Academic Career Skills for Junior Faculty Researchers

项目总结 背景：响应NCI Awardee技能发展联盟(NASDC)的RFA-CA-19-010， 我们建议为NCI资助的癌症控制和研究领域的初级教员举办为期三天的研究职业技能研讨会。 人口科学。我们已经成功地开发并主办了由NCI资助的培训早期职业生涯的研讨会 调查人员的研究技能(R25 CA181000)。我们提议的NASDC研讨会主要针对两个技能集 在RFA中列出：1)行政、管理和指导技能，2)领导和协作技能。 然而，根据我们的形成工作，我们认识到还需要包括应对的技能培训。 研究生涯中的社会和情感挑战(处理不可避免的拒绝、平衡 责任，以及管理资金的不确定性)。我们相信，提高所有这些技能将有助于 NASDC的目标是帮助初级教师“在他们的研究生涯中保持长期的生产力， 从而最大限度地提高NCI投资的结果。方法和背景：拟议的讲习班 结合了三种基于证据的方法：1)“指导指导”，即直接观察指导 来自我们研讨会校友计划的专家指导和职业发展讲座带来的机会 关于支持肿瘤学的研究方法(R25 CA181000)；2)来自DANA的教学和练习- 费伯癌症研究所为早期职业教师举办的领导力训练营；以及3)从 接受与承诺疗法(ACT)。ACT可能特别适合于管理社会和 考虑到研究职业的接受和前进的框架，研究职业面临的情感挑战 个人价值观的背景。增加参与者之间的潜在合作，并确保提供 由工作坊教师提供适当的指导专业知识，我们将把参与者限制在癌症控制和 人口科学研究人员(行为研究；流行病学和基因组学；卫生服务研究； 实施科学；监督；和生存)。达纳-法伯癌症研究所(DFCI)将主办这次会议 与马萨诸塞州综合医院(MGH)合作在波士顿举办为期三天的研讨会，另一家Dana- 法伯/哈佛癌症中心(DFHCC)机构。在研讨会的每一天，参与者都会参加教学 会议和小组会议，由R01资助的教练提供三种不同的指导体验 癌症控制和人口科学的研究人员。我们将与NASDC协调中心合作 在三年内推广、制作和评估了五个研讨会。教职员工：我们已经组建了一个 癌症控制和人口科学方面的杰出专家团队(已建立独立研究人员， 授予审稿人和期刊编辑)来计划和担任研讨会教员。作为高生产率的领导者 以及DFCI和MGH在癌症控制和人口科学方面的知名项目，Pis(Dr.Pirl 和Temel)拥有组织这次研讨会所需的经验和领导技能。

PROJECT SUMMARY Background: Responding to RFA-CA-19-010 for the NCI Awardee Skills Development Consortium (NASDC), we propose a three-day workshop on research career skills for NCI-funded junior faculty in cancer control and populations sciences. We have successfully developed and hosted NCI-funded workshops to train early career investigators in research skills (R25 CA181000). Our proposed NASDC workshop mainly targets two skills sets listed in the RFA: 1) administrative, managerial, and mentoring skills and 2) leadership and collaboration skills. However, based on our formative work, we recognized the need to also include training in skills for coping with the social and emotional challenges of a research career (handling inevitable rejection, balancing responsibilities, and managing uncertainty of funding). We believe that enhancing all these skills will contribute to the NASDC goal of helping junior faculty to “maintain long-term productivity in their research careers, thereby maximizing outcomes from NCI investments.” Approach and setting: The proposed workshop combines three evidence-based approaches: 1) “mentored mentoring,” directly observed mentoring opportunities with expert coaching, and career-development lectures from the alumni program of our Workshop on Research Methods in Supportive Oncology (R25 CA181000); 2) didactics and exercises from the Dana- Faber Cancer Institute's Leadership Bootcamp for early career faculty; and 3) coping skills drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT may be particularly well-suited to manage the social and emotional challenges of a research career given its framework of acceptance and moving forward in the context of personal values. To increase potential collaborations among participants and ensure the provision of appropriate mentoring expertise by workshop faculty, we will limit participants to cancer control and populations sciences researchers (behavioral research; epidemiology and genomics; health delivery research; implementation science; surveillance; and survivorship). The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) will host this three-day workshop in Boston in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), another Dana- Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DFHCC) institution. Each day of the workshop, participants attend didactic sessions and meet in small groups for three different mentoring experiences, with coaching from R01-funded investigators in cancer control and population sciences. We will work with the NASDC Coordinator Center on the promotion, production, and evaluation of five workshops over three years. Faculty: We have assembled an outstanding team of experts in cancer control and population sciences (established independent researchers, grant reviewers, and journal editors) to plan and serve as workshop faculty. As leaders of highly-productive and well-known programs within cancer control and population sciences at DFCI and MGH, the PIs (Drs. Pirl and Temel) possess the requisite experience and leadership skills to organize this workshop.