The Wake Forest School of Medicine Training in Research Affecting Child-Health (TRAC) Program

维克森林医学院影响儿童健康研究培训 (TRAC) 计划

基本信息

批准号：
10628835
负责人：
TanYa M. Gwathmey
金额：
$ 16.2万
依托单位：
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2023-09-01 至 2028-06-30
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10628835
关键词：
Adult Affect Area Behavioral Bioinformatics Budgets Career Choice Child Child Development Child Health Child Support Child Welfare Childhood Clinical Clinical Research Collaborations Communities Creativeness Critical Thinking Data Scientist Development Education Educational Status Educational process of instructing Environment Epidemiologist Epidemiology Exercise Exposure to Extramural Activities Faculty Fostering Funding Goals Growth Health Health system Heart Atrium Historically Black Colleges and Universities Individual Institution Laboratories Learning Life Cycle Stages Manuscripts Medical Students Mentors Mentorship Minority-Serving Institution Mission Modeling National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Occupations Ownership Participant Pediatric Research Peer Review Physicians Population Positioning Attribute Productivity Publications Recording of previous events Reduce health disparities Research Research Design Research Methodology Research Personnel Research Project Grants Research Training Resources Science Scientist Social Processes Societies Training Training Programs United States National Institutes of Health Universities Work career child services collaborative environment design education research empowerment experience faculty mentor forest graduate student health disparity health equity health inequalities innovation interest medical schools meetings next generation novel nutrition patient engagement pediatric department pediatrician peer peer coaching pre-clinical programs recruit reproductive skills skills training success symposium training opportunity undergraduate student

项目摘要

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Despite enormous growth in research related to child health and development, there is a significant lag in corresponding growth of this workforce, especially for underrepresented individuals. There remains a dearth of trainees entering into and remaining in these careers. Many pediatricians have limited exposure to research during their training. Those who have received formal research training—ranging from short-term “boot camps” to master’s programs—or who work in a laboratory often are taught how to perform certain research skills (e.g., clinical study design) but do not know how to develop a rigorous research question. Overly specialized research training and lack of funding and resources limit the ability to adapt to a changing environment that is increasingly collaborative. Correspondingly, child health research funding has lagged and is disproportionate to funding for adult-focused research; only 10% of the NIH budget supports child health research (despite that 22% of the US population are children). Thus, there is a need to train individuals in a broad array of pediatric-specific research skills across diverse domains of child health and development in order to optimize their match quality (i.e., aligning their career choice with who they are and their skills and interests) to promote their long-term success. The Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM) Training in Research Affecting Child Health (TRAC) Program will provide a novel child health and development research training opportunity across the spectrum of educational levels (undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, residents, and fellows). TRAC will foster acquisition of lasting child health-related research skills with an emphasis on independence and critical thinking. Modeled after a WFUSM Department of Pediatrics pilot program, and leveraging existing WFUSM training programs, TRAC will support novel, horizontal peer-to-peer mentorship through an immersive eight-week pediatric-specific skills course over the summer combined with the development and implementation of collaborative research projects with guidance from faculty mentors that will continue throughout the following academic year so participants can see their project to completion. This will culminate in abstract submissions to the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting the following spring and submission of a first-authored manuscript. This approach will provide an important sense of ownership and accomplishment to further empower the participants and generate excitement to enter the field of child health and development. TRAC will therefore take advantage of a broad educational focus, unique mentorship, and novel participant empowerment to optimize match quality in order to help participants identify and develop their strengths and interests to promote lasting interest in research related to child health and development and enhance the diversity of the research workforce involved in NICHD mission-focused research.

项目概要/摘要尽管与儿童健康和发展相关的研究取得了巨大进展，但仍存在明显滞后劳动力的相应增长，尤其是代表性不足的个人。许多进入并继续从事这些职业的学员对研究的接触有限。那些接受过正式研究培训（包括短期“训练营”）的人。硕士课程，或者在实验室工作的人经常被教导如何执行某些研究技能（例如，临床研究设计），但不知道如何制定严格的研究问题。培训以及缺乏资金和资源限制了适应日益变化的环境的能力相应地，儿童健康研究经费滞后且与儿童健康研究经费不成比例。以成人为重点的研究；只有 10% 的 NIH 预算支持儿童健康研究（尽管美国有 22% 的预算）因此，需要对个人进行广泛的儿科特定培训。儿童健康和发展不同领域的研究技能，以优化其匹配质量（即，使他们的职业选择与他们的身份、技能和兴趣相一致），以促进他们的维克森林大学医学院 (WFUSM) 的研究影响培训。儿童健康（TRAC）计划将提供新颖的儿童健康和发展研究培训机会跨越各个教育层次（本科生、研究生、医学生、住院医师和 TRAC 将促进获得持久的儿童健康相关研究技能，重点是独立性和批判性思维以 WFUSM 儿科试点计划为蓝本，以及利用现有的 WFUSM 培训计划，TRAC 将支持新颖的横向同伴指导通过夏季为期八周的沉浸式儿科特定技能课程，并结合在导师指导下开发和实施合作研究项目，这些项目将持续到下一学年，以便参与者能够看到他们的项目完成。最终在次年春季向儿科学术协会年会提交摘要提交第一作者的稿件将提供一种重要的主人翁意识和归属感。进一步增强参与者的能力并激发他们进入儿童健康领域的热情因此，TRAC 将利用广泛的教育重点、独特的指导和发展。新颖的能力可以优化比赛质量，以帮助识别和发展他们的能力促进对儿童健康和发展相关研究的持久兴趣的优势和兴趣，提高参与 NICHD 以任务为中心的研究的研究人员的多样性。