Beyond the Professoriate: Transforming Pathways for Biomedical Research Careers

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案代表了亚特兰大两所杰出的研究型大学之间的合作：埃默里大学和格鲁吉亚理工学院（格鲁吉亚理工学院）。亚特兰大BEST计划的长期目标是更好地为博士前和博士后科学家在生物医学研究劳动力中可能的职业生涯做好准备，并建立一个网络，分享，评估和广泛传播培训社区内的最佳实践。该计划将建立适应博士前和博士后培训的方案替代方案，以满足21世纪世纪科学劳动力的需求，通过参与培训文化的转变-自上而下和自下而上的方法-为学员和培训/指导教师创造新的机会。对于学员，我们将每年招收50名学员（包括博士前和博士后，一半来自埃默里大学，一半来自格鲁吉亚理工学院）。每个受训者将被任命为该计划的两年，虽然他们和所有其他受训者被鼓励参与整个培训。教师活动最初将针对这些学员的首席研究员/顾问，加上来自两所大学的所有生物医学研究型研究生课程的领导者以及支持生物医学研究人员职业发展中这种文化变化的培训教师的其他成员。利用亚特兰大生物医学研究社区在疾病控制和预防中心（CDC）等机构和制药行业成员的各种活动，我们将建立，实施和评估创新方法和活动，以扩大和补充生物医学科学的传统研究培训，在以下三个目标：目标1：让学员接触学术界以外的各种职业道路。目标2：让学员深入学术界以外的特定职业道路。目标3：更好地装备埃默里和格鲁吉亚理工学院的教师，为21世纪世纪的劳动力培养研究生和博士后研究员。亚特兰大BEST计划将利用埃默里大学和格鲁吉亚理工学院的现有机构资源，扩大和丰富博士前和博士后学员及其教师导师的培训经验，并将针对学术界以外的各种职业途径开发有意义的机会，包括与当地机构和机构的各种实习机会。将利用从这一努力中吸取的经验教训，确定培训 生物医学研究队伍，并将通过出版物、在哥伦比亚地区研究机构的地方研讨会上的讨论、教师和受训人员在专业会议的教育会议上的演讲以及通过其他渠道广泛传播。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposal represents a collaboration between two outstanding research universities in Atlanta: Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). The long-term goal of the Atlanta BEST Program is to better prepare pre-doctoral and postdoctoral scientists for the breadth of possible careers in the biomedical research workforce, and to establish a network, share, evaluate, and disseminate widely best practices within the training community. The Program will establish programmatic alternatives for adapting pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training to meet 21st century scientific workforce needs by engaging in a transformation of the culture of training - in both a top-down and bottom-up approach - by creating new opportunities for both the trainees and the training/mentoring faculty. For the trainees, we will admit one cohort of 50 trainees per year (both pre-doctoral and postdoctoral, half from Emory and half from Georgia Tech). Each trainee will be appointed to the program for two years, although they and all other trainees are encouraged to be involved throughout their training. Faculty activities will initially target the Principal Investigators/advisors of those trainees, plus leaders of all of the biomedical research-based graduate programs from the two universities and other members of the training faculty who are supportive of this change of culture in the career development of biomedical researchers. Taking advantage of the wide variety of activities in the Atlanta biomedical research community at institutions such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and members of the pharmaceutical industry, we will establish, implement, and assess innovative approaches and activities to broaden and compliment traditional research training in the biomedical sciences, in the following three Aims: Aim 1: To expose trainees to a broad variety of career pathways beyond academia. Aim 2: To provide trainees deep immersion into a specific career pathway beyond academia. Aim 3: To better equip faculty at Emory and Georgia Tech to train graduate students and postdoctoral fellows for the 21st century workforce. The Atlanta BEST Program will leverage existing institutional resources from Emory and Georgia Tech to broaden and enrich training experiences for predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees, and their faculty mentors, and will develop meaningful opportunities targeting various career pathways outside of academia including a variety of internships with local institutions and agencies. The lessons learned from this effort will be used identify best practices for training of the biomedical research workforce, and will be disseminated broadly via publication, discussion at a local symposium of Atlanta-area research institutions, presentations by faculty and trainees in educational sessions of professional meetings, and via other avenues.