Training in Education and Critical Research Skills

描述（由申请人提供）：这是我们申请在塔夫茨大学建立教育和关键研究技能培训（TEACRS）计划的重新提交，以响应机构研究和学术职业发展奖励计划。我们的项目是基于对大学教师的需求，这些教师准备好迎接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。我们将通过整合三个培训组成部分，为博士后学员提供他们在学术研究环境中取得成功所需的职业技能：严格的实验研究；师承教学经历；以及职业发展技能。通过与罗克斯伯里社区学院（Roxbury Community College）和马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校（University of Massachusetts, Boston）这两家服务当地少数族裔的机构合作，我们的学员还将获得对多样性问题的更多知识和敏感度，并为服务少数族裔的机构提供丰富的课程材料。我们的42名教师致力于卓越的研究，并拥有良好的培训记录。将为学员提供集中于多种生物医学问题的研究机会，特别强调基础生物学问题、癌症、神经科学和传染病。研究委员会和研究顾问将监督有关研究的进展和职业发展。教学部分利用讲习班、讨论小组和教程，使受训者准备在少数民族服务机构之一开发和讲授他们自己设计的课程。一系列的职业建设研讨会，以及提供指导和建设性反馈的检查点，使该计划更加完善。我们的目标是培养未来的学术科学领袖。大学教师必须发展独立的研究项目，这项活动需要创造性思维、高智力、出色的口头和书面交流能力以及相当的实验技能。在教师参与课堂教学、服务于各种委员会和指导学员的同时，这些活动必须持续下去。成功还需要人际关系、预算和时间管理方面的额外技能。TEACRS计划将为学员提供竞争学术职位所需的研究组合，以及博士后在进入学术生涯时应对挑战所需的技能。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a resubmission of our application to establish the Training in Education and Critical Research Skills (TEACRS) Program at Tufts University in response to the Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award Program. Our program is based on the need for university faculty that are prepared to meet the multiple challenges faced by young Assistant Professors pursuing their first independent position. We will provide our postdoctoral trainees with the career skills they will need to succeed in an academic research environment by integrating three training components: rigorous bench research; mentored teaching experience; and career development skills. By partnering with two local minority serving institutions, Roxbury Community College and the University of Massachusetts, Boston, our trainees will also acquire a greater knowledge and sensitivity to diversity issues and provide enriched course material to institutions serving a minority population. Our faculty of 42 is committed to research excellence and has a strong training record. Research opportunities focused on multiple biomedical problems with special emphasis on basic biological problems, cancer, neuroscience and infectious disease will be available to trainees. Research committees and research advisors will monitor progress and career development with respect to research. The teaching component uses workshops, discussion groups and tutorials to prepare trainees to develop and present a course of their own design at one of the minority serving institutions. A series of career building workshops, along with checkpoints that provide mentoring and constructive feedback round out the program. Our goal is to produce the academic scientific leaders of the future. University faculty must develop independent research programs, an activity that requires creative thought, high intellectual capacity, outstanding facility with oral and written communication and considerable experimental skill. These activities must be sustained while faculty participate in classroom teaching, serve on a variety of committees and mentor trainees. Success also requires additional skills in interpersonal relations, budgeting and time management. The TEACRS program will provide trainees with the research portfolio needed to compete for academic positions and the skill set that postdoctoral fellows need to meet the challenges they will face as they enter academic careers.