Creating Scientists to Address Health Disparities

描述（由申请人提供）：增加来自代表性不足的社区的科学家和临床医生的数量已被认为是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）项目是一个为期12个月的以实验室为基础的强化生物行为训练项目，旨在促进代表性不足的社区大学科学专业学生成功转到加州大学圣地亚哥分校，然后再转到研究生院。学生在社区大学的最后一年参加CSACD。该项目将基础科学和行为科学专业的学生放在实验室里，在那里他们学习适合这两个学科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与癌症差异发展相关的癌症和生物行为问题的深刻理解。通过这种方法，项目负责人为学生们创造了一个模式，让他们了解多学科生物行为科学家团队如何共同努力解决健康差距问题。CSACD包括一个为期8周的夏季实验室强化项目，包括关于癌症、癌症差异和专业发展的研讨会和讲习班。培训结束后，他们将在一位癌症研究导师的实验室里进行为期10个月的实习。持续的支持和培训从夏季项目开始，贯穿10个月的实验室培训，通过使用教育Wiki，为学生提供基于互联网的交互式社会支持网络以及在线培训。在培训项目结束时，大多数学生将接近转学到加州大学圣地亚哥分校的阶段。培训项目的教师将与学生及其教师导师合作，确定其他支持和资金来源，以继续学生的实验室培训，包括加州大学圣地亚哥分校的项目和NIH的多样性补充。虽然加州大学圣地亚哥分校的这些科学充实项目对所有高年级学生开放，但这些项目的申请截止日期使得转学生不可能在同年转到这些项目。CSACD将使其转学学生有可能参加这些课程。这个以社区大学为重点的CSACD项目是基于文献和团队之前对即将进入加州大学圣地亚哥分校的新生和已经转到加州大学圣地亚哥分校的社区大学毕业生的指导经验。CSACD项目有五个明确的目标。多个结果已经确定，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，证明在早期的培训项目是成功的。

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.