Application for Mentoring Program
Center for Patient, Family & Community Engagement
in Chronic Care Management (CENTRIC)
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Supported by, the College of Nursing, the Vice Chancellor for Research office and the Hearst Foundation, the Center for Patient, Family, and Community Engagement in Chronic Care Management brings together scientists, clinicians, educators, and consumers to improve the safety, quality, and efficiency of self-management of chronic conditions by harnessing the power of newly emerging mobile, wearable, and online technologies.
The mentoring program within the CENTRIC Center is designed to connect junior faculty from across UNMC with senior research faculty in clinical research effortsfocused on chronic care management for patients, families, and/or communities. CENTRIC is committed to the success of its junior faculty by providing expert research mentoring and guidance.Junior faculty include faculty at the Instructor or Assistant professor level. It is assumed that the faculty mentee would not have had prior R01-level funding.
CENTRIC is committed to the formation of mentoring teams to ensure that all junior faculty are connected to a primary senior faculty mentor, and encouraged to develop a research mentor team in chronic care management.
Expectations of Mentors
Using the “Information for Mentors” link on the UNMC website as a guide for mentoring, senior faculty (both Associate and Full Professors) are expected to mentorjunior faculty when an appropriate opportunity is available. Mentors can negotiate to be compensated for their mentoring activities (i.e., by travel to a research conference, purchase of small amount of equipment, etc.)
Expectations of Faculty Mentees
Junior Faculty are expected to engage with mentors in a proactive fashion, setting regular meetings, keeping the mentor informed about developments, soliciting advice, information and opportunities, and seeking out mentors in other disciplines, as needed. Mentees should befamiliar with the expectations described at the UNMC website Information for Mentees link (
Applying to be a mentee in the CENTRIC Center is not a prerequisite to apply for a CENTRIC pilot grant. However, if accepted as a mentee, we strongly encourage the mentee to become an active participant in the CENTRIC center to interact with other faculty in the center, attend research seminars and workshops, and potentially apply for a CENTRIC grant and/or other grant mechanisms on campus.
Desired Outcomes of a Productive Faculty Mentoring Relationship
1. Junior faculty will meet annual SMART goals for scholarship (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time Bound).
2. Junior faculty will gain a clearer sense of the rigors and rewards of a career in academia.
3. Junior faculty will acquire a better awareness of expectations for career advancement.
4. Junior faculty will develop rapport with at least one other faculty member.
5. The transition period from new investigator to established researcher will decrease.
6. Increased effectiveness in early intervention for issues/challenges will take place, if a need is identified.
Eligibility
- Current full time faculty appointment at UNMC
- Junior faculty who have not had research funding or have had only pilot funding
- Membership and participation in the CENTRIC center
- Eligible to apply for NIH funds
- Interest related to research in patient, family and/or community engagement in chronic care management
- For questions about eligibility, contact Laura Robbins , Carol Pullen , or Patrik Johansson
Process
If you would like to be assigned a research mentor through CENTRIC, please complete the application below and submit it to Laura Robbins at . You will be assigned a mentor for one year. After that time, you can request to continue working with this same mentor or request a new mentor.
Application Deadline: Rolling deadline. Applications may be submitted at any time.
Requirements: Participate in an annual seminar or workshop on mentoring sponsored by CENTRIC.
Application Process:
- Compile the below application form
- Submit completed application to .
Application for Mentee in CENTRIC Center
Name:______Current Academic Rank: ______
College:______
Department:______
Office Address:______
Office Telephone Number:______
Email:______
Existing or proposed mentor:______
Provide a brief description (<1/2 – 1 page) of your short- and long-term research career goals, how they build on your prior research training experience, and how these fit with the CENTRIC Center (clinical research focused on chronic care management for patients, families, and/or communities). Explain how the proposed research will advance your program of research (e.g., include in this description what you want to be known for in your field of science).
Eligibility for Mentor Status
- Current full time faculty appointment at UNMC
- Senior faculty who has had major research funding at the R01 level
- Membership and participation in the CENTRIC center
- Interests related to conducting research in patient, family and/or community engagement in chronic care management
- For questions about eligibility, contact Laura Robbins , Carol Pullen , or Patrik Johansson
Process
If you would like to be a research mentor through CENTRIC, please complete the application below and submit it to Laura Robbins at . You will be assigned a mentee for one year. After that time, you can request to continue working with this same mentee or request a new mentee.
Application Deadline: Rolling deadline. Applications may be submitted at any time.
Requirements: Participate in an annual seminar or workshop on mentoring sponsored by CENTRIC.
Application Process:
- Compile the below application form
- Submit completed application to .
Application for Mentor
Name:______Current Academic Rank: ______
College:______
Department:______
Office Address:______
Office Telephone Number:______
Email:______
Existing or proposed mentee:______
Provide a brief description of your program of research or your NIH biosketch.
Review Process
- The CENTRIC Mentoring Committee will review all requests for mentors and for faculty who desire to serve in a mentoring capacity.
- The Mentoring Committee will forward their recommendations to the Core Nursing Committee for review and approval and annual monitoring.
- The Core Nursing Committee will notify prospective mentors about being a mentor and submit the request for mentoring to the mentor.
Questions
Please direct questions to the one of the co-chairs of the mentoring committee, Dr. Carol Pullen, or Dr. Patrik Johansson, .
CENTRIC defines research relevant to the center below:
Research with human subjects (clinical research) that is focused on:
1. Developing biobehavioral interventions for use in varied clinical and community settings that test the efficacy or effectiveness of self-management interventions for chronic conditions to reduce burden and disability, improve functioning and health related quality of life, strengthen patient activation and participation in health care, and prevent illness and complications.
2. Designing novel interventions, technologies, and social media that assist in monitoring symptom status, promoting health behavior modifications, and accessing/imparting health information to improve health and self-management outcomes in chronic illness.
3. Incorporating research methodologies to include the use of technology to deliver interventions or monitor outcomes for self-management of chronic conditions in individuals, families and communities.
Clinical research is further defined as:
1.Patient-oriented research. Research conducted with human subjects (or on material of human origin such as tissues, specimens, and cognitive phenomena) for which an investigator (or colleague) directly interacts with human subjects. Excluded from this definition are in vitro studies that utilize human tissues that cannot be linked to a living individual. It includes: (a) mechanisms of human disease, (b), therapeutic interventions, (c) clinical trials, or (d) development of new technologies.
2.Epidemiological and behavioral studies.
3.Outcomes research and health services research