Behavioral Oncology Education & Career Development

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案是响应PAR #06-511（NCI癌症教育和职业发展计划）的第二次竞争性续期申请。根据该计划的公告，我们正在寻求持续的资金，为2003年9月首次资助的一个依赖药物的项目（R25 CA 090314），该项目在高度跨学科和协作的癌症研究环境中培养博士后候选人。我们的计划侧重于在行为肿瘤学研究中培训癌症科学家，这一领域显然需要在协作和跨学科环境中进行培训。该计划是建立在行为科学，人口科学，流行病学，生物统计学，营养，护理和医学研究人员之间的广泛和富有成效的合作。该计划的一个关键特征是开发了行为肿瘤学的专业课程，该课程在我们的机构中是不可用的，并且以一种重要的方式与该计划的培训目标和目的相联系。这一专门课程包括一个一年级和二年级学员都需要的核心课程和一个选修课程，旨在提供个性化的培训，由每个学员与其培训委员会一起选择。在过去的五年里，该计划成功地吸引了一批有才华的多元化申请人，从这个人才库中招募了最好的申请人，并为招募的学员提供了成为行为肿瘤学领域成功的独立研究者所需的技能和经验。资金将使我们能够建立在我们之前的成功，并准备更多的学员职业生涯作为独立的调查人员在行为肿瘤学。

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.