M.D. Anderson Education Program in Cancer Prevention

描述(由申请人提供)：拟议的癌症预防教育计划续期将继续支持8个博士后和8个博士后(博士后)实习生职位。该项目已经成功地培训了80多名新的调查人员，并连续资助了14年(R25 CA57730)。学员来自基础生物医学、生物医学统计学、流行病学、遗传学、行为和社会科学、护理学、医学和相关公共卫生学科。招募妇女(60%)和少数族裔受训人员(27%)非常成功。受训者在两级评审过程中根据他们提出的教育目标和指导研究项目的优点进行挑选。我们的咨询委员会和癌症预防领域的外部评审员小组都对以K07类格式创建的申请者提案进行了审查。这些建议描述了一个量身定做的教育计划，包括课程、时间表、研究项目和教育目标。每个计划都基于在至少两名来自不同学科的成熟研究人员的指导下进行的同行评议的癌症预防研究项目中的实践经验。该项目的成功激发了教职员工指导学员的热情，已有65名教职员工指导或共同指导了我们的学员。学员参加了一个多学科课程，其中包括癌症生物学、癌症预防和公共卫生、行为科学等核心课程，以及拨款撰写和公共演讲等专业技能方面的特别研讨会。博士后研究员需要在培训期间准备和提交资助申请。学员可以使用M.D.安德森现有的患者和研究数据库中的许多资源，并可以访问大量人群进行预防干预研究；学员通过他们的教师导师可以获得的其他资源包括广泛的实验室和临床设施。该计划继续吸引有前途的受训人员从事癌症预防工作，指导他们的研究，并以癌症预防研究为重点开始他们的职业生涯。从1992年开始，该方案有4个实习生职位，现已逐步增加到目前的16个职位。在同一时期，癌症预防方面的教员规模和资助的研究增加了八倍多，提供了重要的培训资源。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed renewal of the Education Program in Cancer Prevention will continue to support eight postdoctoral and eight predoctoral (post-Master's) trainee positions. This Program has successfully trained more than 80 new investigators and has been continuously funded (R25 CA57730) for 14 years. Trainees are recruited from the basic biomedical sciences, biomedical statistics, epidemiology, genetics, behavioral and social sciences, nursing, medicine, and related public health disciplines. Recruitment of women (60%) and minority trainees (27%) has been highly successful. Trainees are selected in a 2-level review process based on the merit of their proposed educational objectives and mentored research projects. Applicant proposals, created in a K07-like format, are reviewed by both our Advisory Committee and a panel of external reviewers in the field of cancer prevention. These proposals describe a tailored educational plan including coursework, a timeline, research project, and educational objectives. Each plan is based on hands-on experience in ongoing peer-reviewed cancer prevention research projects under the mentorship of at least two established investigators from different disciplines. The success of this program has stimulated the faculty's enthusiasm for mentoring trainees, with 65 faculty having mentored or co-mentored our trainees. Trainees participate in a multidisciplinary curriculum that includes a core curriculum in cancer biology, cancer prevention, and public health, and the behavioral sciences, plus special workshops in professional skills such as grant writing and public speaking. Postdoctoral fellows are required to prepare and submit grant applications during their training. Trainees have access to many resources at M. D. Anderson in its existing patient and research databases and access to large populations for prevention intervention studies; other resources available to trainees through their faculty mentors include extensive laboratory and clinical facilities. This program continues to attract promising trainees to careers in cancer prevention, to mentor their research, and to launch their careers with a cancer prevention research focus. Starting in 1992 with 4 trainee positions, the program has gradually increased its capacity to the present level of 16 positions. During this same period, the size of the faculty and funded research in cancer prevention has grown more than eight-fold, providing a significant training resource.