Training in Education and Critical Research Skills

这是我们申请建立教育和批判性研究技能培训的重新提交 （TEACRS）计划在塔夫茨大学回应机构研究和学术生涯 发展奖励计划。我们的计划是基于对大学教师的需要，准备 满足年轻的助理教授追求他们的第一个独立的位置所面临的多重挑战。 我们将为我们的博士后学员提供他们在学术领域取得成功所需的职业技能。 通过整合三个培训组成部分的研究环境：严格的实验室研究;指导教学 经验;和职业发展技能。通过与当地两个少数民族服务机构合作， 罗克斯伯里社区学院和马萨诸塞州，波士顿大学，我们的学员还将获得 提高对多样性问题的认识和敏感性，并为各机构提供丰富的课程材料 为少数民族服务。我们的42名教师致力于卓越的研究，并拥有强大的 培训记录。研究机会集中在多个生物医学问题，特别强调 将向受训人员提供基本的生物学问题、癌症、神经科学和传染病。 研究委员会和研究顾问将监测以下方面的进展和职业发展 research.教学部分利用讲习班、讨论小组和辅导，使受训者做好准备， 在为少数群体服务的机构之一开发和提供自己设计的课程。一系列 职业建设研讨会，沿着检查点，提供指导和建设性反馈 退出程序。我们的目标是培养未来的学术科学领导者。大学教师必须 发展独立的研究项目，这是一项需要创造性思维，高智力， 具有良好的口头和书面沟通能力和相当的实验技能。这些 当教师参与课堂教学，在各种委员会任职时，活动必须持续下去。 和指导学员。成功还需要在人际关系、预算和时间方面的额外技能 管理TEACRS计划将为学员提供竞争所需的研究组合， 学术职位和博士后研究员需要满足他们将面临的挑战， 他们进入学术生涯。

This is a resubmission of our application to establish the Training in Education and Critical Research Skills (TEACRS) Program at Tufts University in response to the Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award Program. Our program is based on the need for university faculty that are prepared to meet the multiple challenges faced by young Assistant Professors pursuing their first independent position. We will provide our postdoctoral trainees with the career skills they will need to succeed in an academic research environment by integrating three training components: rigorous bench research; mentored teaching experience; and career development skills. By partnering with two local minority serving institutions, Roxbury Community College and the University of Massachusetts, Boston, our trainees will also acquire a greater knowledge and sensitivity to diversity issues and provide enriched course material to institutions serving a minority population. Our faculty of 42 is committed to research excellence and has a strong training record. Research opportunities focused on multiple biomedical problems with special emphasis on basic biological problems, cancer, neuroscience and infectious disease will be available to trainees. Research committees and research advisors will monitor progress and career development with respect to research. The teaching component uses workshops, discussion groups and tutorials to prepare trainees to develop and present a course of their own design at one of the minority serving institutions. A series of career building workshops, along with checkpoints that provide mentoring and constructive feedback round out the program. Our goal is to produce the academic scientific leaders of the future. University faculty must develop independent research programs, an activity that requires creative thought, high intellectual capacity, outstanding facility with oral and written communication and considerable experimental skill. These activities must be sustained while faculty participate in classroom teaching, serve on a variety of committees and mentor trainees. Success also requires additional skills in interpersonal relations, budgeting and time management. The TEACRS program will provide trainees with the research portfolio needed to compete for academic positions and the skill set that postdoctoral fellows need to meet the challenges they will face as they enter academic careers.