Neuroscience Training Program at Washington University

这项提案来自华盛顿大学生物和生物医学系的神经科学项目 科学(DBBS)，是联合赞助的Ruth L.Kirschstein国家研究服务的新申请 授予机构神经科学博士前培训计划。我们的首要目标是 神经科学课程旨在为我们的学员提供坚实的神经系统功能和 功能障碍，能够识别问题并设计战略，以批判性和严谨的方式解决问题，以及 在研究中执行、演示和指导他人所需的技能。我们目前培训的优势 计划包括强大和不断发展的课程，以解决现代神经科学的关键领域和 在任何神经科学职业生涯中取得成功所必需的技能，重点是提高学生的多样性 神经科学和留住多样化的学生在项目中，大学和合作的氛围，广泛 机构支持，社区外展和教学的多个神经科学相关机会，以及 支持性行政结构，促进教育过程的方方面面，从招聘到 学生的论文答辩和超越。该建议书建立在这些功能的基础上，具有持续性和前瞻性 旨在改进量化、实验和统计思维的举措，促进跨学科 和/或与学生研究相关的领域的高级培训，使课程交付现代化，提供 以证据为基础的道德培训，以解决广为人知的严谨性和可重复性问题， 评估这些举措的影响，并根据需要修改其执行情况。我们要求 为一年级和二年级的学生提供11个名额。学生将从这个项目中脱颖而出，拥有更强大的 在实验和统计思维、伦理和方法方面奠定基础，以提高严谨性和可重复性。 该项目的教职员工也将从接触这些领域的新兴方法和途径中受益。

This proposal, from the Neuroscience Program in Washington University’s Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences (DBBS), is a new application to the Jointly Sponsored Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Institutional Predoctoral Training Program in the Neurosciences. The overarching goals of our Neuroscience program are to equip our trainees with a firm foundation in nervous system function and dysfunction, the ability to identify problems and design strategies to address them critically and rigorously, and the skills required to perform, present, and mentor others in research. The strengths of our current training program include a strong and evolving curriculum to address critical areas of modern neuroscience and the skills necessary for success in any neuroscience career, a focus on improving diversity of students in neuroscience and retaining diverse students in the program, a collegial and collaborative atmosphere, broad institutional support, multiple neuroscience-related opportunities for community outreach and teaching and a supportive administrative structure that facilitates all aspects of the educational process, from recruitment of students to thesis defense and beyond. This proposal builds on these features with ongoing and future initiatives aimed at improving quantitative, experimental and statistical thinking, facilitating interdisciplinary and/or advanced training in areas relevant to a student’s research, modernizing curriculum delivery, providing evidence-based ethics training to address well-publicized problems of rigor and reproducibility, and assessing the impact of these initiatives and modifying their implementation as needed. We are requesting 11 slots for students in their 1st and 2nd years. Students will emerge from this program with a stronger foundation in experimental and statistical thinking, ethics and methods to improve rigor and reproducibility. Faculty in the program will also benefit from exposure to emerging methods and approaches in these areas.