Training Program in Cancer-Related Population Sciences

描述(由申请人提供)：在过去的9年里，哥伦比亚大学梅尔曼公共卫生学院一直在为人口科学领域的癌症研究人员提供NCI资助的R25T培训计划。与我们长期的T32计划一样，R25计划是教员之间的合作，主要是流行病学、生物统计学和环境健康科学，他们有许多资助的癌症相关研究项目，学员可以参与其中。然而，R25项目强调跨学科培训。除了参加公共卫生学院的必修和推荐课程外，R25学员还通过独特的个性化模块轮流学习，提供研究设计和数据收集、行为研究、实验室研究、健康服务和结果、临床肿瘤学和数据分析方面的实践经验。受训人员还需要参加癌症生物学、研究伦理和研究资金方面的课程；进行一个以其专业为重点的深入的多学科项目；以及每年在我们的每周多学科会议上做两次演讲。受训者有机会参加癌症会议和他们所在学科的会议，并被鼓励(但不是必需的)在这些会议上发表演讲。博士后实习生被要求准备并提交研究资助提案，供教师进行模拟同行评审。从我们的R25项目毕业的10名博士后实习生中，有8人现在担任教职，其中6人获得了NIH K奖项。 在这次竞争性更新中，我们建议加强我们在健康结果/服务研究、卫生经济学和癌症基础生物学方面的培训；实施更详细的评估计划；增加我们的咨询委员会，该委员会负责监督学员的招募、表现和评估；并继续与由3名杰出科学家/教育工作者组成的外部咨询委员会进行咨询。R25每年为5名(1名博士后和4名博士后)学员提供支持。鉴于我们在博士后培训方面取得的成功，我们现在建议只向拥有博士学位的人提供R25实习名额。为了保持项目的连续性和质量，我们还为PI指定了未来的继任者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For the past 9 years, the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University has had an NCI-funded R25T Training Program for cancer investigators in the Population Sciences. Like our longstanding T32 program, the R25 program is a collaboration of faculty, predominantly in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health Sciences, who have numerous funded cancer-related research projects on which trainees can work. However, the R25 program emphasizes cross-disciplinary training. In addition to taking required and recommended courses in the School of Public Health, R25 trainees rotate through unique individualized modules providing hands-on experience in study design and data collection; behavioral research; laboratory research; health services and outcomes; clinical oncology, and data analysis. Trainees are also required to take courses in cancer biology, research ethics, and research funding; to undertake an in-depth multidisciplinary project with a focus in their specialty; and to make two presentations per year at our weekly multidisciplinary conference. Trainees have the opportunity to attend cancer meetings and meetings in their discipline and are encouraged (but not required) to make presentations at those meetings. Postdoctoral trainees are required to prepare and submit research grant proposals for mock peer review by the faculty. Of the 10 postdoctoral trainees who have graduated from our R25 program, 8 now hold faculty appointments, and 6 of the 8 have NIH K awards. In this competing renewal, we propose to enhance our training in health outcomes/services research, health economics, and the basic biology of cancer; to implement a more detailed evaluation plan; to add to our Advisory Committee, which oversees recruitment, performance and evaluation of the trainees; and to continue consulting with our external advisory committee of 3 outstanding scientist/educators. The R25 has provided support for 5 (1 pre- and 4 postdoctoral) trainees annually. Given our success in postdoctoral training, we now propose to offer R25 traineeships only to holders of a doctoral degree. To maintain the continuity and quality of the program, we have also designated a future successor for the PI.