Nutrition Experiences in Cancer Prevention

说明(申请人提供)：这项建议的总体目标是提高癌症相关的营养知识，并为医学生提供个人和小组营养相关的经验，以增强他们未来作为医生解决营养问题的能力。我们希望利用爱荷华大学和来自四个不同癌症研究机构的其他五位全国知名讲师的经验来灌输这样一种信念，即营养是降低癌症风险的重要和有效的方法。具体地说，学生将接受自我评估，并经历个人行为改变的过程，以实现这一目标。我们将在实际的临床环境中评估行为变化。我们的受众将是爱荷华州大学罗伊分校和卢西尔卡弗医学院1至4年级的医学生，包括公共卫生学院公共卫生公共卫生硕士/医学硕士联合项目的医学生。我们的目标也是将战略和评估方法传播到全国各地的其他医学学校。我们的具体目标包括： 1.将与癌症预防相关的营养原理纳入医学院课程和公共卫生研究生院课程。 2.向美国各地的医学院传播学习策略和评估技术，让美国各地的其他医学院和爱荷华大学公共卫生与医学院的不同部门参与进来，以满足不同年龄、种族群体和人群中特殊需要的患者的营养需求。一个传播的原型已经通过营养学术奖(NAA)进行了试点。 3.继续现有的基础设施，并开发新的基础设施，以在整个四年制课程期间和在本提案有效期内保持营养和癌症预防的学习经验。 促进爱荷华大学在营养和癌症预防方面的研究，传播资料包供其他医学院与NIH资助的普通临床研究中心(GCRC)等单位联合使用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of this proposal is to improve cancer-related nutrition knowledge and provide individual and small group nutrition-related experiences for medical students in order to enhance their ability to address nutrition issues as physicians in the future. We wish to instill the belief that nutrition is an important and effective way to decrease cancer risk using the experiences of University of Iowa and five other nationally known lecturers from four different cancer research institutions. Specifically, students will undergo self- assessment and experience the process of personal behavior change to achieve this goal. We will evaluate behavior change in actual clinical settings. Our audience will be medical students in Years 1 through 4 of the University of Iowa Roy and Lucille Carver College of Medicine, including medical students in the College of Public Health joint MPH/MD program. Our aim is also to disseminate both strategies and evaluation methods to other medial schools throughout the country. Our specific aims include: 1. To integrate nutrition principles related to cancer prevention into the medical school curriculum and public health graduate school programs. 2. To disseminate both learning strategies and evaluation techniques to medical schools throughout the U.S. To involve other medical schools throughout the U.S. and various departments within the University of Iowa Colleges of Public Health and Medicine so that the nutrition needs of patients of different ages, ethnic groups, and special needs within populations are addressed. A prototype of dissemination has, been piloted through the Nutrition Academic Award (NAA). 3. To continue existing and to develop new infrastructures to maintain nutrition and cancer prevention learning experiences throughout the four-year curriculum and beyond the life of this proposal. To promote research studies in nutrition and cancer prevention at the University of Iowa with dissemination packages for other medical schools to use in conjunction with units such as the NIH-funded General Clinical Research Center (GCRC).