Beyond the Professoriate: Transforming Pathways for Biomedical Research Careers

描述(由申请者提供)：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：埃默里大学和佐治亚理工学院。亚特兰大最佳项目的长期目标是让博士后和博士后科学家更好地为生物医学研究队伍中可能的各种职业做准备，并在培训社区内建立一个网络，分享、评估和广泛传播最佳实践。该计划将通过自上而下和自下而上的方法，通过为受训者和培训/指导教师创造新的机会，参与培训文化的转变，建立适应21世纪科学工作人员需求的博士前和博士后培训方案。对于实习生，我们每年将接纳50名实习生(博士前和博士后，一半来自埃默里，一半来自佐治亚理工学院)。每个受训人员将被任命参加为期两年的计划，尽管他们和所有其他受训人员被鼓励参与整个培训过程。教员活动最初将面向这些受训人员的首席研究员/顾问，以及两所大学所有以生物医学研究为基础的研究生课程的负责人和支持生物医学研究人员职业发展中这种文化变化的其他培训教员。利用亚特兰大生物医学研究界在疾病控制和预防中心(CDC)等机构和制药行业成员开展的各种活动，我们将建立、实施和评估创新的方法和活动，以扩大和补充生物医学科学中的传统研究培训，实现以下三个目标：目标1：使受训人员接触到除学术之外的各种职业道路。目标2：让学员深度沉浸在学术之外的特定职业道路中。目标3：更好地装备埃默里和佐治亚理工学院的教师，为21世纪的劳动力培养研究生和博士后研究员。亚特兰大BEST计划将利用埃默里和佐治亚理工学院现有的机构资源，扩大和丰富博士后和博士后学员及其教师导师的培训经验，并将开发针对学术界以外的各种职业道路的有意义的机会，包括在当地机构和机构的各种实习机会。从这项工作中吸取的经验教训将用于确定培训 将通过出版物、在亚特兰大地区研究机构的当地研讨会上的讨论、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途径广泛传播。

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.