Education

教育办公室为平均400名受训者提供研讨会、项目和个性化机会，其中包括博士后、访问学者和研究人员；临床研究员和医学生；研究生;以及博士后和技术研究员。这些活动通常包括：公开演讲讲习班、工作面试、写作和编辑服务、赠款和研究部门观察员、职业介绍和咨询、通过NICHD成为有效科学家课程为博士后和技能讲习班提供的教学机会以及管理方案。每年春天都会为研究员和研究生举办100人的年度务虚会，讨论科学发展和职业，其中包括研究员演讲和每位与会者的海报演讲。该项目由一个学生指导委员会开发和运营。

The Office of Education delivers workshops, programs, and individualized opportunities to a population averaging 400 trainees, including postdoctoral, visiting, and research fellows; clinical fellows and medical students; graduate students; and postbaccalaureate and technical fellows. The activities include, typically: public speaking workshops, job interviewing, writing and editorial services, grantsmanship and study section observerships, career presentations and counseling, teaching opportunities through the NICHD Becoming an Effective Scientist course for postbacs and skills workshops, and management programs. An annual retreat for fellows and graduate students is held for 100 people each spring to address scientific developments and careers, which includes fellow presentations and a poster presentation by each attendee. The program is developed and run by a fellow-student steering committee. To emphasize the importance of mentoring, Guidelines to Support the Training Relationship between Postdoctoral IRTAS, Visiting Fellows, and Clinical Fellows and Their Mentors were approved and are made available to prospective and new trainees. The new intramural website also offers guidance on how to select a mentor. In May 2008, the Division of Intramural Research gave its first two Mentor of the Year awards, one to an investigator, Richard J. Maraia MD, and another to a fellow, Itai Tzchori PhD, in recognition of the importance of sustained, high-quality mentoring to the development of scientists. An orientation DVD was also created, focusing on postbac and summer students, that addresses how to make the most of a laboratory experience at the NIH. The DVD and office publications capitalize on the creative talents of fellows in the IT division. In FY2008, the first two participants in the graduate student exchange with Peking University Health Science Center arrived; four new students will join the institute in fall 2008. The graduate exchange with the Chinese University of Hong Kong was renewed for a second five-year period. The first meeting of exchange program mentors was held, evaluation systems were formalized, and the first DIR graduate student research seminar was held in spring. Increasingly, fellows are applying for K awards and outside funding, for which editorial and grants coaching is available, as part of a personalized approach to supporting intramural trainees needs. In 2008 an NICHD postdoc received one of six new Diversity Fellowships. The institute had a record number of FARE award recipients. A formalized program of extramural details for fellows was established to support those with an interest in HSA and SRA careers, and several placements were supported in NICHD, with one in NCI. At least one career and one educational program with a particular emphasis on the needs of clinical fellows is scheduled. The average of all programs for which formal evaluations are conducted was, at time of writing, 4.43 on a 5-point scale. A system of feedback from institute postdoctoral and clinical and postbac representatives ensures that the office is responsive to trainee needs, which also include personal guidance, support, and referrals.