The Northeast Regional Scientific Training & Program Development Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：本5年会议计划将建立东北地区科学培训和计划发展会议。这次区域会议将用于催化科学培训计划开发和实践的变革和长期变化，这些变化开始于早期本科阶段，直到高级研究生阶段。它将利用和建立在最近成立的培训，劳动力发展和多样性（TWD）司在NIGMS，汇集了前更多的司和目前的T32培训计划。这些计划历来相互独立，通过这次会议，我们将把它们联合起来，以促进PD与学员之间更大的互动和关系建设。本次会议将包括来自美国东北部5个不同学术机构的本科RISE和IMSD项目、PREP项目、研究生IMSD和T32项目以及IRACDA的项目主管（PD）和学员。 会议代表了过程和实践的重要垂直整合。它将支持a）比在国家场馆发生的更多的计划性交叉对话，以及B）将支持开发并随后向国家TWD社区及其他地区传播由此产生的最佳实践。这些新的机构间关系将进一步有助于防止形成“培训真空”，从而孤立各个方案。会议将举办学员研究报告，并建立跨计划和跨机构的指导关系，帮助学员做出更明智的职业选择。对于教师来说，会议将促进和支持公开讨论和交流最佳培训实践，并确定学员从一个培训阶段过渡到另一个培训阶段所面临的挑战。与会人数为60 - 70人，会议将提供一个亲密的务虚会，培养与会者之间丰富的互动。具体目标是：1）建立一个区域机构间务虚会和网络场所，以优化i）项目主任，ii）项目主任和受训人员以及iii）处于不同职业阶段的受训人员之间的互动，这将导致更强大和更纵向的网络和协作联系，以支持成功的培训轨迹。这些互动将支持和通知教师培训的做法，从本科水平，通过研究生水平，最终将转化为 对参与机构产生更广泛的机构影响。2）建立一个区域论坛，以开发和每年评估最佳培训实践，并与国家TWD社区和更大的科学界分享，并建立一种评估模式，其持久的好处将是a）确保受训者从一个职业培训阶段和环境无缝过渡到另一个，B）补充训练有素的科学家和学者的人才库，c）满足我们国家对维持具有全球竞争力的科学劳动力的需求; c）支持TWD的多样性努力和使命。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This 5-year conference plan will establish the Northeast Regional Scientific Training & Program Development Conference. This regional conference will be used to catalyze transformative and long-term changes in scientific training program development and practices that begin at the early undergraduate level through to the advanced graduate level. It will capitalize and build on the recent formation of the Training, Workforce Development and Diversity (TWD) Division in NIGMS that has brought together the former MORE Division and current T32 training programs. These programs have historically worked independently of each other and through this conference we will unite them in order to foster greater interactions and relationship-building between PDs & trainees. This conference will include program directors (PDs) and trainees of undergraduate RISE and IMSD programs, of PREP programs, of graduate IMSD and T32 programs and IRACDA from 5- different academic institutions in the northeast U.S. As each of these programs represents a program that operates at a different point on the same training scale, their collective involvement in this conference represents a critical vertical integration of process and practice. It will support a) increased programmatic cross-talk than occurs at national venues and b) will support the development and subsequent dissemination of resulting best practices to the national TWD community and beyond. These new inter-institutional relationships will further help to prevent formation of 'training vacuums' that can isolate individual programs. The conference will host trainee research presentations, and establish cross-program and cross-institutional mentoring relationships that assist trainees in making more informed career choices. For faculty, the conference will promote and support open discussions and exchanges of best training practices and define the challenges to be addressed as trainees transition from one training stage to another. With an attendance number of 60 -70, the conference will offer an intimate retreat setting that cultivates rich interactions among attendees. The specific aims are to: 1) Establish a regional inter-institutional retreat and networking venue to optimize interactions between i) program directors, ii) program directors & trainees and iii) trainees at various career stages which will lead to stronger and more longitudinal, networks and collaborative links that support successful training trajectories. These interactions will support and inform faculty training practices from the undergraduate level through to the graduate level that will ultimately translate into broader institutional impact at the participating institutions. And 2) Establish a regional forum to develop and annually evaluate best training practices that will be shared with the national TWD community and larger scientific community and establish a pattern of assessment whose lasting benefits will be to a) ensure trainees transition seamlessly from one career training stage and environment to another, b) replenish the pool of well-trained scientists and scholars, c) meet our national need for sustaining a globally competitive scientific workforce and c) support the diversity efforts and mission of TWD.