Summer Research Experiences in Cancer Science and Oncology

项目摘要/摘要 对于决定他或她未来职业或专业的学生来说，有指导的研究经验可以提供 对该领域专业人士生活的批判性见解。实习生培养了对 专业做法，掌握技能和方法，并在大多数情况下，进一步鼓励 继续在那个领域学习。癌症研究中的实习对于鼓励 更多的科学家和临床医生专注于癌症，以满足我们国家日益增长的需求 人口老龄化，癌症护理的复杂性随着存活率和癌症对医疗保健的影响而扩大 继续增加。拥有66年经验的罗斯威尔公园夏季研究经验 肿瘤学和癌症科学项目将继续为正在崛起的大学提供暑期实习机会 大四学生(10周)和二年级医学和内科助理学生(8周)。它的目标 是告知学生关于临床和研究职业的决定，激励他们追求癌症 研究，并给予他们基本的研究和沟通技能。每个实习生都有系统地 与医生或科学家匹配，在导师的诊所或实验室工作，探索 职业和工作环境，对正在进行的研究或临床操作做出贡献，并就 他们的成果通过口头和海报展示。这些实习发生在一个独特的环境中 美国国立卫生研究院指定的综合性癌症中心，临床和研究业务紧密相连 交织在翻译研究的结构中。实习生将专门探索 通过相关的支持性合作，在基础、人群、转化和临床试验研究方面取得进展 教学系列讲座的课程设置和同行交叉培训活动。专业发展 计划支持实习生探索癌症职业生涯的各个方面，包括参与的机会 在社区教育服务中--学习。我们继续与霍华德大学(A)建立独特的伙伴关系 领导历史上的黑人学院/大学)为大二和大三的荣誉学生提供指导 学生在他们的定向阅读课程中。罗斯威尔公园的教职员工、博士后实习生和研究生 学生与霍华德举行视频会议表彰学生每两周一次讨论初级科学 文学。这个实习前的远程指导计划允许霍华德的学生达到他们的 罗斯威尔公园暑期实习生，已经学习了导师研究领域的文献。 我们已经向护理本科生提供了实习机会，以培养他们的鉴赏力和 了解肿瘤学研究和临床试验管理，并满足发展的需要 精通研究和临床试验实施的肿瘤科护士能力。的成功之路 暑期研究体验计划将以实习生受到鼓励的程度来衡量 从事涉及生物医学研究的职业，尤其是在癌症领域。

Project Summary/Abstract For a student deciding on his or her future career or specialty, a mentored research experience provides critical insights into the lives of professionals in that field. The intern develops awareness of the professional practices, masters skills and methods, and, in the majority of cases, is further encouraged to continue study in that field. Internships in cancer research are increasingly vital to the goal of encouraging greater numbers of scientists and clinicians to focus on cancer to meet our growing need as our nation's population ages, complexities of cancer care expand with survivorship and cancer's impact on healthcare continues to increase. With sixty-six years of experience, the Roswell Park Summer Research Experience Programs in Oncology and the Cancer Science will continue offering summer internships to rising college seniors (10-weeks) and rising second-year medical and physician assistant students (8-weeks). Its goals are to inform students' decisions regarding clinical and research careers, motivate them to pursue cancer research, and give them essential research and communication skills. Each intern is systematically matched to a physician or scientist, works in the mentor's clinic or lab, explores the demands of the profession and work environment, contributes to the ongoing research or clinical operations, and reports on their results through oral and poster presentations. These internships occur in the unique environment of an NIH-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center where clinical and research operations are tightly interwoven within the fabric of translational research. Interns will specifically explore the continuum of progress across basic, population, translational, and clinical trial research through a relevant supporting co- curriculum of a didactic lecture series and peer-cross training activities. Professional development programming supports interns' exploration of facets of cancer careers including opportunities to participate in community education service-learning. We continue our unique partnership with Howard University (a leading Historically Black College/University) to provide mentoring to sophomore and junior honors students in their Directed Reading courses. Roswell Park faculty, post-doctoral trainees, and graduate students videoconference with their Howard honors students bi-weekly to discuss primary scientific literature. This pre-internship distance mentorship program allows Howard students to arrive at their Roswell Park summer internship having already studied the literature from their mentor's research area. We have expanded internship offerings to nursing undergraduates to develop an appreciation and understanding of oncology research and clinical trial management and meet the needs of developing a capacity of oncology nurses versed in research and clinical trial implementation. The success of the Summer Research Experience Programs will be measured by the degree to which interns are encouraged to pursue careers involving biomedical research, optimally in the cancer field.