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An international consensus on effective, inclusive, and career-spanning short-format training in the life sciences and beyond

Jason Williams
Rochelle Tractenberg
Erin Becker
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Anne Brown
Melissa Burke
Nisha Cooch
Samuel Donovan
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Christina Hall
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Kate Hertweck
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Kari Jordan
John Jungck
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Ainsley Latour
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Marta Lloret-Llinares
Gary Mcdowell
Rana Morris
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Teresa Mourad
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Amy Nisselle
Patricia Ordóñez
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Lisanna Paladin
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Patricia Palagi
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Mahadeo Sukhai
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Tracy Teal
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Louise Woodley
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Résumé

Science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) fields change rapidly and are increasingly interdisciplinary. Commonly, STEMM practitioners use short-format training (SFT) such as workshops and short courses for upskilling and reskilling, but unaddressed challenges limit SFT’s effectiveness and inclusiveness. Education researchers, students in SFT courses, and organizations have called for research and strategies that can strengthen SFT in terms of effectiveness, inclusiveness, and accessibility across multiple dimensions. This paper describes the project that resulted in a consensus set of 14 actionable recommendations to systematically strengthen SFT. A diverse international group of 30 experts in education, accessibility, and life sciences came together from 10 countries to develop recommendations that can help strengthen SFT globally. Participants, including representation from some of the largest life science training programs globally, assembled findings in the educational sciences and encompassed the experiences of several of the largest life science SFT programs. The 14 recommendations were derived through a Delphi method, where consensus was achieved in real time as the group completed a series of meetings and tasks designed to elicit specific recommendations. Recommendations cover the breadth of SFT contexts and stakeholder groups and include actions for instructors (e.g., make equity and inclusion an ethical obligation), programs (e.g., centralize infrastructure for assessment and evaluation), as well as organizations and funders (e.g., professionalize training SFT instructors; deploy SFT to counter inequity). Recommendations are aligned with a purpose-built framework—“The Bicycle Principles”—that prioritizes evidenced-based teaching, inclusiveness, and equity, as well as the ability to scale, share, and sustain SFT. We also describe how the Bicycle Principles and recommendations are consistent with educational change theories and can overcome systemic barriers to delivering consistently effective, inclusive, and career-spanning SFT.

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Education

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hal-04644978 , version 1 (11-07-2024)

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Jason Williams, Rochelle Tractenberg, Bérénice Batut, Erin Becker, Anne Brown, et al.. An international consensus on effective, inclusive, and career-spanning short-format training in the life sciences and beyond. PLoS ONE, 2023, 18 (11), pp.e0293879. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0293879⟩. ⟨hal-04644978⟩

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