Summer Translational Oncology Program (STOP)

描述（由申请人提供）：约翰霍普金斯大学暑期转化肿瘤学项目（STOP）是一个为期7周的奖学金，为已经完成医学院一年级的美国医学生提供。STOP旨在吸引有前途的医学院学生进入肿瘤学领域，在此期间，他们通常还没有确定具体的职业规划。该计划的策略是通过让学生接触临床实践、实验室研究和社区外展的不同方面，在培训的早期就积极地吸引高积极性的学生。其目标是灌输一种对肿瘤学的持久兴奋感，并鼓励这些学生考虑在肿瘤学专业进行研究生培训。该提案旨在专门资助目前不隶属于nci指定的综合癌症中心的医学院的学员。该项目将在约翰霍普金斯大学Sidney Kimmel综合癌症中心的肿瘤学实验室提供结构化的研究经验，并辅以关于癌症分子基础、现代癌症研究的主要领域、临床肿瘤学的挑战以及减轻癌症健康差异的方法的日常教学报告。内科肿瘤学、外科肿瘤学、儿科肿瘤学和放射肿瘤学服务的半天轮转旨在使研究员接触门诊和住院临床实践。学生们将通过在东巴尔的摩的一家诊所跟随医生为没有保险的病人提供服务来学习社区外展。期刊俱乐部和项目结束研讨会为学生提供正式展示已发表的研究和他们自己的研究成果的机会。这一教育计划的两个具体目标是：1)为即将升入医学院二年级的学生提供研究、临床和拓展经验以及教学指导，这将增加他们对肿瘤学职业的兴趣；2)跟踪STOP毕业生的早期、中期和后期职业阶段，以确定这种教育方法的有效性

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Johns Hopkins Summer Translational Oncology Program (STOP) is a 7 week fellowship for US medical students who have completed their first year of medical school. The STOP is designed to attract promising medical students at an early career stage, during which they are typically undecided about specific career plans, to the field of oncology. The strategy of this proposed program is to actively engage highly motivated students at an early point in their training by exposing them to the different facets of clinical practice, laboratory research and community outreach. The goal is to instill a lasting sense of excitement about oncology, and to encourage these students to consider postgraduate training in an oncological specialty. This proposal is designed to specifically fund trainees from medical schools that are not currently affiliated with an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. This program will provide a structured research experience in the oncology laboratories of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, to be supplemented by daily didactic presentations on the molecular basis of cancer, the major areas of modern cancer research, challenges in clinical oncology, and approaches to alleviating cancer health disparities. Half-day rotations on the medical oncology, surgical oncology, pediatric oncology and radiation oncology services are designed to expose fellows to outpatient and inpatient clinical practice. Students will learn about community outreach by shadowing physicians in a clinic for uninsured patients in East Baltimore. A journal club and an end of program symposium provide students with opportunities to formally present published studies and their own research findings. The two Specific Aims of this proposed educational program are to 1) provide rising second year medical students with research, clinical and outreach experiences and didactic instruction that will increase their interest in careers in oncology, and 2) to track the early, intermediate and later career stages of STOP graduates to determine the effectiveness of this educational approach