Research Education Core

总结 我们的研究教育计划的主要目标是增加少数民族研究人员的数量和质量 致力于对癌症研究产生影响我们有一个以前建立的研究教育 该计划支持梅哈里医学院（MMC）医学生的夏季癌症研究， 范德比尔特;田纳西州立大学（大津）本科生暑期研究;并提供支持 为MMC和大津州立大学的研究生开设。这些计划已被证明是成功的，在进步的学生， 从事癌症研究。在这个应用程序中，我们的重点是让学生尽早参与研究， 以增加招聘和保留到研究生课程和职业生涯中的癌症研究。心中如此 我想，我们建议正式制定一个探索之路计划，招募高中三年级和四年级的学生， 癌症研究，并通过研究生/医学院继续这种经验，特别注重 代表性不足的少数民族（URM）。我们的伙伴关系特别适合针对非裔美国人或黑人， 西班牙裔或拉丁裔学生在本科（大津）和研究生水平（MMC和大津）。高 学校的学生将从纳什维尔大都市的两所学术STEM磁铁学校招募 URM学生人数占主导地位的学区。为了实现我们的目标，我们建议 的目标。在aim 1中，我们将实施一个提供早期和持续研究的途径计划 教育高中和本科生利用癌症研究的机会，在我们的 伙伴关系机构。这将通过以下方式实现：1）高中癌症研究经验（HSCRE） 无论是在夏季和学年与奖学金的机会和多层同行和教师 指导; 2）夏季和学年的早期本科癌症研究经验（EUCRE） 提供参与通过同行和教师指导支持的项目的机会;以及3）a 晚期本科生癌症研究经验（LUCRE）在夏季和学年进行 独立研究项目。在目标2中，我们建议招聘和支持硕士和博士 研究生从事癌症研究，以使癌症研究人员多样化， 发展癌症差异领域的研究兴趣。最后，在目标3中，我们提供了研究性教育， 医学生有机会为临床人口科学和转化癌症研究做出贡献 关注癌症差异。

Summary The main goal of our research education program is to increase the number and quality of minority researchers dedicated to making an impact on cancer research. We have a previously established research education program that supports summer cancer research for medical students at Meharry Medical College (MMC) and Vanderbilt; summer research for undergraduates at Tennessee State University (TSU); and provides support for graduate students at MMC and TSU. These programs have proven successful at progressing students into careers in cancer research. In this application our focus is to engage students early in a research path in order to augment recruitment and retention into graduate programs and careers in cancer research. With that in mind, we propose to formalize a Pathway to Discovery Program to recruit high school juniors and seniors into cancer research and continue this experience through graduate/medical school, with particular focus on underrepresented minorities (URM). Our Partnership is particularly suited to target African American or Black, Hispanic or Latino students at the undergraduate (TSU) and graduate student level (MMC and TSU). High school students will be recruited from two academic STEM magnet schools in the Nashville metropolitan school district with predominant URM student population profiles. In order to achieve our goal, we propose the following aims. In aim 1, we will implement a pathway program that provides early and continuous research education for high school and undergraduate students leveraging the cancer research opportunities at our Partnership Institutions. This will be accomplished with : 1) a high school cancer research experience (HSCRE) both in the summer and academic year with scholarship opportunities and multi-tier peer and faculty mentoring; 2) early undergraduate cancer research experience (EUCRE) in the summer and academic year providing the opportunity for engagement in projects supported through peer and faculty mentoring; and 3) a late undergraduate cancer research experience (LUCRE) in the summer and academic year to conduct mentored-independent research projects. In aim 2, we propose to recruit and support master and doctoral graduate students to engage in cancer research in order to diversify the cancer research workforce and develop research interests in the area of cancer disparities. Finally, in aim 3, we provide research educational opportunities to medical students to contribute to clinical population sciences and translational cancer research with focus on cancer disparities.