Roswell Park Summer Internship Programs in Cancer Sciences and Oncology

描述(由申请人提供)：对于决定自己未来职业或专业的学生，实习提供了对该领域专业人士生活的重要洞察。实习生培养了对专业实践的认识，掌握了技能和方法，并在大多数情况下，进一步鼓励他在该领域继续学习。癌症领域的实习机会 随着我国人口老龄化和癌症对医疗保健的影响不断增加，对于鼓励更多的科学家和临床医生关注癌症以满足我们日益增长的需求的目标来说，研究越来越重要。凭借61年的经验，罗斯韦尔公园肿瘤学和癌症科学暑期研究体验项目将继续为大学四年级新生(10周)和二年级医学、牙科和医生助理学生(8周)提供暑期实习机会。它的目标是为学生提供有关临床和研究职业的决策信息，激励他们从事癌症研究，并赋予他们基本的研究和沟通技能。每个实习生都与一名医生或科学家配对，在导师的诊所或实验室工作，探索专业和工作环境的需求，为正在进行的研究或临床操作做出贡献，并通过口头和海报演示报告结果。这些实习是在NIH指定的综合癌症中心的独特环境中进行的，在那里，临床和研究操作紧密地交织在翻译研究的结构中。实习生将通过教师演示和卫生专业与大学队列团体之间的近乎同行的指导计划，具体探索基础、人口、转化和临床试验研究的连续进展。在从癌症医生和研究人员中代表性较低的群体招聘实习生的战略中，已经与霍华德大学(历史上领先的黑人学院/大学)建立了创新的合作伙伴关系，为定向阅读课程的二年级和三年级荣誉学生提供远程指导。罗斯威尔公园的教职员工、博士后实习生和研究生将每两周与霍华德荣誉学生举行电话会议，讨论初级科学文献。这个试点的实习前远程指导计划将允许霍华德的学生在已经学习了导师研究领域的文献后，进入罗斯威尔公园的暑期实习。暑期研究体验项目的成功与否将取决于实习生在多大程度上被鼓励从事涉及生物医学研究的职业，尤其是在癌症领域。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For a student deciding on his or her future career or specialty, an internship provides critical insights into the lives of professionals in that field. he intern develops an awareness of the professional practices, masters skills and methods, and, in the majority of cases, is further encouraged to continue study in that field. Internships in cancer research are increasing vital to the goal of encouraging greater numbers of scientists and clinicians to focus on cancer to meet our growing need as our nation's population ages and cancer's impact on healthcare continues to increase. With sixty-one years of experience, the Roswell Park Summer Research Experience Programs in Oncology and the Cancer Sciences will continue offering summer internships to rising college seniors (10-weeks) and rising second-year medical, dental, and physician assistant students (8-weeks). Its goals are to inform students' decisions regarding clinical and research careers, motivate them to pursue cancer research, and give them essential research and communication skills. Each intern is matched to a physician or scientist, works in the mentor's clinic or lab, explores the demands of the profession and work environment, contributes to the ongoing research or clinical operations, and reports on their results through oral and poster presentations. These internships occur in the unique environment of an NIH-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center where clinical and research operations are tightly interwoven within the fabric of translational research. Interns wil specifically explore the continuum of progress across basic, population, translational, and clinical trial research through faculty presentations and a program of near-peer mentorship between the health profession and college cohort groups. Among the strategies to recruit interns from groups underrepresented among cancer physicians and researchers, an innovative partnership with Howard University (a leading Historically Black College/University) has been established to provide telementorship to sophomore and junior honors students in their Directed Reading courses. Roswell Park faculty, post-doctoral trainees, and graduate students will teleconference with their Howard honors students bi-weekly to discuss primary scientific literature. This pilot pre-internship telementorship program will allow Howard students to arrive at their Roswell Park summer internship having already studied the literature from their mentor's research area. The success of the Summer Research Experience Programs will be measured by the degree to which interns are encouraged to pursue careers involving biomedical research, optimally in the cancer field.