Behavioral Oncology Education & Career Development

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案是针对PAR#06-511(NCI癌症教育和职业发展计划)提出的第二次竞争性续签申请。根据计划公告，我们正在为2003年9月首次资助的依赖课程的项目(R25CA090314)继续寻求资金，该项目在高度跨学科和协作的癌症研究环境中培训博士后候选人。我们的计划重点是在行为肿瘤学研究方面培训癌症科学家，这一领域显然需要在协作和跨学科环境中进行培训。该计划建立在行为科学、人口科学、流行病学、生物统计学、营养学、护理和医学研究人员之间广泛而富有成效的合作基础上。这一计划的一个关键特点是开发了行为肿瘤学的专门课程，这是我们机构没有的，并以一种必要的方式与该计划的培训目标和目的联系在一起。这一专业课程包括一年级和二年级学员所需的核心课程，以及由每个学员与其培训委员会共同选择的、旨在提供个性化培训的选修课程。在过去的五年里，该计划成功地吸引了一批才华横溢的多样化申请者，从这个申请者库中招募了最好的申请者，并为被招募的学员提供了成为行为肿瘤学领域成功的独立调查人员所需的技能和经验。资金将使我们能够在先前成功的基础上，为行为肿瘤学的独立研究人员的职业生涯准备更多的受训人员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is the second competitive renewal application in response to PAR #06-511 (NCI Cancer Education and Career Development Program). In accordance with the program announcement, we are seeking continued funding for a curriculum-dependent program first funded in September 2003 (R25CA090314) that trains postdoctoral candidates in cancer research settings that are highly interdisciplinary and collaborative. Our program focuses on training cancer scientists in behavioral oncology research, a field that clearly requires training in collaborative and interdisciplinary settings. The program is built upon extensive and productive collaborations among researchers in behavioral science, population science, epidemiology, biostatistics, nutrition, nursing, and medicine. A key feature of this program has been the development of a specialized curriculum in behavioral oncology that was not otherwise available at our institution and is linked in an essential manner to the training goals and objectives of the program. This specialized curriculum consists of a core curriculum that is required for both first-year and second-year trainees and an elective curriculum, designed to provide individualized training, that is selected by each trainee in conjunction with his/her training committee. Over the past five years, the program has been successful in attracting a talented and diverse pool of applicants, recruiting the best applicants from this pool, and providing the trainees recruited with the skills and experiences necessary for becoming successful independent investigators in the field of behavioral oncology. Funding will allow us to build upon our prior success and prepare additional trainees for careers as independent investigators in behavioral oncology.