Zuzana Povolna: ICRC Academy (T24)
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Presentation from the 2nd Scientix Conference, 24-26 October 2014, Brussels, Belgium
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Zuzana Povolna: ICRC Academy (T24)
- 1. Academy ICRC Support of cooperation with talented students Zuzana Povolná October 25, 2014
- 2. Why? Lack of talented/active students involved in our research activities No awarness about career opportunities in the field of clinical research x careers in private sector Limited research skills and knowledge
- 3. What is Academy ICRC? Educational concept focused on systematic work with university and high school students in the area of clinical research The goal is to introduce to the students the work opportunities in the field of science and research and perspectives of their personal growth (in ICRC- in the best case) Start: September 2012
- 4. 3-steps Concept Lecture Road-Show Clinical Research Seminar Research Assistant
- 8. Research Asistant + Mentor
- 9. New part of Academy - SoVA
- 10. Facebook
- 12. Outcomes 5 cities 13 institutions 14 lectures at universities + 7 for high schools 73 professionals involved 700 participants 19 students working within the research teams 10 international conferences 5 short/long term stays abroad
- 13. And it‘s not the end… Never lose a talent!
- 16. All this results in… 10 from 19 students/Clinical Research Assistants will carry on working within our research teams after their contract provided through Academy is finished by the end of September 2014
- 17. Financing ICRC Academy is co-financed from the European Social Fund and the state budget of the Czech Republic through the Operational Program Education for Competitiveness.
- 18. Thank you for your attention! zuzana.povolna@fnusa.cz International Clinical Research Center St. Anne‘s University Hospital Brno Pekařská 53, Brno 656 91 Czech Republic www.fnusa-icrc.org
Editor's Notes
- Good afternoon, before I start my presentation I would like to ask you to imagine a situation that you are a student. High school or university student. You really like studying, biology, chemistry, exploring new things but knowledge gained at school or college is not enought. You are looking for some new oportunities, you want to take part in something real, but there aren‘t so many possibilities.. On the other hand… Try to imagine that you work in a research institution and you have a lack of young, active and enthusiastic employees. You would like to attract some students in your teams but you don‘t know how. You have to admit that both of these situations are not very pleasant, right? Therefore I would like to offer you a solution. My name is Zuzana Povolná , and in my presentation I would like to introduce you our educational concept ICRC Academy. Why and how could it be helpful for you? If you would like to involve students in your research activities, it might be an inspiration how to do it. Because we know now that this concept works and it‘s quite simple.
- Before I explain the basis/how we do it, I would like to say why we started this. From our experience we know that we don‘t have enough talented students working in our reseach teams in International Clinical Research Center. We want more of them. Also we know that students don‘t have that much information about career opportunities in the field of clinical research offered by academic sphere and they are attracted by the rich private sector. And moreover, and this works at least for the Czech Republic, we think that the students have limited research skills and knowledge.
- Therefore we decided to change this and we launched the Academy two years ago. It‘s focused on systematic collaboration with university and high school students. We want to show them in an attractive way the scientific career opportunities, especially in the field of clinical research, and raise their awareness of perspectives of their personal growth.
- The whole Academy consists of three main parts: Lecture Road-Show, Clinical Research Seminar and part-time working contract within Position of Research Assistant.
- The lecture road-show takes place at the biginning of academic year in autum and it‘s basically a series of lectures run by our specialists at universities or high-schools. We want to meet the students in their natural environment and introduce them the clinical research activities in an attractive way or motivate them for participation in research. You know, if they don‘t know about us, we have to come to them. We always pick the relevant institutions according to their specialization – biology, chemistry, veterinary sciences, biomedical engineering, medicine of course and we always optimize the presentations to this specialization. The presentations are prepared with experts, young researchers and ICRC Academy graduates as speakers and they are based on real examples from practice. As I said we have really good experience with young speakers (Ph.D. students or Academy graduates) who are (still) enthusiastic and closer to the audience. The lectures also serve as an invitation to the Clinical Research Seminar (the third step of Academy).
- The seminar is organized in February right in between the academic semesters. It takes three days and is full of lectures and excursions and is dedicated to different topics (research methodology, research and business etc.). The maximum of the participants is 50 and they are chosen based on their CVs and motivational letters. The last day, we organize a competition – presentations of the participants. Based on which and personal interviews with the leaders of research teams, the best students are offered a position of Research Assistant.
- On the photo you can see our Assistants – a high school student on the left and a university student on the right. The Assistans work 4 hours a week and we give them salary isn‘t that high so we know that they don‘t do it for money. However, the important is fact, the they work under the guidance of a mentor who is usually a Ph.D. student. The Assistants can also experience the athmosphere of an international conference and they also can go abroad for a short-term internship. It needs to be said that the contract is temporary – for a few months.
- Here you can see our Assistant, Lukáš Malý, a biomedical engineer and his mentor, dr. Ondřej Volný at the conference in Valencia. Where they presented their research project.
- Special and quite new part of Academy is Competition of Student Research Projects within the ICRC Academy, which we call SoVA (abbreviation of the Czech title). SoVA is a competition of high school student research projects on a chosen topic connected to medicine. The projects are prepared in cooperation with a local mentor – Academy graduate, a student´s teacher, and a foreign mentor – an expert from cooperating institution such as Mayo Clinic. The participants work on their projects during the academic year and have a chance to participate on several workshops and treinings and also to visit with their teachers the mentors at their home institution. It gives them the unique opportunity to work on their own research project in English, to communicate in foreign language and to be a step ahead of their classmates.
- To keep the students informed and be actively in touch with them we launched a FB page. I can imagine that some or most of you don‘t really like this social site but our target group is there so we have to be there as well.
- Also this year we prepared a promo video that I would like to show you. It will demostrate the athmosphere of the seminar.
- All this was nice but what are the results? We have visited so far 5 cities and 13 institutions where we have organized 14 lectures + 7 of them for high schools. More than 70 professionals got involved as speakers and we had more than 700 participants of any of the parts. The most important is that 19 students became parts of our teams. And some of them have already (sometimes for the first time) took part in an foreign event or went for an internship. We are very proud of the fact that some of our Academy students are involved in activities for high school students, such as presenting or mentoring.
- That could be all. But we were thinking – we found these super talented and excellent guys, members of our teams, that want to work with us. And we don‘t want to lose them.
- Therefore we organize the educational workshops for them to the related topics like matlab, media training and so on. We invite them to the lectures.
- Also we give them a chance to become speakers and present their work to their colleagues from uni or high-schools of foreign guests.
- But we consider as a main outcome of the Academy and the most important is that 10 from 19 Assistants (students) will carry on working within the research teams after their contract provided through Academy is finished in June. That means that their mentors and leaders of the research teams want to keep them and these hard-working, great students want to stay with us. And that‘s the point.
- I need to mention here that ICRC Academy is financed now from the European Social Fund within a project dedicated to popularization of clinical research. But I have to say that it is not anything expensive.. And that‘s all.
- Thank you for the attention and I will be happy to answer any of your questions.