UIC K12 Independent Clinical Vision Scientist Development Program

描述（由申请人提供）：这是来自伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校（UIC）的一份提案，旨在建立UIC-NEI K12/独立临床医生视觉科学家（ICVS）发展计划。该计划采用需求评估方法，以确定实现独立性的障碍，这些障碍是临床医生所面临的，他们已经证明了成为独立临床医生科学家所需的技能，并设计了K12培训计划来满足这些需求。该计划认识到，在优秀导师的指导下沉浸在研究中是研究人员向独立过渡的关键因素。因此，该部门提出了K-12课程，用于指导那些已经证明愿意沉浸在研究项目中的学者。UIC-NEI K12/独立临床视觉科学家（ICVS）发展计划旨在提供一个学术丰富和支持性的环境，使合格的早期临床视觉科学家能够参与结构化和指导性的学习体验，促进职业发展，并使学员成为独立的科学家。该方案有两个目标：目标一是建立公立大学-公共卫生机构合作伙伴关系，培养独立的临床视力科学家（ICVS）;目标二是为UIC-NEI K12/ICVS学者提供科学发展，真实的导师和专业发展，并确保他们向独立过渡。这些目标的实现将使UIC-NEI K12/ICVS发展计划的学者能够过渡到独立，成为视觉健康研究的国家领导者，并成为新一代视觉健康研究人员的教育者，导师和榜样。 公共卫生相关性：伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校（UIC）眼科和视觉科学系提议建立UIC-NEI K12/ICVS开发计划。该计划旨在提供一个学术丰富和支持性的环境，为早期临床视觉科学家提供指导性的学习经验，以促进他们的职业发展并成为独立的科学家。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal from at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to establish the UIC-NEI K12/Independent Clinician Vision Scientist (ICVS) Development Program. The proposed program takes a needs-assessment approach to identify the barriers to achieving independence that confronts clinicians who have demonstrated the skills needed to become independent clinician scientists and designs a K12 training program to address those needs. The program recognizes that immersion in research under the guidance of excellent mentors is a key ingredient for investigator transition to independence. Therefore, the Department proposes the K-12 curriculum for mentoring scholars who have demonstrated readiness to be immersed in a research project. UIC-NEI K12/Independent Clinician Vision Scientist (ICVS) Development Program aims to provide an academically-rich and supportive environment to enable qualified early-stage clinician vision scientists to engage in a structured and mentored learning experience that will facilitate career advancement and enable trainees to become independent scientists. The program has two goals: Goal I is to establish a public university-public health agency partnership to train independent clinician vision scientists (ICVS); Goal II is to provide scientific development, authentic mentorship and professional development of the UIC-NEI K12/ICVS scholars and ensure their transition to independence. Achievement of these goals will enable UIC-NEI K12/ICVS Development Program scholars to transition to independence become national leaders in vision health research, and to become the educators, mentors, and role models for a new generation of vision health researchers. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) proposes to establish the UIC-NEI K12/ICVS Development Program. The program aims to provide an academically-rich and supportive environment that will give early -stage clinician vision scientists a mentored learning experience that will facilitate their career advancement and to become independent scientists.