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Title: Univ of Wisconsin-Madison Neuroscience Training Program


1
Univ of Wisconsin-Madison Neuroscience Training
Program
  • CID Leadership Committee
  • Faculty
  • Vaishali Bakshi, PhD
  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
  • Mary Behan, PhD
  • Professor of Comparative Biosciences
  • Cindy Czajkowski, PhD
  • Associate Professor of Physiology
  • Tim Gomez, PhD
  • Assistant Professor of Anatomy
  • Students
  • Jason Berndt--4th year student
  • Erin Hanlon--4th year student
  • Rebekah Jakel--3rd year student(MD/PhD)
  • Aaron Nelson--2nd year student
  • Terri Schochet--5th year student

Stephen Johnson, DVM/PhD Assistant Professor of
Comparative Biosciences Ron Kalil, PhD Professor
of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Ann Kelley,
PhD Professor of Psychiatry Bob Pearce,
MD/PhD Professor of Anesthesiology Heather
Daniels, Administrator
2
The Program
  • Founded in 1971
  • Continuously-funded Training Grant for over 25
    years
  • More than 90 faculty in 23 departments
  • Over 160 applications received each year
  • 51 current students
  • 99 Ph.D. degrees granted and over 90 of
    graduates remain in the biomedical sciences

3
First Year Introduction to Discipline and
Program
  • Meeting with Student Advisory Committee
  • New student luncheon
  • Neuroscience Picnic
  • Introductory coursework
  • Neuro610-Cellular and Molecular
  • Neuro611-Systems
  • Professional Development
  • Seminar and subgroup
  • Chalk Talks

4
Introduction to the Research Enterprise
  • Chalk talks
  • 3 rotations (6-8 weeks each)
  • Choose major prof.
  • Advisory committee
  • Meets twice per year before preliminary exam
  • Once per year thereafter
  • Begin to collect preliminary data

5
Additional Instruction
  • Intermediate coursework
  • Emphasis on acquiring breadth
  • Advanced coursework
  • Determined by the advisory committee
  • Quantitative methods
  • Ethics subgroup
  • Teaching experience
  • Seminar and subgroups

6
Significant Transition
  • Preliminary exam
  • Thesis proposal
  • Outside area paper
  • Oral defense to advisory committee
  • Oral presentation of thesis proposal to the NTP

7
Dissertation and Defense
  • Readiness
  • Certification forms
  • Part I. Coursework
  • Part II. Preliminary Exam
  • Part III. Teaching, Research Presentation, and
    Dissertation
  • Advisory committee decision
  • The dissertation
  • Written dissertation
  • Introduction (prelim thesis proposal)
  • Body (3-4 published or publishable manuscripts)
  • Concluding chapter
  • Public oral presentation
  • Closed defense

8
Innovation
  • Professional Development Course
  • Implemented in 1997
  • Seminar/discussion format
  • Meets 1 hour per week for one semester
  • Topics include
  • Fellowship writing
  • Oral presentation
  • Lab selection
  • Evaluating research articles
  • Careers

9
Novel Idea
  • Mentor/student expectations and feedback
  • Structured written evaluation
  • Of the student Evaluation of specific skills,
    e.g. bench skills, experimental design, writing,
    oral communication, time management, etc.
  • Of the mentor Evaluation of specific mentoring
    traits, e.g. one-on-one communication,
    constructive feedback, appropriate motivational
    pressures, encouragement of outside lab
    activities, modeling, etc.
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