NIH-Funded Faculty Workshop: Mentoring Your Trainees in Scientific Communication Skills
As a mentor of a doctoral student or postdoctoral fellow in STEM research, you are invited to participate in an interactive 3-hour workshop on helping your trainees develop verbal and written scientific communication skills.
Date: Thursday, September 20, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM (Lunch will be served)
Location: Chicago Campus – exact room TBA
Please register here (Registration is limited to 20 participants)The focus will be on practical techniques and strategies that you can use in your mentoring immediately, such as:
- The mechanisms by which scientific communication skills build science identity and career commitment and how you can leverage them to your trainees’ benefit
- The role of linguistic diversity in skill development
- Understanding and addressing trainee barriers to productivity in scientific communication
- Why you should focus on getting trainees engaged in talking about research in a variety of situations
Interested workshop participants will also be given the opportunity to join the NIH-funded research study “Scientific Communication Advances Research Excellence” (GM 125640, C Cameron and S Chang, MPIs), investigating scientific communication skills as a mechanism for strengthening mentees’ commitment to research careers.
This workshop will be facilitated by Carrie Cameron, PhD, Associate Director of the Cancer Prevention Research Training Program (CPRTP) and Associate Professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Shine Chang, PhD, Ashbel Smith Professor of Epidemiology at MD Anderson and Director of the CPRTP.
Both are members of The University of Texas Kenneth I. Shine, MD, Academy of Health Science Educators and have researched and taught scientific communication skills since 2009.
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