Institutional Career Development

在突破性的技术创新的推动下，健康研究正在经历戏剧性的变化 大数据的可用性不断提高，跨学科团队科学日益突出， 健康研究基金。这个新的世界要求成功的研究人员拥有一个充满活力和不断发展的 掌握广泛的学科，必须是热心的合作者和终身学习者。在波士顿 我们精心设计了一项创新的职业发展计划，以满足这些需求和 我们要求提供资金来支持这一创新和综合的计划。我们的愿景包括两个具体的 目标如下：1.建立提供持续全面指导和职业生涯的系统 从博士后培训到教职初期对学者的发展支持2.预期 学者为未来在研究中取得成功而需要的技能，并以持续的方式提供这些技能 在课程中。 在BU及其附属机构，有广泛的研究范围，丰富和多样化的现有培训 课程，全面的课程，大量有成就和投入的导师，以及 基础科学家、临床医生和临床科学家之间的合作。在特殊的机构优势中 促进初级教师发展的是充满活力的教师发展计划、试点奖励计划和 致力于核心资源和尖端技术。 该计划针对的是我们K社区的调查人员。它包括所有参加K课程的初级教职员工： KL2学者、NIH K补助金获得者和获得其他职业发展奖(包括奖项)的初级教职员工 由机构基金提供)。它还包括博士后研究员。我们职业发展的一个主要目标 该计划旨在为学者在其职业生涯的整个过程中提供支持。对于初级教职员工而言， 职业发展支持，包括那些开始KL2支持的人，我们已经开发了Prime计划 (通向研究独立和卓越导师之路)计划。这个项目提供指导， 互动教学，正在进行的作品审查和模拟赠款审查，以支持这些学者在 通过提交他们的第一笔科学补助金，他们的早期职业发展。我们的最终目标是创造 一批受过良好教育的翻译研究人员，他们有技能和热情为改善 我们所服务的社区的健康。

Health research is undergoing dramatic change fueled by groundbreaking technological innovations, the increasing availability of big data, growing prominence of cross-disciplinary team science and constraints on health research funding. This new world demands that successful researchers have a dynamic and evolving mastery of a broad set of disciplines and must be avid collaborators and lifelong learners. At the Boston University CTSI we have crafted an innovative career development program that addresses these needs and we request funding to support this innovative and integrated program. Our vision encompasses two specific aims as follows: 1. Build a system that provides continuous comprehensive mentoring and career development support for scholars from postdoctoral training through early faculty years 2. Anticipate the skills that scholars will need for future success in research and provide these in an ongoing fashion in the curriculum. At BU and its affiliates there is an extensive breadth of research, a wealth and diversity of existing training programs, a comprehensive curriculum, an abundance of accomplished and invested mentors, and close collaborations between basic scientists and clinicians and clinical scientists. Among special institutional strengths that foster the development of junior faculty are a vibrant faculty development program, pilot award program, and commitment to core resources and cutting-edge technologies. The program is targeted to our K community of investigators. It includes all junior faculty who are in K programs: KL2 scholars, NIH K grant recipients and junior faculty with other career development awards (including awards provided by institutional funds). It also includes postdoctoral fellows. A major goal of our career development program is to provide support to scholars across the continuum of their careers. For junior faculty with career development support including those beginning KL2 support, we have developed the PRIME Program (Pathway to Research Independence and Mentoring Excellence) program. This program provides mentoring, interactive instruction, reviews of works in progress and mock grant reviews to support these scholars during their early career development through submission of their first scientific grants. Our ultimate goal is to create a cadre of well-educated translational researchers who have the skills and passion to contribute to improving the health of the communities we serve.