IMPACT Program for Biomedical Researcher Career Development

 描述（由申请人提供）：目前的生物医学研究培训计划为研究相关的职业提供了基础，重点是研究经验和深厚的领域知识。但是，它超出了大多数培训计划的范围，为学员提供各种各样的经验和联系，以支持当前对职业选择多样性和广泛适用的批判性思维技能的需求。IMPACT计划旨在填补这一空白，为学员提供一系列补充经验和资源，以增强他们的长期职业机会。该计划的设计是基于在麻省理工学院的先行计划积累的经验，并依赖于三个关键原则：* 有意义的关系：培养一个环境和一套经验，通过它，学员可以发展有意义的关系与导师谁没有监督关系 * 多元化的社区：将学员介绍给其专业经验和专业领域超出其特定研究领域的导师和其他学员 * 为学员提供机会，让他们在一个 IMPACT计划将向波士顿地区的博士后和高级博士前学员开放，并通过生物医学生态系统中许多专业人士的未开发愿望，通过有意义的指导经验回馈社会。通过他们积极和纵向的指导，学员们面临的挑战是想象他们的研究的未来，探索从长远来看（甚至很长时间），它将如何导致现实世界的影响;发展他们与不同受众沟通的能力;探索和理解各种职业道路;发展他们的网络;并积极管理他们的职业发展。该方案通过外联方案扩大其影响，使全国范围内的教师参与，并积极吸引妇女和代表性不足的少数民族。完成该计划后，学员将发展并加深对自己优势的理解，获得重要的个人和专业挑战的第一手经验，否则可能需要数年时间才能遇到，并有更大的信心对他们的未来做出战略决策。他们将扩大其专业网络的规模和范围，这将在未来几十年为他们服务。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Current biomedical research training programs provide a foundation for research-related careers, with emphasis on research experience and deep domain knowledge. But, it is outside the scope of most training programs to afford trainees a great diversity of experiences and connections needed to support current demands for a diversity of career options and broadly applicable critical thinking skills. The IMPACT Program aims to fill that gap by providing trainees with a set of complementary experiences and resources that enhance their long-term career opportunities. The program design is based on the accumulated experience of antecedent programs at MIT and rests on three key principles: * Meaningful relationships: Fostering an environment and set of experiences through which trainees can develop meaningful relationships with mentors who have no supervisory relationship * Diverse community: Introducing trainees to mentors and other trainees whose professional experience and domain of expertise lies outside the sphere of their particular research area * Taking ownership: Providing opportunities for trainees to explore their future in a way that integrates their research and career interests, and provides them with strategies to independently forge their path. The IMPACT program will be open to postdoctoral and advanced predoctoral trainees in the Boston area and is enabled by the untapped desire on the part of many professionals in the biomedical ecosystem to give back through meaningful mentoring experiences. Through their active and longitudinal mentorship, trainees are challenged to imagine the future of their research to explore how in the long run (even very long run) it will lead to real-world impact; to develop their ability to communicate to diverse audiences; to explore and understand a variety of career paths; to develop their network; and to actively manage their career development. The program is augmented through outreach programming to broaden its effect by bringing faculty, nationwide, to participate and by actively engaging women and under-represented minorities. Upon completing the program, trainees will have developed and have a deepened understanding of their strengths, first-hand experiences with important personal and professional challenges that otherwise may take years to encounter, and greater confidence to make strategic decisions about their future. They will have expanded the size and scope of their professional network, which will serve them in decades to come.