SUPPORT FOR FACULTY TO TEACH SURVIVAL SKILLS AND ETHICS

科学上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项目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地沟通（口头或书面）、教学、监督和指导、获得工作和资金以及负责任的行为。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师的培训师讲习班，使教员获得在自己的机构开设这类课程所需的指导和材料。在这项建议中，要求提供资金，以扩大其努力，传播其提供生存技能和道德训练的模式。有三个具体目标：(l)在其他机构增加实施生存技能和道德方面的课程。为此，将提供36-40个奖学金，以支付参加“训练者的训练者”讲习班的费用，并向教员提供小额开办补助金，以便在其机构开设生存技能和道德规范课程。(2)促进所实施课程的可持续性。为此，将继续协助参加未来（或曾经参加过）培训师的培训师讲习班的教员，为他们提供持续的咨询和支助服务，包括更新材料，以维持生存技能和道德方面的课程和讲习班。(3)加强和拓展项目有效性评价。这将通过调查参与者实施课程的努力来完成。通过这些方式，pi寻求改善研究生和博士后教育，促进明确指导作为专业人士取得成功所必需的许多技能，但这些技能往往没有在科学研究生培训计划中正式教授。

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.