Strengthening Mentorship for a Diversified Biomedical Research Workforce

描述(由申请人提供)：国家研究指导网络(NRMN)的目标是增加未被充分代表的少数群体(URM)学者获得科学职业的机会，并提高导师的有效性，帮助他们成功地驾驭研究职业发展道路。我们团队对NRMN的愿景基于一个基本前提：NRMN目标的实现不仅依赖于将导师(成熟的研究人员)与被辅导者(本科生、博士后研究员和初级教员，特别是来自未被充分代表的少数群体)联系起来，而且还要使两者都准备成为指导关系中的有效合作伙伴。换句话说，NRMN必须促进在生物医学培训中建立指导关系，同时也扩大和深化这些指导关系对受训者和早期教职调查人员的成功和坚持不懈的影响。因此，我们特别致力于以证据为基础的NRMN活动，这些活动将促进信任的指导关系，帮助个人成功地驾驭整个研究职业发展道路。我们为NRMN组建了一支杰出的规划团队，由来自威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校、马里兰大学和明尼苏达大学的调查人员领导，他们拥有互补的专业知识。我们这项为期六个月的规划提案的具体目的是为NRMN设计一个可持续的基础设施，以培养多样化的伙伴关系，利用多学科的专业知识和创新技术来建立所需的领导和业务能力，以传播在生物医学研究中未被充分代表的少数族裔受训人员改进的指导研究经验。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) is to increase the access of underrepresented minority (URM) scholars to careers in science and improve the effectiveness of mentors who will help them successfully navigate the research career development pathway. Our team's vision for NRMN is based on a fundamental premise: The achievement of NRMN goals is dependent on not only connecting mentors (established researchers) with mentees (undergraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty, particularly from underrepresented minority groups), but also preparing both to be effective partners within the mentoring relationship. In other words, the NRMN must facilitate the establishment of mentoring relationships in biomedical training, while also broadening and deepening the impact of those mentoring relationships on the success and persistence of trainees and early-stage faculty investigators. For this reason, we are especially committed to evidence-based NRMN activities that will facilitate the trusting mentoring relationships needed to help individuals successfully navigate the entire research career development pathway. We have assembled an outstanding planning team for the NRMN, led by investigators drawn from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Maryland, and University of Minnesota, who have complimentary expertise. Our specific aim for this six-month planning proposal is to design a sustainable infrastructure for the NRMN that cultivates diverse partnerships, capitalizes on multidisciplinary expertise and innovative technologies to build the leadership and operational capacities required to disseminate improved mentored research experiences of underrepresented minority trainees in biomedical research.