Behavioral Oncology Education and Career Development

描述(由申请人提供)：行为肿瘤学旨在通过识别和促进能够降低癌症风险、更早发现癌症并提高癌症诊断后生活质量的行为，为癌症预防和控制做出贡献。1996年，国家癌症研究所召集了一个工作组，评估行为肿瘤学的研究现状和未来方向。工作组注意到，行为研究为癌症预防和控制工作做出了重大贡献，但仍然存在许多机会和挑战。为了维持这一领域的科学进步，工作组得出结论，为行为科学家提供创新培训补助金将特别重要。 我们正在寻求资金，以开发和实施一个依赖于课程的计划，该计划将在高度跨学科和协作的癌症研究环境中培训博士后候选人。我们的计划重点是在行为肿瘤学研究方面培训癌症科学家，这一领域显然需要在协作和跨学科环境中进行培训。拟议的计划建立在南佛罗里达大学和莫菲特癌症中心研究人员在行为科学、人口科学、流行病学、生物统计学、营养、护理、医学以及癌症预防和控制方面广泛而富有成效的合作的基础上。为了实现既定的教育和职业目标，我们设计了一个项目，其特点是由一组成熟的高级调查人员领导，开发和实施我们机构没有的专门课程，许多跨学科的研究环境，以及每个受训人员至少由三名导师组成的培训委员会。 该建议的具体目标是：1)利用南佛罗里达大学和莫菲特癌症中心的教师和资源，建立行为肿瘤学研究的博士后培训计划；2)招募有前途的受训者，致力于行为肿瘤学的研究；以及3)为这些受训者提供成为行为肿瘤学成功的独立研究人员所需的教学和研究经验。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Behavioral oncology seeks to contribute to cancer prevention and control by identifying and promoting behaviors that can lead to reductions in cancer risk, earlier detection of cancer, and improved quality of life following cancer diagnosis. In 1996, the National Cancer Institute convened a working group to assess the current status and future directions of research in behavioral oncology. The working group observed that behavioral research had made significant contributions to cancer prevention and control efforts, but that many opportunities and challenges remained. In order to sustain scientific progress in this area, the working group concluded that innovative training grants for behavioral scientists would be especially important. We are seeking funding to develop and implement a curriculum dependent program that will train postdoctoral candidates in cancer research settings that are highly inter-disciplinary and collaborative. Our program focuses on training cancer scientists in behavioral oncology research, a field that clearly requires training in collaborative and inter-disciplinary settings. The proposed program builds upon extensive and productive collaborations among University of South Florida and Moffitt Cancer Center researchers in behavioral science, population science, epidemiology, biostatistics, nutrition, nursing, medicine, as well as cancer prevention and control. In order to achieve the stated educational and career objectives, we have designed a program that features leadership by an established group of senior investigators, the development and implementation of a specialized curriculum not otherwise available at our institution, numerous inter-disciplinary research environments, and training committees comprised of a minimum of three mentors per trainee. The specific objectives of the proposal are: 1) to establish a postdoctoral training program in behavioral oncology research using the faculty and resources of the University of South Florida and the Moffitt Cancer Center; 2) to recruit promising trainees committed to careers as researchers in behavioral oncology; and 3) to provide these trainees with the didactic and research experiences need to become successful independent investigators in behavioral oncology.