CTSA K12 Program at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

摘要 自2008年以来，圣安东尼奥CTSA KL2的德克萨斯大学健康科学中心指导了职业生涯 发展计划在培训和指导初级教员方面有着堪称典范的记录。我们的节目 因其学者的多样性而在全国范围内得到认可，55%的女性和33%的代表不足 人。它还被认为成立并共同领导了一个全国KL2 PI/董事联盟集团，该集团 定期开会建立网络，分享最佳实践，并开发创新计划，例如虚拟CTSA 访问学者计划，在该计划中，CTSA联盟的KL2学者可以访问其他CTSA中心 与各自领域的专家建立网络，并在全国范围内播放CTSA Grand Runds。我们的KL2计划 已经为我们的学者提供了2年的支持，其中要求的第三年的支持由学者的 内政部。到目前为止，我们的KL2计划，像CTSA联盟中的其他计划一样，一直专注于翻译 研究--对特定靶点或疾病的翻译过程中的特定步骤进行的努力。 然而，从历史上看，翻译的过程一直是出了名的慢。对于新的K12计划，我们有 有机会增加对翻译科学的关注，调查领域的重点是了解 翻译过程每一步背后的科学和操作原则，以便催化 翻译。因此，我们将根据我们的能力在翻译科学方面纳入新的培训 发表给翻译研究人员与翻译科学家；多样性、公平性、包容性和可获得性； 传播和实施；以及领导力。该课程将与加州大学共同开发。 犹他州CTSA，面向来自CTSA中心的K12学者、T32实习生和 翻译科学工作人员；一旦开发，课程将与CTSA联盟共享。我们 将继续我们严格和包容的学者遴选程序。在他们的研究项目中，每个K12学者 将纳入翻译科学的一个组成部分。学者将由一个导师团队进行指导，其中包括 临床医生；主要导师将接受循证指导培训，重点是指导 代表不足的学者。随着我们与德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校、圣安东尼奥分校和 得克萨斯生物医学研究所，我们将增加CTSA资助的学者人数，从目前的4人 一次增加到5人，外加3名机构资助的学者。我们将通过以下方式使K12的领导层多样化 增加一名来自德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的女性多元PI，并通过指导一名代表不足的前学者成为一名 K12项目负责人。继续成功的虚拟CTSA访问学者计划一次支持由 国家CTSA协调中心日落，我们在哈佛大学、北方大学和K12/KL2项目 卡罗莱纳和斯坦福将负责该项目的管理，创造创新功能，并评估 课程和学者经验。总而言之，这些K12计划功能有望产生将 成为翻译研究和翻译科学的领导者。

ABSTRACT Since 2008, the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio’s CTSA KL2 Mentored Career Development Program has had an exemplary track record of training and mentoring junior faculty. Our program has been recognized nationally for the diversity of its Scholars, with 55% women and 33% under-represented persons. It is also recognized for forming and co-leading a national KL2 PI/Directors Consortium Group, which meets regularly to network, share best practices, and develop innovative programs, such as the Virtual CTSA Visiting Scholars Program, in which KL2 Scholars throughout the CTSA Consortium can visit other CTSA hubs to network with experts in their field and to deliver a nationally streamed CTSA Grand Rounds. Our KL2 program has provided 2 years of support for our Scholars, with a required third year of support funded by the Scholar’s home department. To date, our KL2 program, like others in the CTSA Consortium, has focused on translational research – the endeavor to traverse a particular step of the translational process for a particular target or disease. Yet, historically, the process of translation has been notoriously slow. For the new K12 program, we have the opportunity to add a focus on translational science, the field of investigation focused on understanding the scientific and operational principles underlying each step of the translational process in order to catalyze translation. As such, we will incorporate new training in translational science based on competencies we published for a translational researcher vs. a translational scientist; diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility; dissemination and implementation; and leadership. The curriculum will be co-developed with the University of Utah CTSA and targeted to K12 Scholars from both CTSA hubs, T32 Trainees, and other members of the translational science workforce; once developed, the curriculum will be shared with the CTSA Consortium. We will continue our rigorous and inclusive Scholar selection process. For their research projects, each K12 Scholar will incorporate a component of translational science. Scholars will be mentored by a team of mentors, including a clinician; the primary mentors will undergo evidence-based mentor training, with an emphasis on mentoring under-represented Scholars. With the formalization of our partnerships with UT Austin, UT San Antonio, and Texas Biomedical Research Institute, we will increase the number of CTSA-funded Scholars from the current 4 at a time to 5 at a time, plus 3 institutionally funded Scholars. We will diversify the leadership of the K12 by adding a female multi-PI from UT Austin and by mentoring an under-represented former Scholar to become a K12 program leader. To continue the highly successful Virtual CTSA Visiting Scholar Program once support by the national CTSA coordinating center sunsets, we, with K12/KL2 programs at Harvard, the University of North Carolina, and Stanford, will assume management of the program, create innovative features, and evaluate program and Scholar experiences. Together, these K12 program features promise to yield investigators who will become leaders in translational research and the science of translation.