Building a Diverse Biomedical Workforce Through Communication Across Difference

通过跨差异沟通建立多元化的生物医学劳动力队伍

• 批准号: 10438745
• 负责人: Carrie A. Cameron
• 金额: $ 23.5万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-18 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10438745
• 关键词: Address; Area; Biomedical Research; Career Mobility; Communication; Communication Research; Control Groups; Development; Dimensions; Distal; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational workshop; Environment; Face; Future; Goals; Growth; Health; Individual; Intention; Intervention; Knowledge; Lead; Learning; Linguistics; Link; Measures; Mediating; Mentors; Methods; Modeling; Outcome; Participant; Personal Communication; Play; Postdoctoral Fellow; Process; Psychological Models; Publications; Randomized Controlled Trials; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Role; Scientist; Series; Students; Surveys; Testing; Underrepresented Populations; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; base; broadening participation research; career; design; dyadic interaction; effective intervention; evidence base; experimental group; flexibility; follow-up; graduate student; innovation; interest; member; predictive modeling; programs; psychologic; racial and ethnic; recruit; skills; social influence; social relationships; socioeconomics; student mentoring; success; summer student; time use; undergraduate student

ABSTRACT The biomedical research workforce faces steep declines in recruitment and retention of under-represented researchers, from undergraduate study to the senior professoriate, and an escalating attrition of those at the PhD-level as they are nearing potential careers as independent investigators (Fuhrmann, Halme et al. 2011). To address these challenges, evidence-based mechanisms that enhance mentoring, networking, and career transitions are needed, but the specific mechanisms that make them effective are still unclear. Elucidating these mechanisms is critical to future efforts to diversify and retain the biomedical research workforce. To that end, our objective is to test a predictive model of the influence of skills for communicating across difference (CAD) on long-term outcomes for both students and their junior mentors (graduate students and postdocs). Our central hypothesis is that acquiring CAD skills will influence distal outcomes for diverse trainees' career persistence and network growth, as well as junior mentors' subsequent engagement in mentoring of diverse trainees, and can be modeled using an adapted version of the Tripartite Integration Model of Social Influence (TIMSI). Our specific aims are to measure effects of a CAD workshop series in a longitudinal, randomized controlled trial of dyads of summer students and their matched junior mentors, with additional group-effects analysis for under-represented groups; 2) to identify causal relationships of the variables and create 2 related TIMSI-based models: one for career intention outcomes and one for mentoring intention outcomes; and 3) to assess long-term impact of CAD skills and predictive utility of the student and mentor models by tracking outcomes of known Hallmarks of Success such as completion of STEM degrees, publication, and others. By investigating the role of CAD skills, we expect to model the psychological processes by which research career persistence is strengthened for all participants, and commitment to mentoring diverse trainees is strengthened for junior mentors. Innovations of the proposed research include its unique focus on linguistic skills, the dyadic and interactional analytic approach, the analysis of psychological development processes as senior trainees become junior mentors, and the use of flexible, generative skills rather than acquired knowledge as a mechanism of change. Our long-term goal is help diversify the biomedical workforce through an approach which addresses the interactional roles of both under-represented and well-represented groups simultaneously. This research, conducted by our uniquely qualified team, directly addresses priorities outlined by the NIH National Research Mentor Network and will contribute to our understanding of mechanisms that enhance mentoring and career transition and thereby broaden participation in the biomedical workforce.

抽象的 生物医学研究人员面临招聘和保留人数急剧下降的问题 研究人员，从本科生到高级教授，以及研究人员的不断流失 博士级别，因为他们即将成为独立研究人员的潜在职业（Fuhrmann、Halme 等人，2011 年）。 为了应对这些挑战，需要加强指导、网络和职业的循证机制 转变是必要的，但使其有效的具体机制仍不清楚。阐明 这些机制对于未来生物医学研究人员队伍多元化和留住人才的努力至关重要。对此 最后，我们的目标是测试跨差异沟通技能影响的预测模型 （CAD）对学生及其初级导师（研究生和博士后）的长期成果。 我们的中心假设是，获得 CAD 技能将影响不同学员职业生涯的最终结果 坚持和网络发展，以及初级导师随后参与指导不同的人 受训者，并且可以使用社会影响力三方整合模型的改编版本进行建模 （TIMSI）。我们的具体目标是以纵向、随机的方式衡量 CAD 研讨会系列的效果 对暑期学生及其匹配的初级导师进行的对照试验，并具有额外的群体效应 对代表性不足的群体进行分析； 2）识别变量的因果关系并创建2个相关的 基于 TIMSI 的模型：一种用于职业意图结果，一种用于指导意图结果； 3) 至 通过跟踪评估 CAD 技能的长期影响以及学生和导师模型的预测效用 已知成功标志的结果，例如完成 STEM 学位、发表论文等。经过 通过调查 CAD 技能的作用，我们希望对研究职业生涯的心理过程进行建模 所有参与者的毅力得到加强，指导多样化学员的承诺得到加强 对于初级导师。拟议研究的创新之处包括其对语言技能、二元关系的独特关注 和互动分析方法，对高级学员的心理发展过程进行分析 成为初级导师，并使用灵活的、生成性的技能而不是获得的知识作为 变化机制。我们的长期目标是通过一种方法帮助生物医学劳动力多样化 它解决了代表性不足和代表性良好群体的互动角色 同时地。这项研究由我们独特的合格团队进行，直接解决概述的优先事项 由 NIH 国家研究导师网络提供，将有助于我们理解以下机制： 加强指导和职业转型，从而扩大生物医学劳动力的参与。