research career mentoring in communication sciences & disorders during a period of species...
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Research Career MentoringResearch Career Mentoring in Communication Sciences & Disorders in Communication Sciences & DisordersDuring a Period of Species EndangermentDuring a Period of Species Endangerment
Christopher A. Moore, Ph.D.Professor and Chair
University of Washington
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Fresno Kangaroo Rat
Manatee
Galapagos Tortoise
Indian Tiger
Least Tern
Kimodo Dragon
Consideration of CSD Mentoring & Training Using an Endangered Species Model
Western Lowland Gorilla
Horned Puffin
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Threats Can Present Opportunities
• There are administrative opportunities to create a research-centric program - including doctoral research training
• There are comparatively few programs providing sustainable academic research training in CSD.
• The opportunities for new or rising CSD programs are relatively rich compared to more densely populated disciplines (e.g., chemistry).
• An investment of 14 faculty positions can anchor a new program.• Students, demand for graduates, and career paths are all in
place.• NIDCD support is unparalleled.
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Identification of a Species as Endangered
For most species, the problems and solutions are complex interactions of multiple factors.
• Recruitment• Retention• Training
• Propagation• Nurturing
• Survival
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Identification of a Species as Endangered
• Propagation rate is exceeded by mortality• Annual shortfall of new PhDs in CSD is about
100 with respect to faculty openings.
Even assuming that all new PhDs go into academic research, the shortfall is dire.
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Identification of a Species as Endangered
• Numbers alone will not perpetuate the discipline. The propagation of CSD as a discipline depends on a healthy population of academic researchers.
• Distinct from master clinicians or accomplished teachers, these researchers provide the foundation for new knowledge in treatment and advanced instruction.
• Who’s tending the pipeline?
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Identification of a Species as Endangered
• The less-quantifiable, far more insidious threat – degradation of research training• Responding to increasing need, faculty are increasingly
hired with lower levels of research training experience (post-docs are rare in CDS)
• Teaching loads rise with shortages, reducing time allocated to research training
• It’s not too late for junior faculty.• Formalized continued mentorship (local or external)• Formalized expectations, including continued
training, as needed
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Optimizing Habitat
• How can academic research programs improve the recruitment, retention, and training of our successors?
• Make pigs sing; annoy pigs• We know of many other strategies that aren’t working, and
some that help individuals, but not the discipline or dept.• Can you
Should youWhy would you want to:provide administrative guidan$e, vi$ion, and mu$cle to make strategic (i.e., lab group) hires to create effective research habitat.
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Incubation by Acculturation
• Inevitably raises self-expectations; establishes a model of performance and protocol
• Reduces organizational demand on individuals
• Provides redundancy in identifying areas of training importance, thereby reducing gaps
• Establishes a long-term community
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IncubatingFuture Research Faculty
1. Explicit attention to research training as the primary objective for those seeking the research doctorate
2. Exploiting all available resources to enhance research training
3. Removing threats, barriers, and distracters from research training.
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Training Elements
• Culture
• Mentoring
• Curriculum
• Funding
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Specific Training ElementsCulture
• Creating a more general culture of expectation
• Joining with established research groups
• Promoting participation in the larger culture (e.g., presentations at scientific meetings specific to the student’s research area
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Specific Training ElementsMentoring
• Use a Strong Mentoring Model• Include students in mentors’ work
• e.g., manuscript review, human subjects approvals, purchasing, analysis)
• Build toward solid, early independence (it’s unlikely there’s a post-doc in his/her future).
• Create expectations that build toward career goals at a high level (e.g., scientific presentations, journal publications, grantwriting, technical skills)
• Within each research group, stay product-focused
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Specific Training ElementsCurriculum
• Departmental core-discipline curriculum• e.g., speech acoustics, speech physiology,
bioacoustics, psychoacoustics, spoken language production, speech perception, speech, language, and hearing development
• Research forum as an incubator• Grant writing (e.g., require an F31 app)• Lab rotations have advantages and
disadvantages
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Specific Training ElementsGrants
• Training Grants (T32 or F31) andResearch Grants (e.g., R01, R15, R21)
• Enforce a common research focus within a research group
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Specific Training ElementsGrants
NIH 20-year survey of research training: Institutional trainingIndividual training awardsResearch assistantships
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Specific Training ElementsGrants
• Matching educational goals with research support• e.g., using doctoral students as clinic
supervisors only when their research area or career focus includes supervision.
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Threats
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Specific Threats
• High teaching and supervisory expectations
• Reduced research exposure
• Part-time enrollment denies the student the opportunities afforded by a cohort.
• Overprotection
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Specific ThreatsCultural Insufficiency
• Science in a vacuum• A viable cohort is essential
• Abandoning the basic sciences• Ever-increasing M.S. certification
requirements
• Clinical doctorate (AuD, SLPD)
• Diverting basic research support and students into advanced clinical training
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Possible Actions When a Cohort is Too Small to Thrive
• Merging with healthy populations• Cross-breeding to take advantage of established
disciplines’ strong traditions, habitats, and cultures of research rigor
• With other departments• Across universities
• Capitalizing on the strengths of other species (e.g., psychology, physiology, neuroscience)
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How small is too small?
• Too small to provide a sense of community• Too small to justify the resources (attention,
teaching load, space) necessary to provide the community
• Doctoral students are too rare to yield a regular pattern
• Too small to offer doctoral-level coursework; overly reliant on independent study.
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Training PitfallsProgrammatic
• Still-growing programs• No generation is expendable
• Building research programs that rely too heavily on hired (i.e., non-student) researchers.
• Future mentors without adequate research training
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Strategies
• Getting by
• Ramping up
• Building a Whole Department
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Alternatives
Raphus cucullatus ( - 1681)