Innovative Biomedical Graduate Training For Workforce Readiness

描述(申请人提供)：研究生和博士后实习生是推动科技进步的主力军。他们在研究、解决问题和快速适应不断变化的需求和机会方面接受了广泛的培训，这使他们成为学术界内外的有价值的员工。虽然据估计，只有大约三分之一的博士毕业生能够在学术界找到工作，但到目前为止，许多研究生项目还没有将工业、政府和非营利性雇主的需求纳入他们的培训中，因此许多博士毕业生和博士后并没有真正准备好加入非学术劳动力大军。通过这项建议，我们的目标是启动生物医学研究生教育的范式转变，目标是改变关于毕业后设计成功职业的基本假设和看法。为此，我们将制定最佳实践，将学术界传统的板凳生物医学博士项目转变为跨学科和多才多艺的教育机会，为学生和博士后培养适应当今社会、经济和公共卫生需求和挑战的机会。我们将通过在各种生物医学研究生学习课程中为学生和导师增加与科学相关但非科学的信息来实现这一变化。这一新设计的最终目标是增强研究生和导师对生物医学工作的重要性和可获得性的认识，并提高接受这种培训的研究生和博士后的就业能力。我们的方法包括四个主要目标，即准备、教育、培养和就业。这种PECA模式要求研究生和博士后在开始学习/就业时获得1)研究生学习和专业技能(GPS)准备，2)实习生和导师从事学术基础研究以外的科学相关主题的教育，3)学生和博士后参加领导力研讨会，并关心培养和加强他们在学生-校友联盟(STUDAL)中的知识和关系，以实现互利和终身支持，以及4)受训人员在生物医学就业能力研讨会的额外培训后寻找工作，包括评估求职方案和生物科学咨询委员会成员在专业职业顾问的协助下进行的模拟面试。我们相信，这种有组织的跨学科生物医学研究生教育方法将更好地服务于当今社会、经济和公共卫生的需求和挑战。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Graduate students and postdoctoral trainees are the workhorses that drive the advancements in science and technology. They are extensively trained in research, problem solving, and rapid adaptation to changing needs and opportunities, which makes them valuable employees inside and outside academia. While it is estimated that only about one third of PhD graduates will succeed in obtaining a job in academia, so far many graduate programs have not yet incorporated the needs of industrial, governmental and non-profit employers in their training, and therefore many PhD graduates and postdocs are not truly prepared to join a non-academic workforce. With this proposal, we aim to initiate a paradigm shift in biomedical graduate education with the goal of changing the basic assumptions and perceptions regarding the design of a successful career after graduation. To this end, we will develop Best Practices for the conversion of traditional bench focused biomedical PhD programs in academia into interdisciplinary and versatile educational opportunities that train students and postdocs for the needs and challenges of today's society, economy and public health. We will implement this change by institutionalizing the addition of science related but non-scientific information for students and mentors in various biomedical graduate study curricula. The ultimate goal of this new design is an enhanced knowledge for graduate students and mentors of the importance and availability of biomedical jobs away from the bench, and an increased employability of graduate students and postdocs who receive this training. Our approach includes four major aims, i.e. PREPARATION, EDUCATION, CULTIVATION and EMPLOYMENT. This PECE model requires graduate students and postdocs to obtain 1) PREPARATION in graduate studies and professional skills (GPS) at the beginning of their studies/employment, 2) for trainees and as well as the mentors to engage in EDUCATION on science related subject matters beyond academic bench research, 3) for students and postdocs to enroll in a leadership workshop and to care for the CULTIVATION and enhancement of their knowledge and relationships in a Student-Alumni Alliance (STUDAL) for mutual benefit and life-long support, and 4) for trainees to seek EMPLOYMENT after additional training in a biomedical employability workshop, including the evaluation of a job application package and a mock interview by members of the Bioscience Advisory Board with the assistance of a professional career counselor. We are confident that such a structured interdisciplinary approach in biomedical graduate education will better serve the needs and challenges of today's society, economy and public health.