Training Program in Cancer-Related Population Sciences

描述(由申请人提供)：在过去的4年里，哥伦比亚大学梅尔曼公共卫生学院一直在为人口科学领域的癌症研究人员提供NCI资助的R25T培训计划。像我们长期的T32项目一样，R25项目是由三个系的教员合作完成的：流行病学、生物统计学和环境健康科学。越来越多地，癌症相关人口科学的研究人员不仅需要各自特定学科的专业知识，还需要广泛的多学科视角，包括对分子遗传学、临床肿瘤学、毒理学、卫生服务和健康结果研究以及行为科学的肤浅理解。R25每年为6名学员(3名博士后和3名博士后)提供癌症预防和控制方面的跨学科教育、深入的研究经验，以及接触到拥有众多癌症研究项目的人口科学方面的大量教员。该项目的毕业生已经进入了享有盛名的学术和研究岗位。 在这次竞争性更新中，我们建议通过提供更多关于临床癌症遗传学、卫生经济学和癌症基础生物学的培训来扩大我们的计划。除了公共卫生学院的必修和推荐课程外，我们的项目还提供创新的专业课程，在第二年为学员提供为期两个月的个性化模块，让学员在以下方面亲身体验：临床环境中的数据收集和面谈；行为研究；实验室研究；健康服务和结果；临床肿瘤学和数据分析。每个受训人员都被要求参加病理学、研究伦理和研究资助方面的课程；进行一项以其专业为重点的深入的多学科项目；以及每年在一次多学科每周会议上做两次演讲。受训者有机会参加癌症会议和他们所在学科的会议，并被鼓励但不被要求在这些会议上发表演讲。博士后实习生被要求提交研究资助提案，供教师进行模拟同行评审。对于这一专业项目，我们建议将受训人员从6名(3名博士后，3名博士后)减少到5名(1名博士后，4名博士后)；增加一名负责日常运作的项目协调员；实施更详细的评估计划；并在负责监督受训人员招募、表现和评估的咨询委员会中增加一个由三名杰出科学家/教育工作者组成的外部咨询委员会。我们的R25培训计划利用了赫伯特·欧文综合癌症中心、纽约长老会医院、哈莱姆医院、华盛顿高地/哈莱姆社区和纽约市丰富的研究环境。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For the past 4 years, the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University has had an NCI-funded R25T Training Program for cancer investigators in Population Sciences. Like our longstanding T32 program, the R25 program is a collaboration of faculty in three departments: Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health Sciences. Increasingly, investigators in cancer-related population sciences require not only expertise in their own specific disciplines but a broad-based multidisciplinary perspective, including a more than superficial understanding of molecular genetics, clinical oncology, toxicology, health services and health outcomes research, and behavioral sciences. The R25 provides 6 trainees (3 pre- and 3 postdoctoral) annually with cross-disciplinary education in cancer prevention and control, an in-depth research experience, and access to a large faculty in the population sciences with numerous funded research projects in cancer. Graduates of the program have gone on to prestigious academic and research positions. In this competing renewal, we propose to extend our program by providing more training in clinical cancer genetics, health economics, and the basic biology of cancer. In addition to required and recommended courses within the School of Public Health, our program offers an innovative specialized curriculum, with 2-month individualized modules in year 2 giving trainees hands-on experience in: data collection and interviewing in a clinical setting; behavioral research; laboratory research; health services and outcomes; clinical oncology, and data analysis. Each trainee is required to take courses in pathology, research ethics, and research funding; to undertake an in-depth multidisciplinary project with a focus in his/her specialty; and to make two presentations/year at a multidisciplinary weekly conference. Trainees have the opportunity to attend cancer meetings and meetings in their discipline and are encouraged but not required to make presentations at those meetings. Postdoctoral trainees are required to submit research grant proposals for mock peer review by the faculty. For this specialized program, we propose to reduce our trainees from 6 (3 pre-, 3 postdoctoral) to 5 (1 pre-, 4 postdoctoral); to add a Program Coordinator for day-to- day operations; to implement a more detailed evaluation plan; and to add to our Advisory Committee, which oversees recruitment, performance and evaluation of the trainees, an external advisory committee of three outstanding scientist/educators. Our R25 Training Program utilizes the rich research environment of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Harlem Hospital, the Washington Heights/Harlem communities, and New York City.