The overall goal of the Training Education and Mentoring in Science program (TEAM-Science) is to train graduate students from underrepresented racial and ethnic minority (URM) groups and students with disabilities (SWD) to conduct cutting-edge research as members and future leaders of the biomedical, behavioral and clinical research (BBCR) workforce while using TEAM-Science and UW-Madison as a ?living laboratory? to develop, evaluate, implement and disseminate theoretically-informed evidence-based practices to achieve this goal. Through its structured career development program TEAM-Science provides training not otherwise available at UW-Madison to bolster the engagement and career persistence of URMs and SWDs in BBCR careers. This proposed renewal reflects refinement of the core elements of TEAM-Science over the past 7 years (4 years in the first cycle and 3 years of the current cycle), comprising our structured career development and community of practice approach. In addition, new curricular content reflects: 1) evolving research on training future scientists and diversifying the scientific workforce; 2) the call to transform traditional approaches to graduate student training and mentoring; 3) contemporary scientific challenges including reproducibility and transparency, big data, and team science; and 4) responses to program evaluative feedback.
The specific aims of this new 5-year cycle are:
Specific Aim 1. Support 30 URM or SWD graduate students for 2 consecutive years each during their doctoral training in participating BBCR programs: 10 in years 1&2 of the funding cycle, 10 in year 3&4 of the funding cycle, and 10 in years 5&6 of the funding cycle including carryover; so that by the end of the funding cycle, 95% of these students will remain in or have earned a PhD, increasing the numbers of URM students in the participating graduate programs by at least 25% and SWD by as much as 100%.
Specific Aim 2. Develop and evaluate a formal professional development curriculum for students with content that addresses TEAM-Science's 8 Research Career Competencies; contributors to research career success and cultural navigation including research and coping self-efficacy, values affirmation, a growth mindset, and dispelling the constraints of cultural bias; contemporary scientific challenges including reproducibility and transparency, big data, and team science; and the extant opportunities for both research intensive or research related scientific career options.
Specific Aim 3. Enhance training for TEAM-Science research mentors to help them become bias literate, break the bias habit, and learn culturally responsive mentoring. TEAM-Science remains part of a comprehensive, organizational change approach to increasing scientific workforce diversity with multi-level (i.e. individual and institutional) interventions that are iteratively evaluated and strategically disseminated.

Public Health Relevance

If the U.S. is to maintain its economic vitality in a world that is increasingly knowledge-based, it cannot afford to lose the contribution to the biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research enterprise of any talented mind. This proposal engages faculty mentors conducting cutting-edge research in a theoretically-informed approach to support the successful career persistence of graduate students who have historically been underrepresented in these research fields.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Type
Education Projects (R25)
Project #
5R25GM083252-13
Application #
9904661
Study Section
NIGMS Initial Review Group (TWD)
Program Officer
Ravichandran, Veerasamy
Project Start
2008-04-11
Project End
2022-03-31
Budget Start
2020-04-01
Budget End
2021-03-31
Support Year
13
Fiscal Year
2020
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Wisconsin Madison
Department
Internal Medicine/Medicine
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
161202122
City
Madison
State
WI
Country
United States
Zip Code
53715
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