Training in Education and Critical Research Skills

描述（由申请人提供）：这是我们的申请重新提交，以建立教育和关键研究技能（TEACRS）计划在塔夫茨大学的培训，以响应机构研究和学术职业发展奖励计划。我们的计划是基于对大学教师的需要，他们准备迎接年轻助理教授追求他们的第一个独立职位所面临的多重挑战。我们将为我们的博士后学员提供他们将需要通过整合三个培训组成部分在学术研究环境中取得成功的职业技能：严格的实验室研究;指导教学经验;和职业发展技能。通过与罗克斯伯里社区学院和波士顿马萨诸塞州大学这两个当地少数民族服务机构合作，我们的学员还将获得更多的知识和对多样性问题的敏感性，并为少数民族服务机构提供丰富的课程材料。我们的42名教师致力于卓越的研究，并具有良好的培训记录。将向受训人员提供以多种生物医学问题为重点的研究机会，特别强调基本生物学问题、癌症、神经科学和传染病。研究委员会和研究顾问将监测研究方面的进展和职业发展。教学部分利用讲习班、讨论小组和辅导，使受训者能够在少数群体服务机构中制定和讲授自己设计的课程。一系列职业建设研讨会，沿着检查点，提供指导和建设性的反馈，完善了该计划。我们的目标是培养未来的学术科学领导者。大学教师必须发展独立的研究计划，这项活动需要创造性思维，高智力，出色的口头和书面交流能力以及相当的实验技能。这些活动必须持续下去，而教师参与课堂教学，在各种委员会和指导学员服务。成功还需要人际关系、预算和时间管理方面的额外技能。TEACRS计划将为学员提供竞争学术职位所需的研究组合，以及博士后研究员在进入学术生涯时面临挑战所需的技能。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a resubmission of our application to establish the Training in Education and Critical Research Skills (TEACRS) Program at Tufts University in response to the Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award Program. Our program is based on the need for university faculty that are prepared to meet the multiple challenges faced by young Assistant Professors pursuing their first independent position. We will provide our postdoctoral trainees with the career skills they will need to succeed in an academic research environment by integrating three training components: rigorous bench research; mentored teaching experience; and career development skills. By partnering with two local minority serving institutions, Roxbury Community College and the University of Massachusetts, Boston, our trainees will also acquire a greater knowledge and sensitivity to diversity issues and provide enriched course material to institutions serving a minority population. Our faculty of 42 is committed to research excellence and has a strong training record. Research opportunities focused on multiple biomedical problems with special emphasis on basic biological problems, cancer, neuroscience and infectious disease will be available to trainees. Research committees and research advisors will monitor progress and career development with respect to research. The teaching component uses workshops, discussion groups and tutorials to prepare trainees to develop and present a course of their own design at one of the minority serving institutions. A series of career building workshops, along with checkpoints that provide mentoring and constructive feedback round out the program. Our goal is to produce the academic scientific leaders of the future. University faculty must develop independent research programs, an activity that requires creative thought, high intellectual capacity, outstanding facility with oral and written communication and considerable experimental skill. These activities must be sustained while faculty participate in classroom teaching, serve on a variety of committees and mentor trainees. Success also requires additional skills in interpersonal relations, budgeting and time management. The TEACRS program will provide trainees with the research portfolio needed to compete for academic positions and the skill set that postdoctoral fellows need to meet the challenges they will face as they enter academic careers.