TCI Mentored Medical Student Summer Scholars (TCI-MMSSS) Program

我们的Tisch癌症研究所（TCI）指导医学生暑期学者（TCI-MMSSS）的目标 该计划旨在激励医学生通过参与癌症研究， 创新的，高度结构化的计划，强烈的指导研究和互动课程活动。我们 该计划建立在一个成功的基础上，为期10周的试点倡议，夏季辅导研究 医学生的经验，其中69%的参与者（上升的第二年医学生） 已经完成或已经承诺与导师一起进行额外一年的研究。我们 拟议的15周严格指导的研究经验，旨在招募特殊的，高度 积极主动的学生对癌症研究感兴趣，并通过新颖的教学方法来丰富学生的知识， 创新和培育的学习环境，使用战略精心制作的癌症研究基础101 (CRF 101）课程，以推进研究知识，心态和技能。我们的计划利用了 经验丰富的指导能力和TCI科学计划的科学优势，包括癌症 免疫学（CI）、癌症机制（CM）、癌症临床研究（CCI）和癌症预防和 控制（CPC），以及我们在健康公平和健康差异研究方面的公认专业知识。我们 该计划还通过在社区的基础，转化，临床和人口研究的卓越通知- 公认的流域相关癌症，包括肝癌、肺癌、多发性骨髓瘤、HIV相关恶性肿瘤和 前列腺癌以及乳腺癌、胃肠癌和骨髓增生性肿瘤。我们的计划Multi-PI 领导团队反映了博士前教育和医学生研究的互补专业知识， 确保每个参加TCI-MMSSS的学生实现癌症研究的潜力 程序.我们提出了一个全面的评估过程，结合有效的工具来评估学生， 导师，并提出整体方案，以实现持续质量改进，并提出遵循方案 校友几年来获得纵向成果，以评估癌症研究融入医疗 careers.

The goal of our Tisch Cancer Institute (TCI) Mentored Medical Student Summer Scholars (TCI-MMSSS) Program is to inspire medical students to pursue careers in cancer research through engagement in an innovative, highly structured program of strongly mentored research and interactive curricular activities. Our program builds upon the foundation of a successful 10 week pilot initiative of a summer mentored research experience for medical students in which 69% of participants (rising second year medical students) have either already completed or have committed to pursuing an additional year of research with their mentors. Our proposed 15 week rigorously mentored research experience is designed to recruit exceptional, and highly motivated students interested in cancer research and enriched by novel pedagogical approaches to foster an innovative and nurturing learning environment using a strategically crafted Cancer Research Fundamental 101 (CRF 101) curriculum to advance research knowledge, mindset and skills. Our program leverages the seasoned mentoring capacity and scientific strengths of the TCI scientific programs including Cancer Immunology (CI), Cancer Mechanisms (CM), Cancer Clinical Investigations (CCI), and Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC), as well as our acknowledged expertise in health equity and health disparities research. Our program is also informed by excellence in basic, translational, clinical and population research in community- recognized catchment-relevant cancers including Liver, Lung, Multiple Myeloma, HIV-related malignancies and Prostate Cancer as well as Breast, Gastrointestinal and Myeloproliferative Neoplasms. Our program Multi-PI Leadership team reflects complementary expertise in pre-doctoral education and medical student research to ensure the realization of potential for cancer research by each student participating in the TCI-MMSSS Program. We propose a holistic valuation process that incorporates validated tools to evaluate students, mentors, and the overall program to achieve continuous quality improvement and propose to follow program alumni over several years to obtain longitudinal outcomes to assess integration of cancer research into medical careers.