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可导致癌症风险降低，癌症早期检测和癌症诊断后生活质量改善的行为来促进癌症预防和控制。 1996年，美国国家癌症研究所召集了一个工作组来评估行为肿瘤学研究的现状和未来方向。 工作组注意到，行为研究对癌症预防和控制工作作出了重大贡献，但仍存在许多机遇和挑战。 为了保持这一领域的科学进步，工作组得出结论认为，为行为科学家提供创新培训赠款将特别重要。 我们正在寻求资金来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养博士后候选人。 我们的计划侧重于在行为肿瘤学研究中培训癌症科学家，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的广泛和富有成效的合作基础上。 为了实现既定的教育和职业目标，我们设计了一个程序，其特点是由一组资深研究人员领导，开发和实施我们机构无法提供的专业课程，众多的跨学科研究环境，以及由每个受训者至少三名导师组成的培训委员会。 该提案的具体目标是：1）利用南佛罗里达大学和莫菲特癌症中心的师资和资源建立行为肿瘤学研究的博士后培训计划; 2）招募有前途的学员，致力于行为肿瘤学研究人员的职业生涯; 3）为这些学员提供成为行为肿瘤学成功的独立研究者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.