Behavioral Oncology Education & Career Development

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案是根据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。根据项目公告，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项目，该项目于2003年首次资助，旨在培养癌症研究领域的博士后候选人，这些博士后候选人需要高度跨学科和协作性。具体目标是：1)利用莫菲特癌症中心和南佛罗里达大学的教师和资源，继续发展和完善行为肿瘤学研究的课程依赖博士后培训计划；2)招募一群有前途的学员，他们致力于行为肿瘤学的研究；3)为这些学员提供成为行为肿瘤学领域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、卫生传播、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癌症中心支持资助更新中被评为杰出。该项目的一个关键特点是开发和完善了本机构无法提供的行为肿瘤学专业课程，该课程与项目的培训目标和目的有重要联系。如申请中所述，该专业课程由一年级和二年级学员所需的核心课程和选修课程组成，旨在提供个性化培训，由每位学员与培训委员会协商后选择。自上次竞争性更新以来，该项目继续成功地吸引了有才华和多样化的申请者，从这些申请者中招募了最优秀的申请者，并为被招募的学员提供了成为行为肿瘤学领域成功的独立研究者所必需的技能、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.