Hampton University-UPCI Education/Training Program

摘要/项目目标： 该项目的主要目标是启动一个新的课程，并建立胡的科学技能 本科生，重点是癌症发病率的环境和流行病学因素， 进展、预防和治疗。一个新的分子流行病学培训课程将 作为讲习班课程和教学课程的补充。这一倡议建立并从一个 现有HU-UPCI伙伴关系。通过这一伙伴关系开展的以往工作取得成功的关键是 在本科教学中采用合作学习的方式进行学习， 癌症生物学拟议的HU-UPCI教育计划将开发一门课程和一个研讨会，两者都是新的 多学科工具，针对从大二开始的学生，具体目标是教他们如何 将基础科学成果转化为人类研究，以及如何从分子流行病学研究结果 可以回答与健康差异相关的公共卫生问题。研讨会的重点，“技能， 调查科学，”将是对学生的科学语言技能的发展，假设的框架， 同行评审期刊文章的批判性阅读，以及通过公开演讲的沟通技巧， 科学信息。该课程，“转化癌症研究课程”，将包括讲座， HU-UPCI合作教师和环境流行病学癌症文献的批判性评论， 基因-环境交互作用这些课程将与现有的癌症课程相辅相成。一 暑期研究实习将提供给参加课程的学生，以测试具体的 基于现有数据库的假设，这些数据库包含来自人类研究的流行病学和生物学数据。 该计划还将制定评估措施，将比较癌症知识和信仰， 学生之前和之后采取的癌症系列课程，并比较学生的职业态度 参加暑期研究实习。最后，为了推进这一倡议的学术议程， 结果将在教育文献中公布，R25 E赠款将在年底计划， 目前的项目是支持实施更多的教育创新。完成这些 这些目标将使我们更接近于建立一个国家模式，以增加少数群体癌症的数量。 研究人员，这反过来将大大有助于减少少数民族的癌症健康差距， 美国参考

Abstract/Objective of the program: The primary goal of this project is to initiate a new curriculum and to build the scientific skills of HU undergraduate students with a focus on environmental and epidemiologic factors in cancer incidence, progression, prevention and treatment. A novel training curriculum in molecular epidemiology will complement a workshop course and a didactic course. This initiative builds and branches out from an existing HU-UPCI Partnership. The key to the success of previous work conducted through this partnership was innovation in teaching of undergraduate courses by using a cooperative learning approach to learn cancer biology. The proposed HU-UPCI Education Program will develop a course and a workshop, both new multidisciplinary tools directed at students starting at the sophomore level, with the specific aim to teach how to translate basic science results into human studies, and how results from molecular epidemiologic studies can answer public health issues related to health disparities. The focus of the workshop, "Skills for Investigative Science," will be on students' development of scientific language skills, framing of hypotheses, critical reading of peer-reviewed journal articles, and communication skills through the public presentation of scientific information. The course, "Curriculum for Translational Cancer Research," will feature lectures by HU-UPCI collaborating faculty and critical review of cancer literature on environmental epidemiology and gene-environment interaction. These courses will be complementary with the established cancer courses. A summer research internship will be available for students who attended the courses, to test specific hypotheses on existing data bases containing both epidemiological and biological data from human studies. The program will also develop evaluative measures that will compare cancer knowledge and beliefs of students prior to and after taking the series of cancer classes and to compare career attitudes of students participating in the summer research internship. Lastly, to advance the academic agenda of this initiative, results will be published in the educational literature and R25E grants will be planned at the end of the current project to support the implementation of additional educational innovations. Completion of these goals will lead us closer to developing a national model for growing the number of minority cancer researchers, which in turn will greatly contribute to reducing cancer health disparities in minorities in America.