Training in Education and Critical Research Skills

描述（由申请人提供）：教育和关键研究技能培训（TEACRS）计划服务于国家对受过生物医学研究培训的大学和学院教师的需求，这些教师为年轻助理教授寻求第一个独立职位所面临的多重挑战做好了最佳准备，并且了解科学劳动力多样性的价值。这些人必须做好充分的准备，以满足建立和管理一个富有成效的研究实验室的要求，获得资助，开发和提供令人兴奋和有效的课程，并参与到高等教育机构充满活力的生活中来。他们需要能够通过他们提供的教学和研究机会来激励下一代科学家。我们的目标是为有才华和合格的博士后学者提供研究组合和职业技能，他们需要在学术研究环境中取得成功，包括培训和指导未来的生物医学研究人员。为了实现这一目标，我们与马萨诸塞州大学波士顿分校、松庄园学院和邦克山社区学院这三家为当地少数族裔服务的机构建立了合作关系。塔夫茨大学将为这些学者提供严格的实验研究培训，引导他们发展独立的研究项目，并提供指导和活动，培养他们在教学、书面和口头交流、拨款写作、研究伦理行为、实验室管理和指导等方面的职业技能。通过与我们的合作伙伴合作，我们将为这些学员提供直接的课堂教学经验，在有指导的环境中与不同的学生群体一起学习。TEACRS还将提高我们的合作机构提供令人兴奋的科学课程的能力，并增加这些机构的教师和学生参与生物医学研究的机会。我们计划逐步扩大至每年招收四名学员，他们将获得75%的资助及25%的研究导师资助，为期最多四年。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Training in Education and Critical Research Skills (TEACRS) Program serves the national need for university and college faculty trained in biomedical research who are optimally prepared to meet the multiple challenges faced by young Assistant Professors pursuing their first independent position and who understand the value of diversity in the scientific workforce. These individuals must to be fully prepared to meet the demands of setting up and managing a productive research lab, obtaining grant funding, developing and delivering exciting and effective courses and participating in the vibrant life of a institution of higher learning. They need to be able to inspire the next generations of scientists through the teaching and research opportunities they offer. Our goal is to provide talented and qualified postdoctoral scholars with the research portfolio and career skills they will need to succeed in an academic research environment that includes training and mentoring of future biomedical researchers. To achieve this goal, we have partnered with three local minority-serving institutions, the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Pine Manor College and Bunker Hill Community College. Tufts will provide these scholars with rigorous bench research training leading to the development of an independent research program as evidenced by peer-reviewed publications and also provide instruction and activities that build career skills in teaching, written and oral communication, grant writing, ethical conduct of research, laboratory management and mentoring. By working with our partners, we will offer these trainees direct, in-classroom teaching experience with a diverse student body in a mentored setting. TEACRS will also enhance the capacity of our partner institutions to deliver exciting science curriculum and increase accessibility of faculty and students at these institutions to biomedical research. We plan to gradually expand to admitting four trainees each year who will receive receiving 75% support from this grant and 25% support from their research mentor for a maximum of four years. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Training in Education and Critical Research Skills Program at Tufts specifically addresses the need for talented biomedical scientists who will excel as researchers, teachers, and mentors in an academic setting and the need to enhance the diversity of the biomedical workforce. To accomplish this goal, we will provide postdoctoral trainees with rigorous hands-on training in biomedical research, and prepare them to handle the challenges of teaching and mentoring a diverse student body by partnering with local undergraduate institutions committed to serving under-represented students.