Creating Scientists to Address Cancer Disparities

 描述（由申请人提供）：增加来自代表性不足社区的科学家和临床医生的数量被认为是帮助减少国家癌症差异的一种手段。创建科学家解决癌症差异计划（CSP）是一个密集的生物行为科学培训计划，旨在促进代表性不足的社区学院科学专业的学生（CSP学者）成功转移到UCSD和SDSU，然后进入研究生院。转学学生开始CSP在夏天之前，他们转移，并继续接受指导CSP教师在整个剩余的大学岁月。该计划有基础和行为科学专业的工作和学习并排在公共卫生社区为基础的实验室作为生物行为科学家的多学科团队如何共同努力，以解决健康差距的模式。CSP以为期8周的公共卫生实验室暑期科学充实计划（SSEP）开始。SSEP包括研讨会，让学生对癌症和与癌症差异发展相关的生物行为问题有深入的了解。它还包括研讨会，以增加参与者成功进入研究生院及以后的可能性。学生还学习各种实践研究方法，在该领域使用，因为他们在社区校园合作伙伴关系中工作。实地经验将确保他们获得如何识别，研究和解决健康差距的工作知识。这个夏季培训之后是持续的学术培训和指导，通过所需的10个月的实验室实习，在PI的公共卫生实验室至少有一个学分。在为期12个月的培训中，学生将准备并提交摘要，以在国家科学会议上展示他们的研究成果。每个CSP学者将与项目教师合作，确定其他支持和资金来源，以继续学者的实验室经验超过他们的前12个月。CSP将使其转学学生有可能进入转学学生第一年通常无法进入的课程。这个以社区学院为重点的CSP是基于文献和团队目前的R25E赠款，促进社区学院学生成功转移到UCSD和SDSU。CSP使用在早期培训计划中被证明成功的同样严格的数据收集和评估方法，明确定义了可衡量的成果，以评估其成功。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Increasing the number of scientists and clinicians from underrepresented communities has been recognized as one means to help reduce the nation's cancer disparities. The Creating Scientists to Address Cancer Disparities Program (CSP) is an intensive bio-behavioral science training program designed to facilitate underrepresented community college science majors' (CSP scholars) successful transfer to UCSD and SDSU followed by their matriculation into graduate school. Transferring students begin the CSP during the summer before they transfer and continue to receive mentoring from CSP faculty throughout the remainder of their college years. The program has basic and behavioral science majors working and learning side-by-side in a public health community-based laboratory as a model of how multidisciplinary teams of bio-behavioral scientists can work together to address health disparities. CSP begins with an 8-week public health laboratory- based Summer Science Enrichment Program (SSEP). The SSEP includes seminars to give students a solid understanding of cancer and bio-behavioral issues related to the development of cancer disparities. It also includes workshops to increase participants' likelihood of successfu progression into graduate school and beyond. Students also learn a variety of hands-on research methods to use in the field, as they work within community-campus partnerships. The field experience will assure that they gain a working knowledge of how to identify, research, and resolve health disparities. This summer training is followed by continued academic training and mentoring via a required 10-month lab placement for a minimum of one academic credit in the PIs' public health laboratory. During this 12 month-long training, students will prepare and submit an abstract to present their research findings at a national scientific conference. Each CSP scholar will work with program faculty to identify other sources of support and funding to continue the scholars' laboratory experiences beyond their first 12 months. CSP will make it possible for its transferring students to access programs that are not normally accessible in transferring students' first year. This community college-focused CSP is grounded upon the literature and the team's current R25E grant that facilitates community college students' successful transfer to UCSD and SDSU. The CSP has clearly defined, measurable outcomes for assessing its success, using the same rigorous data collection and evaluation methods that were proven successful in earlier training programs.