Chemistry of Life Processes Predoctoral Training Program

摘要 越来越多的证据表明，研究生教育存在心理健康危机。该提案要求 生命过程的化学博士前培训计划的补充资金，该计划支持 为来自生命科学、化学和工程研究生课程的学生提供跨学科培训， 一个可持续的培训环境，培养学员的能力和实践的循证 技能，态度和行为，促进福祉和弹性。 我们将部署四项战略来实现这一目标：（1）制定福祉和复原力的新方案 （2）对NIGMS学员和导师的培训和活动;（3）评估拟议福利的有效性 （3）将健康和复原力培训纳入现有的 西北大学的生物医学培训项目;（4）项目成果和活动的传播 更广泛的培训社区。我们方法的基础是将健康和恢复力相结合 （a）调查受训人员，以确定他们的 心理健康、福祉和复原力，最佳做法知识，实施福祉和复原力 实践，以及他们对工具、活动和培训的需求和兴趣，以提高健康和复原力;（B） 利用补充资金对培训员进行“培训”，指导如何向学生和教职员工传授复原力技能;（c） 通过每月为学员和导师举办互动讲习班，提供免费循证技能培训; (d)培训，支持和鼓励采用自我护理计划作为积极主动的重要工具 处理个人福祉和复原力问题;（e）促进发展同侪支助小组;（f） 利用在线健康资源，将健康活动扩大纳入持续培训活动 可通过NIH OITE和Postdoc Academy获得。 一个领导团队，由四个NIGMS资助的T32博士前培训项目的主任组成， 西北大学，沿着人员在研究生院，塞尔中心推进学习和 教学和研究办公室将负责实施这些战略， 通过形成性评价和总结性评价相结合，不断改进。拟议的新培训 这些做法和活动将产生广泛的影响，不仅包括167名学员和114名教师， 参与NIGMS培训计划，而且还通过传播到整个生物医学培训 在西北社区。这些方案和活动将纳入现有的培训活动， 通过研究生院的行政资源和生命过程的化学来维持 院

ABSTRACT There is increasing evidence of a mental health crisis in graduate education. This proposal requests supplemental funding for the Chemistry of Life Processes Predoctoral Training Program, which supports interdisciplinary training for students from life sciences, chemistry, and engineering graduate programs to create a sustainable training environment that develops trainee competence and practice of evidence-based skills, attitudes, and behaviors that foster well-being and resilience. We will deploy four strategies to achieve this goal: (1) Development of a new program of well-being and resilience training and activities for NIGMS trainees and mentors; (2) Assessment of the efficacy of proposed well-being and resilience training on trainees and mentors; (3) Incorporation of wellness and resilience training into existing biomedical training programs at Northwestern University; and (4) Dissemination of program results and activities to the broader training community. The foundation of our approach is to integrate wellness and resilience practices into the fabric of training and mentoring by (a) surveying trainees to determine the current state of their mental health, well-being and resilience, knowledge of best practices, implementation of wellness and resilience practices, and their needs and interests in tools, activities, and training to improve wellness and resilience; (b) using supplement funding to “train-the-trainers” in how to teach resilience skills to students and faculty; (c) providing free evidence-based skills training through monthly interactive workshops for trainees and mentors; (d) training, supporting and encouraging adoption of self-care planning as an essential tool for proactively addressing individual well-being and resilience; (e) facilitating development of peer support groups; and (f) broadening incorporation of wellness activities into ongoing training activities using online wellness resources available through the NIH OITE and Postdoc Academy. A leadership team, consisting of the directors of the four NIGMS-funded T32 predoctoral training programs at Northwestern, along with personnel in The Graduate School, the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching, and the Office for Research, will be responsible for implementation of these strategies, which will be continuously improved via a combination of formative and summative evaluations. The proposed new training practices and activities will have a broad impact, including not only the 167 trainees and 114 preceptors in the participating NIGMS training programs, but also through dissemination to the entire biomedical training community at Northwestern. These programs and activities will be integrated into existing training activities and be sustained through the administrative resources of The Graduate School and the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute.