Summer Research Experiences in Cancer Science and Oncology

项目总结/摘要 对于决定他或她未来职业或专业的学生来说，指导性的研究经验提供了 对该领域专业人士生活的批判性见解。实习生培养对 专业实践，掌握技能和方法，并在大多数情况下，进一步鼓励 继续在这个领域学习。在癌症研究中的实习越来越重要的目标，鼓励 更多的科学家和临床医生专注于癌症，以满足我们日益增长的需求，因为我们的国家 人口老龄化，癌症护理的复杂性随着生存率和癌症对医疗保健的影响而扩大 继续增加。拥有66年的经验，罗斯韦尔公园夏季研究经验 肿瘤学和癌症科学项目将继续为新兴大学提供暑期实习机会 大四学生（10周）和正在上升的二年级医学和医生助理学生（8周）。其目标 告知学生关于临床和研究职业的决定，激励他们追求癌症 研究，并给予他们必要的研究和沟通技巧。每个实习生都系统地 与医生或科学家相匹配，在导师的诊所或实验室工作，探索 专业和工作环境，有助于正在进行的研究或临床操作，并报告 通过口头和海报展示他们的成果。这些实习发生在独特的环境， 一个NIH指定的综合癌症中心，临床和研究操作紧密 交织在翻译研究的结构中。实习生将专门探索的连续性， 通过相关的支持合作，在基础、人群、转化和临床试验研究方面取得进展， 教学系列讲座和同行交叉培训活动的课程。专业发展 编程支持实习生探索癌症职业的各个方面，包括参与的机会 社区教育服务学习。我们继续与霍华德大学（a 领导历史上的黑人学院/大学）提供指导，以二年级和三年级的荣誉 学生在他们的指导阅读课程。罗斯韦尔公园教师，博士后培训生和毕业生 学生视频会议与他们的霍华德荣誉学生每两周讨论主要的科学 文学这个实习前的远程导师计划允许霍华德的学生到达他们的 罗斯韦尔公园暑期实习已经研究了他们导师的研究领域的文献。 我们已经扩大了护理本科生的实习机会，以培养他们的欣赏能力， 了解肿瘤学研究和临床试验管理，并满足开发 肿瘤科护士精通研究和临床试验实施的能力。的成功 暑期研究体验计划将通过鼓励实习生的程度来衡量 从事涉及生物医学研究的职业，最好是在癌症领域。

Project Summary/Abstract For a student deciding on his or her future career or specialty, a mentored research experience provides critical insights into the lives of professionals in that field. The intern develops awareness of the professional practices, masters skills and methods, and, in the majority of cases, is further encouraged to continue study in that field. Internships in cancer research are increasingly vital to the goal of encouraging greater numbers of scientists and clinicians to focus on cancer to meet our growing need as our nation's population ages, complexities of cancer care expand with survivorship and cancer's impact on healthcare continues to increase. With sixty-six years of experience, the Roswell Park Summer Research Experience Programs in Oncology and the Cancer Science will continue offering summer internships to rising college seniors (10-weeks) and rising second-year medical and physician assistant students (8-weeks). Its goals are to inform students' decisions regarding clinical and research careers, motivate them to pursue cancer research, and give them essential research and communication skills. Each intern is systematically matched to a physician or scientist, works in the mentor's clinic or lab, explores the demands of the profession and work environment, contributes to the ongoing research or clinical operations, and reports on their results through oral and poster presentations. These internships occur in the unique environment of an NIH-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center where clinical and research operations are tightly interwoven within the fabric of translational research. Interns will specifically explore the continuum of progress across basic, population, translational, and clinical trial research through a relevant supporting co- curriculum of a didactic lecture series and peer-cross training activities. Professional development programming supports interns' exploration of facets of cancer careers including opportunities to participate in community education service-learning. We continue our unique partnership with Howard University (a leading Historically Black College/University) to provide mentoring to sophomore and junior honors students in their Directed Reading courses. Roswell Park faculty, post-doctoral trainees, and graduate students videoconference with their Howard honors students bi-weekly to discuss primary scientific literature. This pre-internship distance mentorship program allows Howard students to arrive at their Roswell Park summer internship having already studied the literature from their mentor's research area. We have expanded internship offerings to nursing undergraduates to develop an appreciation and understanding of oncology research and clinical trial management and meet the needs of developing a capacity of oncology nurses versed in research and clinical trial implementation. The success of the Summer Research Experience Programs will be measured by the degree to which interns are encouraged to pursue careers involving biomedical research, optimally in the cancer field.