UC San Diego RAPID Faculty Development Program in Infectious Diseases

摘要 增强生物医学劳动力的多样性对于改善教育经验、促进 科学发现和创新，提高健康差距人口和 提高公众信任度。虽然学术机构在这一目标中发挥了重要作用，但使教师队伍多样化 在所有的多样性倡议中，RANES一直是最不成功的。加州大学圣地亚哥分校的总体目标 传染病发展计划(FDP-ID)，称为提高进步和平等 传染病研究人员(RAPID)的目标是增强生物医学研究队伍的多样性。 加州大学圣地亚哥分校的快速计划将提供有效的指导，课程以培养关键的学术技能 和经验，以提高以传染病为重点的研究方案的成功，并在 获得外部资金。RAPID将招聘代表不足的早期职业学者，包括初级教员 和博士后研究员，他们已经从国家人才库中获得了最初的教师职位来参与 加州大学圣地亚哥分校访问学者项目中的专业和研究开发活动。The Rapid 该项目由加州大学圣地亚哥分校的两名首席调查人员(PI)和三名合作调查人员(co-IS)执导 在指导和培训博士后研究员、住院医生和初级医生方面有丰富经验的医学院 在创建和实施职业发展和指导计划方面的教师和成功人士 早期职业学者的代表性不足。PIS/共同IS成功地领导了由外部资金资助的培训 计划；五个私人助理中有四个积极参与NIH赞助的传染病研究；四个 PIS来自生物医学劳动力中代表性较低的背景。加州大学可持续发展学院的具体目标 快速计划是通过提供早期职业学者来增强生物医学劳动力的多样性 来自代表性不足的种族/族裔、妇女和残疾群体，他们具有关键的学术技能，以提高他们的 成功地制定了以传染病为重点的研究计划。我们提出了三个具体目标。目标 1.通过招聘代表性较低的早期职业学者来增加生物医学劳动力的多样性 (初级教员和过渡博士后研究员)来自地方和国家有传染病的人才库 科学专业知识与我们研究导师的专业知识保持一致。目标2.加强职业技能发展 通过使用循证策略对参与者进行有效的指导，包括教师研究和 职业发展计划，指导团队，并通过提高各种专业的知识和技能 发展领域对研究成功很重要。目标3.促进研究培训和研究自我 早期职业学者在传染病研究知识、技能和策略方面的效能 沉浸在学员感兴趣的传染病领域的活动中。RAPID包括绩效指标/合作伙伴 在教师和URM实习生发展方面拥有丰富的经验，加州大学圣地亚哥分校资深教师队伍强大 来自代表性不足背景的研究人员和职业导师。

Abstract Enhancing the diversity of the biomedical workforce is important for improving educational experiences, fostering scientific discovery and innovation, enhancing the benefit of research on health disparity populations and increasing public trust. While academic institutions have an important role in this goal, diversifying the faculty ranks has been the least successful of all diversity initiatives. The overall goal of the UC San Diego Faculty Development Program in Infectious Diseases (FDP-ID) termed Raising Advancement and Parity for Infectious Disease Researchers (RAPID) is to enhance the diversity of the biomedical research workforce. The UC San Diego RAPID program will provide effective mentorship, courses to develop critical academic skills and experiences to enhance success of research programs focused on infectious diseases and success in obtaining extramural funding. RAPID will recruit underrepresented early career academics including junior faculty and postdoctoral fellows that have secured an initial faculty position from a national pool to participate in professional and research development activities in a visiting scholar program at UC San Diego. The RAPID program is directed by two principal investigators (PIs) and three co-investigators (co-Is) from the UC San Diego School of Medicine with extensive experience in mentoring and training postdoctoral fellows, residents and junior faculty and success in creating and implementing career development and mentoring programs specifically for underrepresented early career academics. The PIs / co-Is have successfully led extramurally-funded training programs; four of the five PIs are actively engaged in NIH-sponsored infectious diseases research; four of the PIs are from backgrounds underrepresented in the biomedical workforce. The specific objectives of the UCSD RAPID program are to enhance the diversity of the biomedical workforce by providing early career academics from underrepresented racial / ethnic, women and disabled groups with critical academic skills to enhance their success in developing research programs focused on infectious diseases. We propose three specific aims. Aim 1. To increase the diversity of the biomedical workforce by recruiting underrepresented early career academics (junior faculty and transitioning postdoctoral fellows) from local and national pools who have infectious diseases scientific expertise aligned with those of our research mentors. Aim 2. To enhance professional skill development and effective mentorship of participants by utilizing evidence-based strategies including a faculty research and career advancement plan, mentoring teams and by improving knowledge and skills in various professional development areas important for research success. Aim 3. To promote research training and research self- efficacy of early career academics in infectious diseases research knowledge, skills and strategies through immersion in activities in the mentees area of interest in infectious disease. RAPID includes PIs /co-Is with extensive experience in faculty and URM trainee development, a strong cohort of UC San Diego senior faculty researchers and career mentors from underrepresented backgrounds.