2012 ASN Professional Development Seminar

描述(由申请者提供)：职业发展研讨会(PDS)是由肾病学妇女(WIN)组织的，自1996年以来每年在美国肾脏学会(ASN)肾脏周期间作为研究生教育课程的一部分提供。PDS的总体目标是为肾病学实习生和初级教员提供关键的知识和技能，以促进他们的专业成长和帮助他们实现职业目标。具体地说，PDS提供了对在当前劳动力环境下导致肾脏内科成功职业生涯的特征的洞察，强调获得这些特征所需的技能，并确定和制定克服障碍的战略。研讨会还促进了网络的建立，汇聚了肾脏病学方面的初级和高级医生、科学家和培训项目主任，为通常不会发生互动的群体创造了协同效应。PDS的独特设置(发生在ASN肾脏周)使在PDS发起的互动在一周及以后得以巩固。今年的研讨会是为期一天的密集学习活动。采用了各种教学方法和形式，从1：1速度辅导到圆桌促成的小组讨论，再到全体会议，以刺激和最大限度地提高有效学习。将向每一位受邀发言者发出具体指示，说明在其分配的时间内要实现的目标。 全体会议的大多数演讲者还被分配到小组讨论和1：1辅导，以进一步进行个性化的职业咨询。随着慢性肾脏病(CKD)患者人数的增加，对CKD患者的高质量护理和肾脏病研究的进步的需求变得更加强烈。满足这些需求的一项关键策略是确保我们未来工作人口的质量，这取决于培养新来的人的职业生涯发展。肾脏病团契培训不包括以专业成长为重点的培训。拟议的PDS就是为了填补这一空白，提供关键知识和技能，使参与者能够最大限度地发挥他们的潜力，让他们有更多的机会蓬勃发展，从而更充分地贡献他们的才华，更好地了解肾脏疾病及其诊断和治疗。因此，研讨会是及时的，显然是NIH/NIDDK的一个具体重点领域。研讨会的组织者和演讲者具有非凡的质量，特别适合他们所分配的任务。在多年来的反馈基础上，PDS一直在实现其目标。它对许多与会者的职业发展产生了强大的影响，他们不仅实现了自己的职业目标，而且每年都会以PDS演讲者和/或规划师的身份回来。大约50%的PDS与会者是妇女和代表不足的少数族裔。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Professional Development Seminar (PDS) is organized by Women in Nephrology (WIN) and has been offered annually since 1996 as a part of the post-graduate education courses during the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week. The overall objective of the PDS is to provide key knowledge and skills to nephrology trainees and junior faculty to enhance their professional growth and to help them reach their career goals. Specifically, PDS offers insights into characteristics that lead to a successful career in nephrology in the current workforce environment, highlight skills necessary to acquire these characteristics, and identify and develop strategies to overcome barriers. The Seminar also fosters networking, bringing together junior and senior physicians, scientists and training program directors in nephrology, creating synergy in a setting for groups among whom interactions do not typically occur. The unique setting of the PDS (occurring during the ASN Kidney Week) allows the interactions initiated at PDS to solidify throughout the week and beyond. This year, the Seminar is an intensive one-day learning event. A variety of delivery methods and formats, from 1:1 speed-mentoring to roundtable facilitated group discussion, to plenary sessions, are employed to stimulate and maximize effective learning. Each invited speaker will be given specific instructions as to objectives to be achieved in their allotted time. Most of the speakers for the plenary sessions are also assigned to group discussions and 1:1 mentoring for further individualized career counseling. With a growing population of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), the demands for high-quality CKD patient care and advancement in nephrology research have become more intense. One critical strategy for meeting these demands is to ensure the quality of our future workforce, which hinges on nurturing professional career growth for new comers. Nephrology fellowship training does not include a focused training on professional growth. The proposed PDS is an effort to fill this gap, providing key knowledge and skills to empower participants to maximize their potential and allow them to have more opportunity to flourish, thereby contributing their talents more fully to the better understanding of kidney diseases, their diagnosis and treatment. The Seminar is, therefore, timely and is clearly an NIH/NIDDK area of specific focus. The organizers and speakers of the seminar are of exceptional quality and uniquely suited to their assigned tasks. On the basis of feed-back over the years, PDS has been consistently achieving its objectives. It exerts a powerful impact on the career development of many attendees who not only have achieved their professional goals but also return each year as PDS speakers and/or planners. Approximately 50% PDS attendees have been women and underrepresented minorities.