Educational Pathways for Cancer Research (EPCR)

印第安纳州西蒙综合大学癌症研究教育途径（EPCR）的目标 癌症中心（IUSCCC）和印第安纳州布卢明顿大学（IUB）教育学院是提供癌症 为来自代表性不足人群的学生研究职业途径，最终增加 生物医学劳动力的数量和多样性。这一目标将通过以下三个方面来实现： 目标：1）培养中级教师，为学生提供必要的知识， 对医学研究的倾向; 2）为高中教师提供综合实验室研究 经验和课程发展的机会，以提高他们的生物学和癌症相关的教学技能 并为学生创造与科学相关的职业生涯的兴奋;和3）提供指导，高质量， 以癌症为重点的研究经验，沿着教学和专业发展讲习班，以高 学校和早期的本科生从代表性不足的背景，以准备他们的医学，或 癌症相关领域。为实现目标1，45名城乡中级教师将参加专业培训， 发展的重点是基于项目的研究活动，特别强调癌症研究。解决 目标2，利用我们与当地高中教师建立的关系，我们将提供15所高中 教师教育学生从代表性不足的背景与四周的实验室研究 经验和参与课程开发活动，将癌症相关主题纳入 国家课程。与教师及其学校的关系将通过实地考察持续一年。 旅行和学校旅行。为实现目标3，每年将招募30名高中/大学生受训人员， 两年中每年花三个月进行癌症研究。项目学员将获得提高 实验室和研究技能，包括对癌症研究企业和病人护理的欣赏， 了解职业机会，并与导师建立长期的学术关系。项目评估 将定期评估EPCR是否达到基准和里程碑。基准包括： 在初中和高中开设与癌症有关的课程， 和高中教师，可以归因于参与EPCR，我们的高中和本科 在健康科学，特别是癌症研究方面寻求职业生涯的学员。约60名教师 具有研究项目和指导培训和经验的教师将担任导师，其他教师将 根据需要招聘。EPCR延续了我们之前CURE计划的成功，并将范围扩大到 履行IUSCCC的使命，教育来自不同背景的学生和教师 他们将成为癌症研究和知识的大使。

The aim of Educational Pathways for Cancer Research (EPCR) at the Indiana University Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center (IUSCCC) and the Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) School of Education is to provide cancer research career pathways for students from underrepresented populations in a manner that ultimately increases the quantity of and diversity within the biomedical workforce. This aim will be achieved by focusing on three goals: 1) Prepare middle-level teachers to provide their students with the prerequisite knowledge and dispositions toward medical research; 2) Provide high school teachers with integrated laboratory research experience and curriculum development opportunities to enhance their biology and cancer-related teaching skills and to create excitement for their students for science-related careers; and 3) Provide mentored, high-quality, cancer-focused research experiences along with didactic and professional development workshops to high school and early undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds to prepare them for medicine-, or cancer-related fields. To address goal 1, 45 urban and rural middle-level teachers will take part in professional development focused on project-based research activities, specifically highlighting cancer research. To address goal 2, using our established relationships with local high school teachers, we will provide 15 high school teachers educating students from underrepresented backgrounds with four weeks of laboratory research experience and participation in curriculum development activities that integrate cancer-related topics into the state curriculum. Relationships with teachers and their schools will continue throughout the year through field trips and school trips. To address goal 3, 30 high school/undergraduate trainees will be recruited every year to spend three months for each of two years performing cancer research. Project trainees will gain enhanced laboratory and research skills, including appreciation of the cancer research enterprise and patient care, understanding of career opportunities, and a long-term academic relationship with mentors. Program evaluation will periodically assess EPCR for meeting benchmarks and achieving milestones. Benchmarks include the development of cancer-related curriculum at middle and high school levels, advancement in the careers of middle and high school teachers that can be attributed to participation in EPCR, and our high school and undergraduate trainees pursuing careers in health sciences, particularly cancer research. Approximately 60 faculty members with research programs and mentoring training and experience will serve as mentors, and additional faculty will be recruited as needed. EPCR continues the success of our previous CURE program and expands the scope to fulfill the mission of the IUSCCC to educate students and teachers from diverse backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical research who will become ambassadors for cancer research and knowledge.