Behavioral Oncology Education & Career Development

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案是响应PAR-10-165（NCI癌症教育和职业发展计划）提交的竞争性续期申请。根据计划公告，我们寻求继续资助莫菲特癌症中心行为肿瘤学博士后培训计划，该计划于2003年首次资助，在高度跨学科和协作的癌症研究环境中培训博士后候选人。具体目标是：1）继续发展和完善依赖于莫菲特癌症中心和南佛罗里达大学的教师和资源的行为肿瘤学研究的博士后培训计划; 2）招募一批致力于行为肿瘤学研究人员职业生涯的有前途的学员;以及3）为这些受训者提供成为行为肿瘤学中成功的独立研究者所需的知识、技能、机会和指导。该培训计划建立在具有行为科学，人口科学，健康传播，护理和医学背景的研究人员之间广泛而富有成效的合作基础上。这些研究人员都是南佛罗里达大学的教师，也是莫菲特癌症中心健康结果和行为研究项目的成员，该项目在该中心最近的NCI癌症中心支持补助金更新中被评为优秀。该计划的一个关键特征是开发和完善行为肿瘤学专业课程，该课程在我们的机构中不可用，并以必要的方式与该计划的培训目标和目的相联系。如申请书所述，这一专门课程包括一年级和二年级学员所需的核心课程和选修课程，旨在提供个性化培训，由每个学员与其培训委员会协商选择。自上一次竞争性更新以来，该计划继续成功吸引了一批有才华和多样化的申请人，从这一群体中招募最好的申请人，并为招募的学员提供成为行为肿瘤学领域成功的独立研究者所需的技能，经验和指导。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is a competitive renewal application submitted in response to PAR-10-165 (NCI Cancer Education and Career Development Program). In accordance with the program announcement, we seek continued funding for the Moffitt Cancer Center Post- Doctoral Training Program in Behavioral Oncology, a program first funded in 2003 that trains postdoctoral candidates in cancer research settings that are highly interdisciplinary and collaborative. Specific aims are to: 1) continue the development and refinement of a curriculum-dependent post-doctoral training program in behavioral oncology research that draws upon the faculty and resources of the Moffitt Cancer Center and the University of South Florida; 2) recruit a diverse group of promising trainees who are committed to careers as researchers in behavioral oncology; and 3) provide these trainees with the knowledge, skills, opportunities, and mentoring needed to become successful independent investigators in behavioral oncology. The training program builds on extensive and productive collaborations among researchers with backgrounds in behavioral science, population science, health communications, nursing, and medicine. These researchers are all faculty at the University of South Florida and members of the Health Outcomes and Behavior Research Program at Moffitt Cancer Center, which was rated Exceptional at the Center's most recent NCI Cancer Center Support Grant renewal. A key feature of this program has been the development and refinement of a specialized curriculum in behavioral oncology not otherwise available at our institution that is linked in an essential manner to the program's training goals and objectives. A described in the application, this specialized curriculum consists of a core curriculum required for both first-year and second-year trainees and an elective curriculum, designed to provide individualized training, that is selected by each trainee in consultation with his/her training committee. Since the last competitive renewal, the program has continued to be successful in attracting a talented and diverse pool of applicants, recruiting the best applicants from this pool and providing the trainees recruited with the skills, experiences, and mentoring necessary for becoming successful independent investigators in the field of behavioral oncology.