Cyber Mentors: A Sustainable Model for Developing Minority HIV Researchers

网络导师：培养少数族裔艾滋病毒研究人员的可持续模式

• 批准号: 7499803
• 负责人: JOHN R ANDERSON
• 金额: $ 26.62万
• 依托单位: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-05-01 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7499803
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; AIDS/HIV problem; Address; Applications Grants; Area; Arts; Computer software; Data Collection; Development; Development Plans; Distance Learning; Educational workshop; Electronic Mail; Ensure; Ethnic group; Feedback; Funding; Funding Mechanisms; Goals; Grant; HIV; Individual; Knowledge; Learning; Mentors; Mentorship; Minority; Modeling; Online Systems; Peer Review; Prevention Research; Process Assessment; Program Sustainability; Recruitment Activity; Relative (related person); Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Proposals; Resources; Score; Self Assessment; Series; Support of Research; System; Technology; Telephone; United States National Institutes of Health; Writing; career; cohort; concept; design; innovation; interest; programs; racial and ethnic; research study; response; skills; socioeconomics; symposium; volunteer

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): PROJECT SUMMARY Cyber Mentors: A Sustainable Model for Developing Minority HIV Researchers The Cyber Mentors: A Sustainable Model for Developing Minority HIV Researchers project is designed to develop an innovative and sustainable research mentorship program to prepare promising researchers who have not yet received R01 level funding, and who are either from underrepresented groups and/or are interested in HIV/AIDS research with racial and ethnic groups that are overrepresented with HIV/AIDS, to develop successful independent careers in HIV/AIDS prevention research. The program will utilize state of the art distance learning technologies to prepare mentees to submit a high quality NIH grant application and to facilitate developing professional relationships with senior-level mentors to support their research efforts. Three cohorts of 15 mentee/mentor pairs will participate in the two-year mentorship program over the course of three years. The focus of the third and final cohort, which will begin in Year 3 and continue after the end of the funding period, will be on demonstrating the sustainability of the program. The Cyber Mentors program will match mentees with volunteer mentors who are leaders in the field of HIV/AIDS, research who have a track record of receiving NIH-supported R01 grants. One-on-one mentoring, which will take place via phone, email, and face-to-face meetings, will have two general goals: 1) developing and implementing a career development plan focused on building the strengths of the mentee to conduct independent research, and 2) developing and submitting a high quality research funding application to NIH. Mentee/mentor pairs will be provided with up to $5,000 to support research or career development activities (e.g., preliminary data collection, attending conferences and workshops, purchasing needed research hardware and software etc.). In addition to one-on-one mentoring, mentees will participate in a sequenced series of online career development seminars and small group discussions. Seminars will cover various research, methodology, and administrative topics relevant to research careers. At bimonthly small group workshops, mentees will then apply the concepts and skills learned in the seminars into developing their own proposals. Mentees will also participate in two mock peer reviews where their grant applications will be reviewed by outside experts and scored, with feedback in these mock sessions mimicking NIH review. Mentees will revise their proposals in response to the mock review and resubmit the revised proposal for a second round of mock review. By the end of the two-year mentorship period, mentees in the Cyber Mentors program will: (1) assess their capacity to submit a high-quality grant application and their capacity to conduct a successful career as an HIV/AIDS researcher; (2) develop and implement a career development plan to address relative weaknesses identified during the self-assessment process; (3) identify an NIH funding mechanism through which they will apply for funding; and, (4) draft a high-quality research proposal to be submitted to NIH in the area of HIV/AIDS prevention with racial and ethnic groups that are overrepresented with HIV/AIDS.

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): PROJECT SUMMARY Cyber​​ Mentors: A Sustainable Model for Developing Minority HIV Researchers The Cyber​​ Mentors: A Sustainable Model for Developing Minority HIV Researchers project is designed to develop an innovative and sustainable research mentorship program to prepare promising researchers who have not yet received R01 level funding, and who are either from underrepresented groups and/or are interested in HIV/AIDS research with racial and ethnic groups that are艾滋病毒/艾滋病的代表性过多，以发展艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防研究的成功独立职业。该计划将利用最先进的距离学习技术来准备受训者提交高质量的NIH赠款应用程序，并促进与高级导师建立专业关系，以支持他们的研究工作。在三年的时间里，有3个同类的15名受训/导师对将参加为期两年的指导计划。第三个也是最后一个队列的重点将在第3年开始，并在资金结束后继续进行，将展示该计划的可持续性。网络导师计划将与志愿导师匹配志愿者，他们是艾滋病毒/艾滋病领域的领导者，他们的研究具有获得NIH支持的R01赠款的记录。一对一的指导将通过电话，电子邮件和面对面的会议进行，将有两个一般目标：1）制定和实施职业发展计划，重点是建立受训者进行独立研究的优势，以及2）开发和提交NIH的高质量研究资金申请。指导者/导师对将提供多达5,000美元，以支持研究或职业发展活动（例如，初步数据收集，参加会议和研讨会，购买所需的研究硬件和软件等）。除了一对一的指导外，受训者还将参加一系列的在线职业发展研讨会和小组讨论。研讨会将涵盖与研究职业相关的各种研究，方法论和行政主题。在双月小组研讨会上，受训者将应用研讨会中学到的概念和技能来制定自己的建议。受训者还将参加两次模拟同行评论，在这些评论中，他们的赠款申请将由外部专家进行审查并得分，并在这些模拟会议上模仿NIH评论中的反馈。受训者将对模拟审查的响应进行修改，并重新提交修订后的建议，以进行第二轮模拟审查。到为期两年的指导期结束时，网络导师计划中的受训者将：（1）评估他们提交高质量赠款申请的能力，以及他们从事艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究员的成功职业的能力； （2）制定并实施职业发展计划，以解决自我评估过程中确定的相对弱点； （3）确定他们将申请资金的NIH资金机制； （4）草拟了一项高质量的研究建议，将在艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防领域提交给NIH，并与艾滋病毒/艾滋病相比的种族和族裔群体。