Helping Your Students Thrive at the NIH.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * Helping Your Students Thrive at the NIH build your career, shape the future Sharon L. Milgram, milgrams@ ABSTRACT The NIH intramural research program sponsors research training programs for high school, college and graduate students. It also sponsors postdoctoral programs in basic, translational, and clinical research. The NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education (OITE) sponsors workshops and educational programs to guide intramural trainees in their scientific and professional development. The workshops include writing courses, communication skills workshops, and leadership development programs. For college students and postbaccalaureate fellows, the OITE sponsors workshops on going to graduate and professional school. In a recent exit survey, over 50% of our postbacs were admitted to graduate school and 40% were admitted to professional school. NIH postbacd report that their time at NIH helped them define their career goals and opened their eyes to the importance of biomedical research regardless of their chosen career path. To insure that students have an outstanding experience at the NIH, university mentors and MORE Program Directors should encourage them to attend OITE orientation, download handbooks and the moving guide before coming to campus, meet their Institute training director and OITE staff, and participate in workshops throughout their internship. The National Institutes of Health “The Nation’s biomedical research institution” Composed of 27 Institutes and Centers Campuses in MD, NC, AZ, MI, and MT Two divisions -- intramural and extramural Basic, translational and clinical research The world’s largest hospital devoted exclusively to clinical research, with: Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center 240 beds 7,000 inpatient admissions a year 9,750 new patients a year 72,600 outpatient visits a year 900 active clinical research protocols The Intramural Research Community 1100 Tenured/Tenure-track investigators 1000 St