Summer research experiences for medical students supervised by faculty mentors

纪念斯隆-凯特琳癌症中心（MSKCC）暑期学生奖学金计划是一项癌症教育计划，使30名一年级和二年级的美国医学生能够在MSKCC临床教师的指导下参加为期八周的实验室和临床研究。该计划于1977年启动，允许大约1,000名医学生为一个主要学术医学中心的研究企业做出贡献。计划参与者能够与导师和实验室集中参与基础和临床研究工作;参加各种会议和教学法;并学习如何将科学和临床实践的经验教训融合在一起，并向各种受众展示他们的工作。 对于一些学生来说，该计划提供了他们的第一次生物医学研究经验;对于许多人来说，这是他们第一次接触肿瘤学。实验室研究项目集中在分子生物学、细胞生物学、细胞生物化学和生物物理学、免疫学、分子药理学和治疗学、临床研究以及癌症控制和预防。临床研究项目重点关注癌症的诊断和治疗、癌症流行病学、癌症控制和预防、心理社会研究、支持性护理和生活质量问题以及癌症信息外展。该计划的一个关键目标是提高学生对学术医学和肿瘤学职业的兴趣。另一个关键目标是增加代表性不足的少数群体的参与。暑期学生奖学金计划与MSKCC的临床护理，研究和培训多样性计划办公室合作，以增加少数民族参与者的数量。 即将到来的资助周期有四个具体目标：（1）提供最高质量的夏季研究经验，使学生在学术医学中心的背景下进行科学研究的严格性;（2）增加培训机会和课程，以增加学生对翻译研究的了解，（3）保持高素质的少数民族学生在这个程序中的强大代表性，以及（4）扩大正在进行的接触和跟踪工具，以更好地支持计划校友追求癌症研究的努力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) Summer Student Fellowship Program is a cancer education program that enables 30 first- and second-year U.S. medical students to participate in eight weeks of laboratory and clinical research under the mentorship of MSKCC's clinical faculty. Launched in 1977, this program has allowed some 1,000 medical students to contribute to the research enterprise of a major academic medical center. Program participants are able to work with mentors and in laboratories centrally involved in both basic and clinical research; attend a wide range of conferences and didactics; and learn how to blend lessons from science and clinical practice and present their work to a range of audiences. For some students, the program offers their first biomedical research experience; for many, it is their first exposure to oncology. Laboratory research projects concentrate on molecular biology, cell biology, cellular biochemistry and biophysics, immunology, molecular pharmacology and therapeutics, clinical research, and cancer control and prevention. Clinical research projects focus on the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, cancer epidemiology, cancer control and prevention, psychosocial studies, supportive care and quality of life issues, and cancer information outreach. A key goal of the program is to increase students' interest in careers in academic medicine and oncology. Another key goal is to increase participation by underrepresented minorities. The Summer Student Fellowship Program partners with MSKCC's Office of Diversity Programs in Clinical Care, Research and Training to increase the number of minority participants. There are four specific aims for the upcoming grant cycle: (1) to provide the highest quality summer research experience which exposes students to the rigors of scientific investigation within the context of an academic medical center; (2) to promote training opportunities and programming which increase students' understanding of translational research, (3) to maintain the strong representation of highly qualified minority students in this program, and (4) to expand ongoing contact and tracking tools in order to better support the efforts of program alumni to pursue cancer research.