UIC K12 Independent Clinical Vision Scientist Development Program

描述（由申请人提供）：这是伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校（UIC）关于建立UIC- nei K12/独立临床医生视觉科学家（ICVS）发展计划的提案。该计划采用需求评估方法，以确定已经证明成为独立临床科学家所需技能的临床医生实现独立性所面临的障碍，并设计了K12培训计划来解决这些需求。该计划认识到，在优秀导师的指导下，沉浸在研究中是研究者向独立过渡的关键因素。因此，本系建议开设K-12课程，以指导已表现出准备投入研究项目的学者。UIC-NEI K12/独立临床视觉科学家（ICVS）发展计划旨在提供一个学术丰富和支持性的环境，使合格的早期临床视觉科学家能够参与结构化和有指导的学习体验，从而促进职业发展，使学员成为独立的科学家。该计划有两个目标：目标一是建立公立大学与公共卫生机构的伙伴关系，培养独立的临床视力科学家（ICVS）；目标二：为UIC-NEI K12/ICVS学者提供科学的发展、真诚的指导和专业的发展，并确保他们向独立过渡。这些目标的实现将使UIC-NEI K12/ICVS发展计划的学者能够独立转型，成为全国视力健康研究的领导者，并成为新一代视力健康研究人员的教育者、导师和榜样。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal from at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to establish the UIC-NEI K12/Independent Clinician Vision Scientist (ICVS) Development Program. The proposed program takes a needs-assessment approach to identify the barriers to achieving independence that confronts clinicians who have demonstrated the skills needed to become independent clinician scientists and designs a K12 training program to address those needs. The program recognizes that immersion in research under the guidance of excellent mentors is a key ingredient for investigator transition to independence. Therefore, the Department proposes the K-12 curriculum for mentoring scholars who have demonstrated readiness to be immersed in a research project. UIC-NEI K12/Independent Clinician Vision Scientist (ICVS) Development Program aims to provide an academically-rich and supportive environment to enable qualified early-stage clinician vision scientists to engage in a structured and mentored learning experience that will facilitate career advancement and enable trainees to become independent scientists. The program has two goals: Goal I is to establish a public university-public health agency partnership to train independent clinician vision scientists (ICVS); Goal II is to provide scientific development, authentic mentorship and professional development of the UIC-NEI K12/ICVS scholars and ensure their transition to independence. Achievement of these goals will enable UIC-NEI K12/ICVS Development Program scholars to transition to independence become national leaders in vision health research, and to become the educators, mentors, and role models for a new generation of vision health researchers. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) proposes to establish the UIC-NEI K12/ICVS Development Program. The program aims to provide an academically-rich and supportive environment that will give early -stage clinician vision scientists a mentored learning experience that will facilitate their career advancement and to become independent scientists.