Utah Advanced Course on Mentorship and Leadership on Cancer-Related Health Disparities

摘要 犹他州指导、领导力和癌症相关高级课程的总体目标 健康差距是提供创新的最先进的、以证据为基础的职业发展 为目前的NCI受赠者提供的经验，以提高他们在领导、指导和癌症差异方面的技能 为成功过渡到独立的学术生涯而进行的研究。我们的长远目标是加强 培训劳动力以满足国家的生物医学、行为和临床研究需求 最终减轻美国不同社区的癌症负担。我们的 研究团队和教职员工在提供高影响力的研究教育和 在地方和全国范围内对早期职业调查员进行培训。我们带来了专业的指导和 领导力培训、社区参与奖学金、癌症相关数据库 犹他州独有的，以及癌症联盟提供的网络机会。我们的具体目标是： 1)与协调中心合作，招募NCI受资助者加入犹他州UE5计划。 2)通过互动的循证教育，提高项目参与者的指导技能 经历。我们将使用面对面和新颖的教育技术相结合的方式来提供指导 培训领域，如建立有效的指导团队，成为同行的有效导师，提供 具有文化意识的指导，并准备竞争性的拨款申请，包括模拟研究部分。 3)以互动和体验式的方式加强项目参与者的领导能力 计划提高他们的领导技能，以便管理冲突，改善沟通，处理 谈判，并成为高性能的研究员。 4)向参与者介绍与癌症相关的数据库，如SEER、SEER-Medicare和“大数据” 例如犹他州人口数据库(UPDB)、所有付款人索赔数据库(APCD)和癌症 流行病学联合会的数据，以调查与癌症相关的健康差异。随着越来越多的州采用APCDS 大型数据库之间的链接正在增加，此培训将为参与者提供具有竞争力的 在他们的研究项目和拨款建议的开发方面具有优势。 5)与协调中心合作评估犹他州UE5计划。 机会和潜在影响：犹他州UE5计划解决了癌症的一个关键缺口 通过为致力于追求独立学术生涯的初级教员配备 先进的职业发展经验。成功完成犹他州UE5计划的目标 将导致额外注入200名训练有素的多元化教职员工，从而扩大能力 以减轻美国各地社区中与癌症相关的健康差距的负担。

ABSTRACT The overarching goal of the Utah Advanced Course on Mentoring, Leadership, and Cancer-related Health Disparities is to provide innovative state-of-the-art, evidence-based career development experiences to current NCI grantees to enhance their skills in leadership, mentoring, and cancer disparities research for successful transition to independent academic careers. Our long-term goal is to enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nations’ biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs that will culminate in the reduction of the burden of cancer across various communities in the United States. Our team of investigators and faculty have a track record of providing high impact research education and training to early career investigators at both local and national scales. We bring expertise in mentoring and leadership training, community-engaged scholarship, cancer-related databases including those that are unique to Utah, and networking opportunities available in cancer consortia. Our specific aims are: 1) To work with the Coordinating Center for the recruitment of NCI grantees into the Utah UE5 Program. 2) To enhance the mentoring skills of program participants through interactive evidence-based educational experiences. We will use a combination of in-person and novel educational technologies to provide mentor training in areas such as building effective mentoring teams, becoming effective mentors for peers, providing culturally aware mentoring, and preparing competitive grant applications including a mock study section. 3) To strengthen the leadership capacity of program participants with an interactive and experiential program to improve their leadership skills in order to manage conflicts, improve communication, handle negotiations, and become high performance researchers. 4) To introduce participants to cancer-related databases such as SEER, SEER-Medicare, and “big data” such as the Utah Population Database (UPDB), the All Payer’s Claims Database (APCD) and Cancer Epidemiology Consortia data to investigate cancer-related health disparities. As more states adopt APCDs and linkage across large databases are increasing this training will provide the participants a competitive edge in the development of their research projects and grant proposals. 5) To work with the Coordinating Center for the evaluation of the Utah UE5 Program. Opportunity and Potential Impact: The Utah UE5 Program addresses a critical gap in the cancer academic workforce by equipping junior faculty committed to pursuing independent academic careers with advanced career development experiences. Successful completion of the goals of the Utah UE5 program will lead to the infusion of an additional cadre of 200 well-trained diverse faculty, thus expanding the capacity to reduce the burden of cancer-related health disparities in communities across the United States.