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Neuroscience Training in Challenging Times: An Opportunity to Address Long-Standing Problems and Move Forward: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Neuroscience Training in Challenging Times: An Opportunity to Address Long-Standing Problems and Move Forward: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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Moderated by Balice-Gordon, the panelists then considered how the field might effectively address these problems using insights from neuroscientific research, harnessing the energy of the young to bring about change, evolving training paradigms, establishing new benchmarks of success, and working collaboratively with institutional leadership to drive the changes needed within academia and the overall scientific culture. Exploring the Challenges Highlighted by the Global Pandemic, Racial Injustice, and Gender Inequity The challenges that have arisen over the past year -- a global pandemic and the social reckoning regarding racial injustice and white supremacy -- have created difficulties for neuroscientists across the entire training spectrum, said Cristin
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"You can't talk about 2020 without looking at the racial and social justice issues and the incredible need for institutional and cultural change within academia," he said. Using Insights from Science to Address Stressors and Change the Culture of Science Toward Greater Inclusivity The past year undoubtedly has been stressful for all sectors of society, including scientists at all career stages.
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As someone who moved from a traditional academic position to industry and now into a highly entrepreneurial space, she agreed that nonlinearity and breadth amplify the kinds of science one can do and the impact of that science across all sectors of society. Defining and Establishing New Benchmarks of Success To change training paradigms, Allsop advocated for redefining the benchmarks of success.
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Institutional Leadership in Changing the Training Paradigm As moderator of the first panel, Balice-Gordon asked the panelists for their thoughts on what leaders at their institutions could do to partner with scientists at different career stages to improve training and inclusion, redefine benchmarks of success, and support cultural change. For postdocs, Gonzales suggested changing the training paradigm to give them more breadth by incorporating standards that go beyond papers, benchwork, and the rigor of their science to include whether they can mentor and manage people.
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When the pandemic forced the closure of MCAT testing centers, medical schools had to reassess how they evaluate applicants, providing new opportunities to address a long-standing problem, said Martin. Broadening Training and Mentorship Paradigms to Be More Responsive to Emerging Challenges The pandemic has also provided lessons about training and mentoring, including mentoring people throughout their careers, said Brose.
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Team science has long been the dominant paradigm in clinical science, he said, and is now appreciated for its ability to develop critical basic science resources and answer basic science questions that are beyond the bandwidth of an individual lab. Martin emphasized the broad scope of neuroscience, which comprises not just neurobiology but also psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery, as well as learnings from social scientists who study human behavior.
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basic scientists who recognize a potential application to a disease and pivot to developing a possible therapeutic or diagnostic rather than a publication in a scientific journal. Tessier-Lavigne noted that interdisciplinary approaches are highly valued in the neurosciences, yet while Stanford University and other institutions have pushed hard to break down siloes between disciplines by creating interdisciplinary institutes and programs, changing the culture of individual departments to function effectively across disciplines has been a slow process.
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) through the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Eye Institute, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute on Aging, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, and NIH BRAIN Initiative; Department of Veterans Affairs (36C24E20C0009)
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