Mentoring for Success: Developing Fundamental Skills for Biomedical Research

 描述（由申请人提供）：西北大学IMSD（NU IMSD）的使命是通过提供精心设计的专业发展序列，增强早期博士培训，为生物医学研究队伍的多样化做出贡献。该计划同样注重培养那些以高水平准备进入博士学位的学生的才能，以及那些来自低资源背景但表现出预测成功的关键特征的学生。这种更新建立在8年的渐进式成功和程序设计的基础上，该程序设计非常关注博士学位前两年发生的快速过渡和增长。NU IMSD在其多个社会科学理论和模型的基础上是真正独特的，这些理论和模型解释了代表性不足的少数民族所面临的额外挑战。这些社会科学理论及其在程序设计中的应用是从与NU IMSD一起进行的年轻科学家的职业发展和决策的大型实证和应用研究中产生的。这些研究和我们正在进行的项目评估工作导致了一系列活动的设计，这些活动有助于：1。快速和成功地过渡到博士培训;2。理解和成功的实验室，包括有形和无形的期望; 3。选择一个研究导师和小组，符合科学，指导和社会偏好; 4。快速发展的口头沟通能力，因为他们的能力的外部和内部的看法强有力的贡献; 5。理解有效指导关系的关键原则，使学生能够指导自己的指导（指导），而不是被动地依赖于导师的行动; 6。通过一个独特的，非常成功的NIH风格的建议书写作到易于理解和建模的修辞模式解构高水平的科学写作技能的发展; 7。在培训早期积极探索职业选择，以最大限度地减少整个博士培训过程中有意识或无意识的目的矛盾或困惑。NU IMSD还为所有开始生物医学博士生开放的更大计划提供了基础，称为生物科学（CLIMB）计划的协作学习和综合指导。通过成为CLIMB的一部分，IMSD学生不会受到与少数民族项目相关的刻板印象的风险，并享有更大的跨学科青年科学家群体，以便在指导专业发展的背景下了解。位于CLIMB内也使IMSD在机构多样性工作中发挥重要作用，补充生命科学教师，NU研究生院及其院长的可见和充满活力的多样性举措。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of the Northwestern University IMSD (NU IMSD) is to contribute to the diversification of the biomedical research workforce by providing a carefully designed professional development sequence that enhances early PhD training. The program has an equal focus on developing the talents of students who enter the PhD with high levels of preparation, and those who come from lower-resourced backgrounds but who display key characteristics that predict success. This renewal builds upon 8 years of progressive success and a program design that pays careful attention to the rapid transitions and growth that takes place during the first 2 years of the PhD. The NU IMSD is truly unique in its foundation on multiple social science theories and models that explain the extra challenges faced by underrepresented minority individuals. These social science theories and their application to program design have arisen from large empirical and applied research studies of career progression and decision-making of young scientists that are being conducted alongside the NU IMSD. Those studies and our ongoing program evaluation efforts have led to the design of a sequence of activities that facilitate: 1. Rapid and successful transitions into PhD training;2. Understanding and succeeding in laboratories that includes both visible and invisible expectations; 3. Choosing a research mentor and group that align with scientific, mentoring and social preferences; 4. Rapid development of oral communication skills given their strong contributions to external and internal perceptions of competence; 5. Understanding of key principles of effective mentoring relationships, enabling students to guide their own mentoring (mentoring up) rather than passively depend on actions of mentors; 6. Development of high level scientific writing skills through a unique, highly successful deconstruction of NIH-style proposal writing into easily understood and modeled rhetorical patterns; 7. Active exploration of career options early in training to minimize conscious or unconscious ambivalence of purpose or confusion throughout the PhD training. The NU IMSD also provides the foundation for a larger program open to all beginning biomedical PhD students, called the Collaborative Learning and Integrated Mentoring in the Biosciences (CLIMB) program. By being part of CLIMB, IMSD students are not subject to risks of stereotyping associated with minority-only programs, and enjoy a much larger interdisciplinary cohort of young scientists to get to know within the context of guided professional development. Being situated within CLIMB also enables the IMSD to play a major role in institutional diversity efforts, complementing the visible and energetic diversity initiatives of the life science faculty, the NU Graduate School and its Dean.