Mentoring for Success: Developing Fundamental Skills for Biomedical Research

 描述(由申请人提供)：西北大学国际管理发展学院(NU IMSD)的使命是通过提供精心设计的专业发展序列来促进生物医学研究队伍的多样化，以加强早期博士培训。该项目同样注重培养准备水平较高的博士生和那些来自资源较少但表现出预示成功的关键特征的学生的才华。这次续签建立在8年的渐进成功和对博士学位头两年发生的快速过渡和增长的仔细关注的项目设计的基础上。NU IMSD确实是独一无二的，因为它建立在多种社会科学理论和模型的基础上，这些理论和模型解释了代表不足的少数族裔面临的额外挑战。这些社会科学理论及其在程序设计中的应用源于与NU IMSD一起进行的关于年轻科学家的职业发展和决策的大型实证和应用研究。这些研究和我们正在进行的项目评估工作导致了一系列活动的设计，这些活动有助于：1.快速而成功地过渡到博士培训；2.理解并在实验室中取得成功，包括看得见的和看不见的期望；3.选择与科学、指导和社会偏好一致的研究导师和团队；4.鉴于他们对外部和内部能力认知的强大贡献，迅速发展口头沟通技能；5.理解有效指导关系的关键原则，使学生能够指导他们自己的指导(指导)，而不是被动地依赖导师的行动；6.通过独特、非常成功地将NIH式的提案写作解构为易于理解和模式化的修辞模式，发展高水平的科学写作技能；7.在培训早期积极探索职业选择，以最大限度地减少整个博士培训过程中有意识或无意识的目标矛盾或困惑。NU IMSD还为一个更大的项目提供了基础，该项目对所有初级生物医学博士生开放，称为生物科学中的协作学习和集成指导(GRIDE)项目。通过参加REGISE，IMSD的学生不会受到与仅针对少数族裔的项目相关的刻板印象的风险，并享受到更多跨学科的年轻科学家队列，以便在指导专业发展的背景下了解情况。位于SCRAPE的位置也使管理学院能够在院校多元化方面发挥重要作用，与生命科学学院、国立大学研究生院及其院长可见和充满活力的多元化举措相辅相成。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of the Northwestern University IMSD (NU IMSD) is to contribute to the diversification of the biomedical research workforce by providing a carefully designed professional development sequence that enhances early PhD training. The program has an equal focus on developing the talents of students who enter the PhD with high levels of preparation, and those who come from lower-resourced backgrounds but who display key characteristics that predict success. This renewal builds upon 8 years of progressive success and a program design that pays careful attention to the rapid transitions and growth that takes place during the first 2 years of the PhD. The NU IMSD is truly unique in its foundation on multiple social science theories and models that explain the extra challenges faced by underrepresented minority individuals. These social science theories and their application to program design have arisen from large empirical and applied research studies of career progression and decision-making of young scientists that are being conducted alongside the NU IMSD. Those studies and our ongoing program evaluation efforts have led to the design of a sequence of activities that facilitate: 1. Rapid and successful transitions into PhD training;2. Understanding and succeeding in laboratories that includes both visible and invisible expectations; 3. Choosing a research mentor and group that align with scientific, mentoring and social preferences; 4. Rapid development of oral communication skills given their strong contributions to external and internal perceptions of competence; 5. Understanding of key principles of effective mentoring relationships, enabling students to guide their own mentoring (mentoring up) rather than passively depend on actions of mentors; 6. Development of high level scientific writing skills through a unique, highly successful deconstruction of NIH-style proposal writing into easily understood and modeled rhetorical patterns; 7. Active exploration of career options early in training to minimize conscious or unconscious ambivalence of purpose or confusion throughout the PhD training. The NU IMSD also provides the foundation for a larger program open to all beginning biomedical PhD students, called the Collaborative Learning and Integrated Mentoring in the Biosciences (CLIMB) program. By being part of CLIMB, IMSD students are not subject to risks of stereotyping associated with minority-only programs, and enjoy a much larger interdisciplinary cohort of young scientists to get to know within the context of guided professional development. Being situated within CLIMB also enables the IMSD to play a major role in institutional diversity efforts, complementing the visible and energetic diversity initiatives of the life science faculty, the NU Graduate School and its Dean.