Mentoring junior URM scientists to engage in sleep health disparities research: experience of the NYU PRIDE Institute
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- 作者：Girardin Jean-Louis
- 关键词：PRIDE ; Mentorship ; Training ; Workforce diversity ; Sleep ; Behavioral medicine
- 刊名：Sleep Medicine
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：February 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：18
- 期：Complete
- 页码：108-117
- 全文大小：795 K
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- <p id="p0010">Implementing training programs tailored to address specific needs of underrepresented minority (URM) scientists is paramount in empowering them to address sleep-related cardiovascular diseases that disproportionately burden their communities.p>
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- <p id="p0015">The specific goals of the Program to Increase Diversity (PRIDE) Institute are to: select qualified junior URM faculty with the potential to contribute towards current knowledge of translational models to reduce sleep-related cardiovascular risk; increase mentees' knowledge, skills, and motivation to pursue a career in implementation of translational behavioral sciences; provide continuous mentorship to mentees and facilitate achievement of career independence; and dispense individualized coaching in acquiring proficiency in grant writing and understanding of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) review process.p>
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- <p id="p0020">Overall, the institute accomplished its main goal: to build an infrastructure enabling junior URM faculty to network with one another as well as with senior investigators, serving as role models, in a supportive academic environment.p>
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- <p id="p0025">Exposure to the PRIDE Institute enables junior URM faculty to develop important research and leadership skills to compete nationally for funding to support their academic career.p>