Career Development for Environmental Health Investigators

A. 具体目标 曼哈顿北部环境健康中心 (CEHNM) 职业发展计划将 为经过精心挑选的六名初级教员组成的小组提供财政支持、指导和培训， 主要是医师科学家，他们当前的研究兴趣补充了中心的主题和疾病 重点领域。我们寻求促进他们作为环境健康独立调查员的发展 科学，同时推进该中心和 NIEHS 的总体使命。 CEHNM 已建立 招募和培养年轻教师并培养他们独立的传统 调查人员。 CEHNM 对当前 P30 中心 RFAto 提供的机会感到高兴 每年分配 100,000 美元的资金，专门用于职业发展，重点是 关于开展临床和/或公共卫生研究项目的医师科学家的发展。 跨学科环境中的指导关系因跨学科环境而紧张，或者不存在于跨学科环境中。 日益复杂和竞争激烈的研究领域面临着紧迫和大规模的健康问题 挑战。知识和技能的成功转移需要仔细的结构和监控 设计的培训计划。我们提出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，为教学和日常整合提供框架 在跨学科环境中学习。从开始到结束，指导过程将遵循 各种关系，包括正式的、情景的和非正式的。

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.