NEWS & EVENTS
October
1
-
2
,
2018
Bethesda, MD
Description
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) convened a workshop on October 1 and 2, 2018 to investigate short-term research training programs in heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders for clinicians and PhDs. A multidisciplinary working group met to address the following objectives:
- To identify best principles in developing short-term training programs with the goal of making them cost-effective and of long-term benefit to the biomedical research enterprise with consideration of:
- The career stage of the trainees
- The skills and knowledge to be taught
- The duration of the program
- The balance of experiential to passive learning
- To explore novel and emerging approaches such as the use of online resources and mobile communication to enhance the effectiveness of short-term training programs for retention and for further development of relevant skills
- To identify core elements for the evaluation of short-term training programs that will facilitate expeditious, continuous, and long-term improvement
- To explore potential assets that can be leveraged for short-term training such as partnerships with professional societies or training done in tandem with their annual meetings
- To identify short-term training opportunities that could complement existing programs supported by NHLBI to develop and sustain a robust workforce devoted to the investigation of cardiovascular, pulmonary, and blood diseases and sleep disorders