OCPD: TRAIN-UP Course / 2 -day August Bootcamp

What:

The TRAIN-UP course is a 2-day intensive course for basic UCSF research trainees that takes place in August for the Fall semester. The course is a component of OCPD's Training Researchers and INterns for Upcoming Professors (TRAIN-UP) Series. Participants who would like to gain experience applying the skills taught in the TRAIN-UP course are welcome to participate in the Mentoring for Success training program.

Course Goals:

The goal of the TRAIN-UP course is to provide research trainees with the tools to :

1. Effectively hire, train, supervise and mentor team members when building a new research team (including research assistants and associates, graduate students, and post-doctoral scholars)

2. Support diversity in their research team, where diversity refers to traditional definitions of gender, racial, cultural, socioeconomic diversity as well diversity of work styles, learning styles, career goals and educational goals.

When:

The August TRAIN-UP course is offered as a 2-day Bootcamp on Tuesday, August 4th and Thursday, August 6th from 9 am - 5 pm on both days. In order to complete the course, it is essential that participants attend both days.

Where:

Mission Bay Campus. Location will be emailed with confirmation.

How To Enroll:

Space is limited. We will confirm enrollment after reviewing your information. Please provide an email address that you check regularly. Contact Laurence Clement if you need to discuss your particular situation.

More about the course:

The TRAIN-UP course is an in-person course that takes place over 2 days, from 9 am to 5 pm. The course is offered by the Office of Career and Professional Development and is taught by Laurence Clement, Program Director of Academic Career Development at OCPD. The course is free of charge for UCSF graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and is especially designed for basic scientists, although it is open to all UCSF research trainees.

The course provides participants with a new framework to hire, teach, train and supervise other research trainees. This framework integrates education, management and leadership theory and is applied to the research laboratory culture.

The course includes assignments that must be completed outside of class, as well as a combination of lectures and activities to apply the TRAIN-UP framework to one's own situation. For example, participants will practice writing a project description as well as a list of required skills and qualities for a position in their lab, using the concepts learned in lecture around working with diverse team members.

Course Leanring Outcomes

By the end of this course, research trainees should be able to:

Design a small project for an intern that can be realistically completed during the duration of an internship, and identify basic skills and qualities required or preferred from successful applicants.

• Develop overall learning, training, performance and professional goals for the internship and assessments to identify the trainee’s baseline knowledge and skills.
• Effectively communicate their expectations as well as their work style, the big picture of their project, and their enthusiasm for their work to novice trainees.
• Design effective strategies to onboard the new trainee including acclimation to lab culture, providing basic lab safety and documentation training, completing administrative paperwork with the University.
• Describe the TRAIN-UP framework and how it applies to training, supervising and mentoring new research trainees, regardless of their personality type.
• Explain the advantages of hiring diverse students (where diversity is defines in broad terms and includes diversity of work styles) and approaches to effectively training others while creating a supportive climate in the lab.

Instructor and Contact: Laurence Clement, PhD, Program Director of Academic Career Development, UCSF Office of Career and Professional Development, Laurence.Clement@ucsf.edu