NEST 2014: Views from the Trainees—Talking About What Matters in Efforts to Diversify the STEM Workforce
CBE—Life Sciences EducationPublished 1 December 2014Open access
Andrew G. Campbell, Rachel C. Skvirsky, Henry Wortis, Sheila Thomas, Ichiro Kawachi, Christine F. Höhmann
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The outcomes of a retreat designed to cultivate interactions between trainees at various training levels and provide them opportunities to share their training perspectives and expectations are summarized.
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This paper summarizes the outcomes of a retreat designed to cultivate interactions between trainees at various training levels and provide them opportunities to share their training perspectives and expectations. Retreat outcomes are used to support the development of better science, technology, engineering, and mathematics training practices by informing the trainersâ perspective.
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