The Northeast Regional Scientific Training & Program Development Conference

描述(申请者提供)：本五年计划将建立东北地区科学培训与项目发展会议。这一地区性会议将被用来催化科学培训项目开发和实践方面的变革性和长期变化，这些变化从早期本科水平开始，一直到高级研究生水平。它将利用NIGMS最近成立的培训、劳动力发展和多样性(TWD)部门，该部门将以前的More部门和当前的T32培训计划结合在一起。这些计划历来是相互独立运作的，通过这次会议，我们将把它们联合起来，以促进PD和受训人员之间更大的互动和关系的建立。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生RISE和IMSD项目、预科项目、研究生IMSD和T32项目以及IRACDA的项目主任(PD)和学员。由于这些项目中的每个项目都代表着在相同培训规模的不同地点运行的项目，因此他们共同参与了 会议代表着过程和实践的关键垂直整合。它将支持a)比在国家场馆发生的更多的方案相声，以及b)将支持制定和随后向国家TWD社区和其他社区传播由此产生的最佳做法。这些新的机构间关系将进一步有助于防止形成可能孤立个别项目的“培训真空”。会议将主持学员研究报告，并建立跨项目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，会议将促进和支持最佳培训实践的公开讨论和交流，并确定受训人员从一个培训阶段过渡到另一个阶段时需要应对的挑战。会议的出席人数为60-70人，会议将提供一个亲密的静修环境，培养与会者之间的丰富互动。具体目标是：1)建立地区机构间静修和联网场所，以优化i)计划主任、ii)计划主任和学员以及iii)不同职业阶段的学员之间的互动，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。这些互动将支持和告知从本科生到研究生的教师培训实践，这些实践最终将转化为 在参与机构中产生更广泛的体制影响。以及2)建立一个区域论坛，以制定和每年评估最佳培训做法，并将与国家TWD社区和更大的科学界共享，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阶段，b)补充训练有素的科学家和学者库，c)满足我们国家维持一支具有全球竞争力的科学劳动力的需求，以及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.