the advancements in science and technology. They are extensively trained in research, problem solving, and rapid adaptation to changing needs and opportunities, which makes them valuable employees inside and outside academia. While it is estimated that only about one third of PhD graduates will succeed in obtaining a job in academia, so far many graduate programs have not yet incorporated the needs of industrial, governmental and non-profit employers in their training, and therefore many PhD graduates and postdocs are not truly prepared to join a non-academic workforce. With this proposal, we aim to initiate a paradigm shift in biomedical graduate education with the goal of changing the basic assumptions and perceptions regarding the design of a successful career after graduation. To this end, we will develop Best Practices for the conversion of traditional bench focused biomedical PhD programs in academia into interdisciplinary and versatile educational opportunities that train students and postdocs for the needs and challenges of today's society, economy and public health. We will implement this change by institutionalizing the addition of science related but non-scientific information for students and mentors in various biomedical graduate study curricula. The ultimate goal of this new design is an enhanced knowledge for graduate students and mentors of the importance and availability of biomedical jobs away from the bench, and an increased employability of graduate students and postdocs who receive this training. Our approach includes four major aims, i.e. PREPARATION, EDUCATION, CULTIVATION and EMPLOYMENT. This PECE model requires graduate students and postdocs to obtain 1) PREPARATION in graduate studies and professional skills (GPS) at the beginning of their studies/employment, 2) for trainees and as well as the mentors to engage in EDUCATION on science related subject matters beyond academic bench research, 3) for students and postdocs to enroll in a leadership workshop and to care for the CULTIVATION and enhancement of their knowledge and relationships in a Student-Alumni Alliance (STUDAL) for mutual benefit and life-long support, and 4) for trainees to seek EMPLOYMENT after additional training in a biomedical employability workshop, including the evaluation of a job application package and a mock interview by members of the Bioscience Advisory Board with the assistance of a professional career counselor. We are confident that such a structured interdisciplinary approach in biomedical graduate education will better serve the needs and challenges of today's society, economy and public health.