Creating Scientists to Address Health Disparities

描述（由申请人提供）：增加来自代表性不足社区的科学家和临床医生的数量已被公认为帮助解决国家癌症差异的一种手段。创造科学家解决癌症差异（CSACD）计划是一个为期12个月的密集的基于实验室的生物行为培训计划，旨在促进代表性不足的社区学院科学专业的成功转移到UCSD，然后到研究生院。学生在社区大学的最后一年参加CSACD。该计划将基础科学和行为科学专业的学生并排放在实验室中，在那里他们学习适合这两个学科理解的基本实验室研究方法。伴随实验室培训的教学培训侧重于为参与者提供对癌症和与癌症差异发展相关的生物行为问题的深入了解。通过这种方法，项目负责人为学生创建了一个模型，说明生物行为科学家的多学科团队如何共同努力解决健康差距。CSACD包括一个为期8周的夏季实验室为基础的丰富计划与研讨会和癌症和癌症的差距和专业发展研讨会和讲习班。这项培训之后，在一名教师导师癌症研究人员的实验室进行为期10个月的实习。持续的支持和培训提供了从夏季计划开始，并通过使用教育Wiki，为学生提供基于互联网的，互动的社会支持网络沿着在线培训的整个10个月的实验室培训。通过培训计划的结论，大多数学生将接近他们转移到UCSD的点。培训计划教师将与学生及其教师导师合作，以确定其他支持和资金来源，以继续学生的实验室培训，包括UCSD的计划和NIH的多样性补充。虽然这些UCSD科学丰富的计划是开放给所有高年级学生，申请这些计划的截止日期使得转学学生不可能进入他们在同一年，他们转移。CSACD将使其转学学生有可能进入这些课程。这个以社区学院为中心的CSACD计划是基于文献和团队之前与已经转入UCSD的UCSD新生和社区学院毕业生的指导经验。CSACD计划有五个明确的目标。已经确定了多种成果，以衡量目标是否已经实现，使用同样严格的数据收集和评估方法，在早期的培训方案中被证明是成功的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Increasing the number of scientists and clinicians from underrepresented communities has been recognized as one means to help address the nation's cancer disparities. The Creating Scientists to Address Cancer Disparities (CSACD) program is an intensive 12-month laboratory-based bio-behavioral training program designed to facilitate underrepresented community college science majors' successful transfer to UCSD and then on to graduate school. Students participate in CSACD during their final year at community college. The program places basic and behavioral science majors side-by-side in the laboratory where they learn basic laboratory research methods appropriate for both disciplines to understand. The didactic training that accompanies the laboratory training focuses on providing participants with a solid understanding of cancer and bio-behavioral issues related to the development of cancer disparities. With this approach, the program leaders create a model for students of how multidisciplinary teams of bio-behavioral scientists can work together to address health disparities. CSACD includes an 8- week summer laboratory-based enrichment program with seminars and workshops on cancer and cancer disparities and professional development. This training is followed by a 10-month placement in the laboratory of a faculty mentor cancer researcher. On-going support and training are provided beginning with the summer program and throughout the 10 months of laboratory training via the use of an educational Wiki that provides students with an Internet-based, interactive social support network along with the online training. By the conclusion of the training program, most students will be nearing the point of their transfer to UCSD. Training program faculty will work with students and their faculty mentors to identify other sources of support and funding to continue the students' laboratory training, including UCSD's programs and NIH diversity supplements. While these UCSD science enrichment programs are open to all upperclassmen, the deadlines for applying to these programs make it impossible for transferring students to gain entry to them in the same year that they transfer. CSACD will make it possible for its transferring students to access these programs. This community college-focused CSACD program is grounded upon the literature and the team's prior mentoring experiences with incoming UCSD freshmen and community college graduates who had already transferred to UCSD. The CSACD program has five clearly defined aims. Multiple outcomes have been identified to measure whether the aims have been accomplished, using the same rigorous data collection and evaluation methods that were proven successful in earlier training programs.