SUPPORT FOR FACULTY TO TEACH SURVIVAL SKILLS AND ETHICS

科学的成功需要各种专业的“生存”技能以及通常由博士前和博士后培训计划提供的背景和研究经验。因此，最终大多数研究人员必须学会有效沟通（口头或书面），教学，监督和指导，获得工作和资金，并负责任地行事。在过去的15年里，PI开发了一门课程，为学生提供这些科目的明确培训。此外，它们现在每年举办培训员培训讲习班，让教员获得在自己的机构开设这种课程所需的指导和材料。在这项提案中，要求提供资金，以扩大它们的努力，传播其提供生存技能和道德培训的模式。有三个具体目标：（l）在其他机构增加开设生存技能和道德课程。为此，将提供36-40个奖学金，用于支付参加培训员培训员讲习班的费用，并向教员提供小额启动赠款，用于在其机构开设生存技能和道德课程。(2)促进所实施课程的可持续性。这将通过继续协助教师谁参加未来（或已参加前）培训员的培训员讲习班在维持生存技能和道德的课程和讲习班，为他们提供持续的咨询和支持服务，包括最新的材料。(3)加强和扩大对项目成效的评价。这将通过调查参与者实施课程的努力来实现。通过这些方式，PI寻求改善研究生和博士后教育，促进许多技能的明确指导，这些技能是作为一个专业人士取得成功所必需的，但在科学研究生培训计划中往往没有正式教授。

Success in science requires a variety of professional "survival" skills as well as the background and research experience normally provided by pre- and post-doctoral training programs. Thus, ultimately most researchers must learn to communicate effectively (orally or in writing), teach, supervise and mentor, obtain a job and funding, and behave responsibly. Over the past 15 years the PIs have developed a course to provide students with explicit training in these subjects. In addition, they now offer annual trainer-of-trainers workshops in which faculty obtain the instruction and materials necessary to establish such courses at their own institutions. In this proposal, funding is requested to extend their efforts at disseminating their model for providing training in survival skills and ethics. There are three specific aims: (l) To increase the implementation of courses in survival skills and ethics at other institutions. This would be accomplished by providing 36-40 scholarships that will cover the cost of participating in the trainer-of- trainers workshop and provide faculty with small start-up grants for establishing courses in survival skills and ethics at their institutions. (2) To promote the sustainabilitv of courses implemented. This would be done by continuing to assist faculty who attend future (or have attended former) trainer-of-trainers workshop in sustaining courses and workshops in survival skills and ethics by providing them with on-going consultation and support services including updates of materials. (3) To strengthen and expand the evaluation of project effectiveness. This would be done through surveys of participants efforts to implement courses. In these ways the PIs seek to improve graduate and postdoctoral education, promoting explicit instruction in many of the skills that are necessary for success as a professional, yet are often not formally taught in graduate training programs in the sciences.