IMPACT Program for Biomedical Researcher Career Development

 描述(由申请者提供)：目前的生物医学研究培训计划为与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，为学员提供多样化的经验和人脉，以支持当前对多样化职业选择和广泛适用的批判性思维技能的需求，这超出了大多数培训计划的范围。Impact计划旨在通过为学员提供一套补充经验和资源来填补这一空白，从而增强他们的长期职业机会。该计划的设计基于麻省理工学院先前项目积累的经验，并基于三个关键原则：*有意义的关系：培养一个环境和一套经验，通过这种环境和经验，学员可以与没有主管关系的导师发展有意义的关系*多样化的社区：将学员介绍给导师和其他其专业经验和专业领域不在其特定研究领域的学员*取得所有权：为学员提供机会，在他们的研究领域之外探索自己的未来 这种方式整合了他们的研究和职业兴趣，并为他们提供了独立开拓道路的战略。Impact计划将向波士顿地区的博士后和高级博士后实习生开放，并受到生物医学生态系统中许多专业人员通过有意义的指导经验回馈的未开发愿望的推动。通过积极和纵向的指导，受训者被要求想象他们的研究的未来，以探索从长期(甚至非常长期)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；以及积极管理他们的职业发展。该方案通过外展计划扩大其影响，使教员在全国范围内参与，并通过积极吸引妇女和代表性不足的少数族裔参与。完成培训后，学员将发展并加深对自己优势的了解，亲身经历重要的个人和职业挑战，否则可能需要数年时间才能遇到这些挑战，并对自己的未来做出战略决策拥有更大的信心。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提供服务。

 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.