Training in Education and Critical Research Skills

描述(由申请人提供)：这是我们申请在塔夫茨大学设立教育和关键研究技能培训(TEACRS)计划的重新提交，这是对机构研究和学术职业发展奖励计划的回应。我们的计划是基于对大学教师的需求，他们准备迎接年轻的助理教授追求他们的第一个独立职位所面临的多重挑战。我们将通过整合三个培训组成部分，为博士后学员提供在学术研究环境中取得成功所需的职业技能：严格的板凳研究；有指导的教学经验；以及职业发展技能。通过与当地两家为少数族裔服务的机构--罗克斯伯里社区学院和波士顿马萨诸塞大学合作，我们的学员还将获得更多关于多样性问题的知识和敏感度，并为服务少数族裔人口的机构提供丰富的课程材料。我们的42名教职员工致力于卓越的研究，并拥有良好的培训记录。学员将有机会研究多种生物医学问题，特别强调基本的生物问题、癌症、神经科学和传染病。研究委员会和研究顾问将监测研究方面的进展和职业发展。教学部分利用讲习班、讨论小组和教程，使受训人员做好准备，以便在为少数族裔服务的机构之一开发和讲授他们自己设计的课程。一系列的职业发展研讨会，以及提供指导和建设性反馈的检查站，完善了该计划。我们的目标是培养未来的学术和科学领袖。大学教职员工必须开发独立的研究项目，这项活动需要创造性思维、高智力、出色的口头和书面交流能力以及相当高的实验技能。这些活动必须在教员参与课堂教学、为各种委员会服务和指导学员期间持续进行。成功还需要在人际关系、预算和时间管理方面的额外技能。TEACRS计划将为学员提供竞争学术职位所需的研究组合，以及博士后研究员在进入学术生涯时面临的挑战所需的技能集。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 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.