SUPPORT FOR FACULTY TO TEACH SURVIVAL SKILLS AND ETHICS

在科学上取得成功需要各种专业的“生存”技能，以及通常由博士后和博士后培训项目提供的背景和研究经验。因此，大多数研究人员最终必须学会有效地沟通(口头或书面)，教授、监督和指导，获得工作和资金，并表现出负责任的行为。在过去的15年里，PIS开发了一门课程，为学生提供这些科目的明确培训。此外，它们现在还提供年度培训师讲习班，教职员工在讲习班上获得在其所在机构开设此类课程所需的指导和材料。在这项提案中，要求提供资金，以扩大它们传播其提供生存技能和道德培训的模式的努力。有三个具体目标：(L)增加在其他机构开设生存技能和道德课程。这将通过提供36-40个奖学金来实现，这些奖学金将支付参加培训员讲习班的费用，并向教员提供小额启动补助金，用于在其机构开设生存技能和道德方面的课程。(2)促进课程实施的可持续性。为此，将继续协助参加未来(或曾经参加)培训师讲习班的教员，通过向他们提供持续的咨询和支助服务，包括更新材料，来维持有关生存技能和道德的课程和讲习班。(三)加强和扩大项目效果评估。这将通过对参与者进行调查来完成，以期为课程的实施作出努力。通过这些方式，私人投资机构寻求改善研究生和博士后教育，促进对许多技能的明确指导，这些技能是作为一名专业人员取得成功所必需的，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.