Training in Education and Critical Research Skills

描述(由申请者提供)：教育和关键研究技能培训(TEACRS)计划服务于国家对接受过生物医学研究培训的大学和学院教职员工的需求，他们做好了最佳准备，以应对年轻助理教授追求他们的第一个独立职位所面临的多重挑战，并了解科学工作队伍中多样性的价值。这些人必须做好充分准备，以满足建立和管理一个富有成效的研究实验室、获得赠款资金、开发和提供令人兴奋和有效的课程以及参与高等教育机构充满活力的生活的需求。他们需要能够通过他们提供的教学和研究机会来激励下一代科学家。我们的目标是为有才华和合格的博士后学者提供他们在学术研究环境中取得成功所需的研究组合和职业技能，其中包括对未来生物医学研究人员的培训和指导。为了实现这一目标，我们与马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校、派恩庄园学院和邦克山社区学院这三所为少数族裔服务的当地机构建立了合作伙伴关系。塔夫茨将为这些学者提供严格的长椅研究培训，帮助他们制定独立的研究计划，并提供指导和活动，培养他们在教学、书面和口头交流、拨款撰写、研究道德行为、实验室管理和指导方面的职业技能。通过与我们的合作伙伴合作，我们将为这些学员提供直接的课堂教学体验，在有指导的环境下与不同的学生群体一起学习。TEACRS还将加强我们合作机构的能力，提供令人兴奋的科学课程，并增加这些机构的教职员工和学生接触生物医学研究的机会。我们计划逐步扩大至每年录取四名学员，他们将从这笔补助金中获得75%的支持，并从他们的研究导师那里获得25%的支持，最长可达四年。 公共卫生相关性：塔夫茨大学的教育和关键研究技能培训计划专门解决了对有才华的生物医学科学家的需求，他们将在学术环境中作为研究人员、教师和导师出类拔萃，并需要加强生物医学劳动力的多样性。为了实现这一目标，我们将为博士后实习生提供严格的生物医学研究实践培训，并通过与致力于服务于代表性不足的学生的本地本科院校合作，让他们做好准备，以应对教学和指导不同学生群体的挑战。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Training in Education and Critical Research Skills (TEACRS) Program serves the national need for university and college faculty trained in biomedical research who are optimally prepared to meet the multiple challenges faced by young Assistant Professors pursuing their first independent position and who understand the value of diversity in the scientific workforce. These individuals must to be fully prepared to meet the demands of setting up and managing a productive research lab, obtaining grant funding, developing and delivering exciting and effective courses and participating in the vibrant life of a institution of higher learning. They need to be able to inspire the next generations of scientists through the teaching and research opportunities they offer. Our goal is to provide talented and qualified postdoctoral scholars with the research portfolio and career skills they will need to succeed in an academic research environment that includes training and mentoring of future biomedical researchers. To achieve this goal, we have partnered with three local minority-serving institutions, the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Pine Manor College and Bunker Hill Community College. Tufts will provide these scholars with rigorous bench research training leading to the development of an independent research program as evidenced by peer-reviewed publications and also provide instruction and activities that build career skills in teaching, written and oral communication, grant writing, ethical conduct of research, laboratory management and mentoring. By working with our partners, we will offer these trainees direct, in-classroom teaching experience with a diverse student body in a mentored setting. TEACRS will also enhance the capacity of our partner institutions to deliver exciting science curriculum and increase accessibility of faculty and students at these institutions to biomedical research. We plan to gradually expand to admitting four trainees each year who will receive receiving 75% support from this grant and 25% support from their research mentor for a maximum of four years. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Training in Education and Critical Research Skills Program at Tufts specifically addresses the need for talented biomedical scientists who will excel as researchers, teachers, and mentors in an academic setting and the need to enhance the diversity of the biomedical workforce. To accomplish this goal, we will provide postdoctoral trainees with rigorous hands-on training in biomedical research, and prepare them to handle the challenges of teaching and mentoring a diverse student body by partnering with local undergraduate institutions committed to serving under-represented students.