Administrative Core

在拟议中心的行政核心内，我们将实现我们的培训和职业发展

Within the proposed Center's Administration Core, we will achieve our Training and Career Development objectives by building on the CRN Investigator Development program, which nurtures and develops junior investigators through the CRN Scholars Program. CRN Scholars work with a local faculty mentor in developing pilot studies and writing manuscripts. This year fourteen Scholars participate at eleven sites. Similarly, we will model the design and administration of Developmental Project awards on the established CRN Pilot Project process. In order to disburse these funds, the current CRN system (calls for proposals, application forms, etc.) will be modified to fit the goals of the proposed Center. We will access and use the Organizational Advisory Committees of each of the 14 CRN institutions as a gateway for administering formative and summative data-collection instruments, for identifying informal local opinion leaders, for identification of cancer communication initiatives within the Discovery Core, and as sounding boards for potential collaborations and dissemination activities. The Organizational Advisory Committees are comprised of key organizational leaders representing cancer care clinicians, lead administrators, and data systems experts. We have been invited to use two websites already established by the CRN: One that is publicly available through NCI, and one that is accessible to participating CRN sites (investigators and other staff). The Dissemination Core in the proposed Center will utilize both of these sites as points of access for making practice-based tools and protocols available to CRN practitioners and administrators, for announcing research findings, for releasing calls for developmental projects, for advertising training and career development activities, and in other applied dissemination activities. An important research use of the CRN website will be to establish and link Implementation Support Websites for targeted sets of practitioners across the CRN institutions, such as all nurse oncologists in the 14 integrated delivery systems, so that effective practices can be demonstrated and adaptations clarified for site visitors.