Core E: Training Core

培训核心的目的是为参与PRoTECT计划的机构的不同学生群体提供高质量的跨学科生物医学和非生物医学培训，教育和指导。为了实现这一目标，我们开发了一个有效的培训核心计划，使学生能够：1）理解和整合污染系统的健康影响评估，污染物检测，归宿和运输，暴露途径，补救措施和信息管理的问题和概念; 2）发展基础研究核心活动的应用方法的能力;及3）提升他们的技术、专业及个人技能/知识/态度，以激励他们为在这些范畴成功的事业作好准备。培训核心将影响学生的广泛经验，学科和教育水平，导致纵向（教育/经验）和横向（学科）综合培训，教育和辅导。高级研究核心人员（教员、研究科学家等）将通过提供新的和增强的课程、非正式培训机会、研讨会和讲习班、实地和实验室经验以及指导初级人员，为这一核心作出贡献。培训核心首先是有效招聘各级人力资源，从本科生到博士后研究员，特别强调从受影响学科代表性不足的群体中招聘。沿着各种支持机制（包括奖学金、津贴和各种培训/教育方案），将实施“阶梯”辅导/培训制度，使各级人员受益于上级人员的知识和经验，反过来，辅导和培训下级人员，目的是使每个人在专业阶梯上更上一层楼。一个系统的评估和评价方案将纳入持续的质量改进进程，以帮助项目小组了解并在必要时修改教育/培训活动与研究核心之间的相互作用。这将优化对研究活动所需人力资源的影响，以及这些活动如何为教育和专业发展提供工具和机会。

The aim of the training core is to provide high quality interdisciplinary biomedical and non-biomedical training, education and mentoring for the diverse group of students at the institutions participating in the PRoTECT program. To achieve this aim, we have developed an effective training core program that will enable students to: 1) understand and integrate the problems and concepts of health impacts assessment of contaminated systems, contaminant detection, fate and transport, exposure routes, remediation, and information management; 2) develop competence in the applied methods underlying research core activities; and 3) advance their technical, professional and personal skills/knowledge/attitudes to motivate and prepare them for successful careers in these fields. The training core will impact students across a wide spectrum of experience, discipline and educational levels resulting in both vertically (education/experience) and horizontally (discipline) integrated training, education and mentoring. Senior research core personnel (faculty, research scientists, etc.) will contribute to this core via new and enhanced course offerings, informal training opportunities, seminar and workshop offerings, field and laboratory experiences, and mentoring junior personnel. The training core begins with effective recruiting of human resources at all levels, from undergraduate students through post-doctoral fellows, with particular emphasis on recruiting from groups underrepresented in the affected disciplines. Along with a myriad of support mechanisms (including scholarships, stipends, and various training/education programs) a "ladder" mentoring/training system will be implemented, whereby those at various levels benefit from the knowledge and experience of those above them, and in turn, mentor and train those junior to them, with the goal of moving each person to the next rung on the professional ladder. A systematic assessment and evaluation program will feed into a continuous quality improvement process to help the project team to understand, and modify as necessary, the interactions between the education/training activities and the research cores. This will optimize the impact on human resources required for the research activities and how those activities provide tools and opportunities for educational and professional development.