NSF INCLUDES DDLP: BEST BET: Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training - Beginning Enhancement Track

拓宽科学培训的经验：开始增强轨道（“BEST-BET”）是NSF包括设计和开发启动试点项目，利用了五个研究密集型机构的专业知识，这些机构为生物医学研究的博士和博士后学员制定了职业和专业发展的创新规划。该项目的目标是扩大范围和利用工作，使学生更早地参与他们的职业探索。具体来说，该项目将针对那些可能没有意识到自己有多种职业选择的本科生。这些机会包括在学术界、生物技术和制药业、科学传播、科学政策和技术转让/专利法方面的机会。这项工作将重点关注来自STEM领域普遍代表性不足的人群的本科生，包括但不限于种族、种族和社会经济服务不足的社区。这笔赠款将为少数族裔服务机构的学生提供教育机会，并将评估为该社区提供新机会的影响。多元化和包容性社区的重要贡献对所有STEM领域的进步至关重要。通过促进教育的多样性，该项目旨在使本科生在其专业发展的某个阶段参与到广泛的劳动力机会中，从而促进科学和国家卫生的进步。BEST BET的重点将是使用一个集体影响框架，将机构的“BEST网络”与从事对生命科学感兴趣的代表性不足的社区学生的本科教育的合作伙伴联系起来。潜在的前提是，职业探索的重点是医生培训之外的机会，这将使这个社区的学习者参与到生命科学工作中，超越医学预科的轨道，并使他们参与到学位的完成中。将使用多种策略来实现BEST BET的目标。它们是在两个主要目标的背景下组织起来的，大致分为计划活动的范围。第一个目标侧重于“职业探索”，并提供战略以协助伙伴机构建立职业和技能发展能力。第二个是基于更好的实地考察经验，本科生将有机会设想作为研究生和以后的生活。这些策略可能会增强你完成学士学位和攻读博士学位的毅力。

The Broadening Experience for Scientific Training: Beginning Enhancement Track ("BEST-BET"), an NSF INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilot project, draws upon the expertise of five research-intensive institutions that have developed innovative programing in career and professional development for doctoral and postdoctoral trainees in biomedical research. The goal of the project is to expand the scope and leverage the work so as to engage students earlier in their career exploration. Specifically, the project will target undergraduates who may not be aware of the multitude of career options available to them. These include opportunities in academia, the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, science communication, science policy, and technology transfer/patent law. The effort will focus on undergraduates who come from populations generally underrepresented in STEM fields, including but not limited to ethnically, racially and socioeconomically underserved communities. The grant will support educational opportunities for students at minority-serving institutions and will assess the impact of providing new opportunities to this community. The critical contributions of a diverse and inclusive community are essential to progress in all STEM fields. By promoting diversity in education, this project aims to engage undergraduate students at a point in their professional development that could enable participation in a wide range of workforce opportunities so as to advance the progress of science and national health. The focus of BEST BET will be to use a collective impact framework to connect the "BEST network" of institutions to partners engaged in undergraduate education of students from underrepresented communities who are interested in the life sciences. The underlying premise is that career exploration focused on opportunities that go beyond physician training will enable engagement of this community of learners in the life science workforce beyond the pre-med track and keep them engaged in degree completion. Multiple strategies will be used to attain the goals of BEST BET. They are organized in the context of two major objectives roughly divided into the scope of planned activities. The first objective focuses on "career exploration" and offers strategies to assist partner institutions to build career and skill development capacities. The second is grounded in an enhanced experience of BEST site visits whereby undergraduates will have the opportunity to envision life as a graduate student and beyond. These strategies will likely enhance persistence to complete the baccalaureate degree and move onto doctoral programs.