Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0320, USA.
Acad Med. 2010 Mar;85(3):484-9. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181cccd12.
The creation of the Clinical Translational Science Awards for academic health sciences campuses in 2006 was implicitly accompanied by a call for a new paradigm of faculty development and mentoring to train the next generation of researchers and leaders in this new approach to research. Effective mentoring is critical to help early-career investigators become successful, independent researchers, and a new approach to mentoring is vital to recruit, advance, and retain fellows and junior faculty engaged in clinical and translational research. However, in addition to the many rewards of mentoring, there are numerous substantive barriers to effective mentoring. These barriers include a lack of training in how to be a mentor, lack of time and structural and financial support for mentoring, and competing personal, administrative, and clinical demands. The authors describe an innovative program, the University of California, San Francisco Mentor Development Program (MDP), established in 2006 and designed to train midcareer academic health sciences researchers to be more effective as clinical and translational research mentors. Using a framework for presenting innovations in academic research, they present the rationale, design, implementation, and mechanisms being used to evaluate and sustain the MDP. Specific details of the objectives and content of the MDP sessions are provided as well as evaluation criteria and a link to specific curriculum materials.
2006 年，学术健康科学领域的临床转化科学奖的设立，隐含着对一种新的教师发展和指导模式的呼吁，以培养新一代研究人员和领导者，采用这种新的研究方法。有效的指导对于帮助早期职业研究人员成为成功的独立研究人员至关重要，而一种新的指导方法对于招募、提升和留住从事临床和转化研究的研究员和初级教员也是至关重要的。然而，除了指导带来的许多回报外，有效的指导还存在许多实质性的障碍。这些障碍包括缺乏指导技能的培训、缺乏指导的时间以及结构和财务支持，以及个人、行政和临床需求之间的竞争。作者描述了一个创新的项目，即加州大学旧金山分校导师发展计划（MDP），该计划成立于 2006 年，旨在培训中年学术健康科学研究人员，使其在临床和转化研究指导方面更加高效。他们使用了一个介绍学术研究创新的框架，介绍了 MDP 的原理、设计、实施以及用于评估和维持 MDP 的机制。提供了 MDP 会议的具体目标和内容、评估标准以及具体课程材料的链接。
