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. 2021 Feb 7;18(4):1569. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18041569

Table 1.

Professional Development Team-Science Bootcamp at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM). Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Center.

Category Representative Topics
Professional Conduct
  • Research integrity and professional ethics

  • Responsible conduct of research

  • Research administration: financial and personnel management

  • Materials, ownership, and materials transfer agreements

  • Intellectual property, copyrights, patents, licenses, technology transfer

  • Conflicts of interest

Research Resources
  • Research design; biostatistics; bioinformatics; data acquisition, management and analysis

  • Research involving human subjects or tissues; regulatory and compliance issues

  • Research involving vertebrate animals; regulatory and compliance issues

  • Environmental safety: radiation, chemicals, biological/select agents

  • Survey design and administration; dissemination and implementation

Career Skills and Knowledge
  • Community-engaged research and community-based participatory research tutorials and workshops

  • Principles and best practices for building trust-based relationships with communities

  • Mentor and mentee responsibilities, collaborative team science

  • Time management and working strategically

  • Authorship and publication practices, navigating collaborative publications

  • Manuscript preparation, submission and revisions

  • Public-speaking, presentation and communication skills

  • Identifying funding opportunities, understanding different NIH funding mechanisms, grant writing and grantsmanship, grant submission

  • Promotion and tenure dossier preparation

  • Career opportunities in academia, industry, state and federal government, and global organizations