Career Development for Environmental Health Investigators

A.具体目标 北方曼哈顿的环境卫生中心（CEHNM）职业发展计划将 提供财政支持，指导和培训的高度选择性的一组六名初级教员， 主要是医生科学家，他们目前的研究兴趣补充了中心的主题和疾病 重点领域。我们寻求促进他们的发展，作为独立的调查员在环境健康 科学，同时促进中心和NIEHS的整体使命。CEHNM已建立 招募和培养年轻教师并培养他们独立的传统 investigators. CEHNM对当前P30中心RFATO提供的机会感到高兴 每年分配10万美元的资金，专门用于职业发展，重点是 关于将进行临床和/或公共卫生研究计划的医生科学家的发展。 在跨学科环境中的指导关系是紧张的，或不发生在一个 日益复杂和竞争激烈的研究竞技场面临着紧迫和大规模的健康 挑战知识和技能的成功转让需要以一种审慎的方式进行结构和监测， 设计培训方案。我们建议的职业发展计划的一个关键要素是，它是结构化的， 围绕长期，有效的指导，提供了一个框架，为日常教学和 在跨学科的环境中学习。从开始到结束，指导过程将遵循以下原则： 各种正式的、情景的和非正式的关系。

A. Specific Aims The Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan's (CEHNM) Career Development Program will provide financial support, mentoring and training for a highly selective group of six junior faculty members, primarily physician-scientists, whose current research interests complement the Center's themes and disease focus areas. We seek to foster their development as independent investigators in environmental health science, while furthering the overall mission of the Center and the NIEHS. The CEHNM has an established tradition of recruiting and developing young faculty members and nurturing them to become independent investigators. The CEHNM is delighted with the opportunity afforded by the current P30 Center RFAto apportion $100,000/year of funding that is specifically targeted toward career development, with an emphasis on the development of physician-scientists who will conduct clinical and/or public health research programs. Mentoring relationships in an interdisciplinary environment are strained by or do not take place within an increasingly complex and competitive research arena confronted with pressing and large-scale health challenges. The successful transfer of knowledge and skills requires structure and monitoring in a carefully designed training program. A key element of our proposed Career Development Program is that it is structured around long-term, effective mentoring that provides a framework for the day-to-day integration of teaching and learning in an interdisciplinary environment. From beginning to end, the mentoring process will be guided by variety of relationships that will be formal, situational and informal.