Our Program
Our research education program, TIDE: Establishing Trust, Stimulating Inquiry, Nurturing Development, and Community Engagement, trains current clinician scientists in mentoring best practices and community-engaged research while exposing graduate professional students to the skills needed to pursue careers in rehabilitation research. TIDE leverages partnerships across disciplines and institutions to “train the trainers” (i.e., current clinician scientists who are TIDE faculty trainees) and to provide didactic and hands on research experiences for graduate professional students (i.e., future clinician scientists who are TIDE student trainees) who are passionate about the communities served by rehabilitation.
TIDE’s overall goal is to optimize rehabilitation outcomes for all people by cultivating a community of mentors and scientists who are well-equipped to address the evolving needs of the breadth of populations that we serve.
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TIDE has three goals:
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DEVELOP PATHWAYS
for graduate professional students to learn the skills to become independent clinician scientists in rehabilitation research 
CREATE SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITIES
by training current clinician scientists in the skills necessary to attract, train, support, and advance future clinician scientists
TRAIN AND SUPPORT
future clinician scientists as they pursue rehabilitation research careers
TIDE addresses these goals in the following ways:
CONNECT:
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with graduate students completing their pre-professional training to elicit interest in exposure to research training and identify student trainees
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with faculty scientists who have an established track record of federal research funding and a strong commitment to mentoring trainees to elicit faculty trainees
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with academic programs, professional organizations, and scientific agencies invested in training, supporting, and engaging rehabilitation practitioners and scientists to create and nurture communities for future clinician scientists
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student trainees who reflect the communities served by rehabilitation and are committed to exploring careers in rehabilitation research, and
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pair with invested faculty trainees based on research interests to form dyads (student-faculty trainee pairs)
      TRAIN:
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student and faculty cohorts (all dyads within the program at a given time) with educational content focused on career development, research training, and scientific culture; dyad development plans will focus on developing pathways, creating communities and training and supporting future clinician scientists in rehabilitation research
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student and faculty dyads with dyad development plans tailored to address the career development and research training needs of the dyad; dyad development plans will focus on developing pathways for future clinician scientists in rehabilitation research
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student and faculty pods (more than one dyad) with educational content delivered through quarterly webinars and reflective discussions; webinars and discussions will address best practices and tailored strategies for creating communities and providing training and support for future clinician scientists in rehabilitation research
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through reinvestment of program leadership, faculty and student alumni, and invested partners in subsequent TIDE cohorts; this may involve alumni in dyads, pods, and peer discussions
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through disseminating successful strategies and resources developed in TIDE with the larger rehabilitation research community; this may involve workshops and training in academic, professional, and scientific organizations, as well as developing models that can be scaled to other career development and scientist training programs