USBJI Young Investigators Initiative Career Mentoring Program

该提案寻求资金支持青年调查员倡议(YII)。YII是世界上 美国骨和关节倡议的旗舰计划，并建立了培训下一个 一代肌肉骨骼研究人员在准备高质量的拨款提案方面的艺术。这个 计划/会议在相隔12-18个月的两个周末举行。在YII的第一阶段，早在 阶段性临床和基础科学研究人员学习提出假设驱动的研究和 准备重要的和创新的赠款提案。他们被分配了2-4名经验丰富的导师 与他们一起开发一个研究问题。然后，年轻的研究人员撰写并提交一份拨款提案。 在收到颁奖机构审查小组对他们提案的批评后，他们返回进行第二次评审 YII方案的阶段(通常在12-18个月之后)。在此阶段，参与者将学习如何应对 对应用进行了批判和提炼和完善。然后重新提交申请。这个迭代过程 一直持续到调查员收到资金。 YII辅导计划取得了令人瞩目的成功。自2005年成立以来，超过 已有750名科学家申请培训。378个已被接受。这些人已经收到了1104份 拨款总额超过2.8亿美元。融资成功率为55%。 YII大力支持在招募年轻的基础和临床科学家加入该计划方面的多样性。 51%的参与者是女性。我们确保对儿童和家庭照料和残疾的安排 可在各会议地点查阅。此外，招聘代表性不足的少数族裔候选人 也是YII的一大特色。在这方面，YII利用CTSA(临床翻译)的NIH网络 科学奖)机构发现潜在的少数族裔候选人，并将在必要时免除任何费用 这些人。 组成指导教师的科学家都是前NIH和CIHR研究小组成员 拥有多年的经验。他们参与这项计划是自愿的。他们参与的原因是 他们致力于保持新的肌肉骨骼研究人员的渠道满员。所需预算的大部分 在这项提案中，将用于支付教职员工的费用和购置会议场地。 总而言之，我们必须提供尽可能好的培训，以促进年轻人的事业发展 从事肌肉骨骼科学的研究人员。我们认为青年调查员倡议，在 至少在一定程度上实现了这一目标。

This proposal seeks funding to support the Young Investigator Initiative (YII). The YII is one of the flagship programs of the United States Bone and Joint Initiative and was established to train the next generation of musculoskeletal investigators in the art of preparing high quality grant proposals. The program/conference occurs over two weekends separated by 12-18 months. In the first phase of the YII, early stage clinical and basic science investigators learn the principles of proposing hypothesis-driven research and preparing significant and innovative grant proposals. They are assigned 2-4 experienced mentors who work with them in developing a research question. The young investigators then write and submit a grant proposal. After receiving a critique of their proposal from the awarding agency's review group, they return for the second phase of the YII program (usually after 12-18 months). In this phase, the participants learn how to respond to the critique and refine and improve the application. The application is then resubmitted. This iterative process continues until the investigator receives funding. The success of the YII mentoring program has been remarkable. Since its establishment in 2005, over 750 scientists have applied for training. 378 have been accepted. These individuals have received 1,104 grants totaling over $280 million dollars. The success rate for funding is 55%. The YII strongly supports diversity in recruiting young basic and clinical scientists into the program. 51% of the participants are female. We ensure that arrangements for child and family care and handicap access are available at the conference sites. Moreover, recruitment of under-represented minority candidates is also a major feature of YII. In this regard, the YII utilizes the NIH network of CTSA (Clinical Translational Science Award) institutions to identify potential minority candidates and will, if necessary, waive any fees for these individuals. The scientists that comprise the mentoring faculty are all former NIH and CIHR study section members with many years of experience. Their involvement in this program is voluntary. They participate because of their commitment to keep full the pipeline of new musculoskeletal investigators. Most of the budget requested in this proposal will be used to defray the expenses of the faculty and procure the conference venue. In summary, it is important that we provide the best possible training to advance the careers of young investigators working in the musculoskeletal sciences. We believe that the Young Investigator Initiative, at least in part, achieves this goal.