Postdoctoral Training Program in Cancer Survivorship

描述（由申请人提供）：癌症幸存者博士后培训项目对癌症幸存者有独特的关注。癌症治疗的进步和人口老龄化导致癌症幸存者的数量不断增加，预计到2012年，这一数字将继续增加三分之一，达到1800万人。癌症幸存者处理许多问题，如症状管理，获得治疗，预防复发，以及癌症治疗的长期或晚期影响。需要进行研究，以更好地了解这些问题，并制定干预措施，以减少癌症发病率，提高癌症幸存者的生活质量。这些问题的复杂性涉及流行病学、社会和行为科学、临床肿瘤学、卫生服务研究、癌症生物学和遗传学的知识。癌症教育和职业发展培训计划（CECDP）是培养该领域研究人员的理想机制。这是维克森林大学健康科学癌症幸存者博士后培训项目的续签申请。这个为期两到四年的博士后培训项目面向社会/行为科学家、流行病学家和医生，旨在培养具有新的研究技能和跨学科培训的研究人员，重点是癌症幸存者研究的设计和实施。该项目是多学科合作的，涉及教师和培训方法、学员的研究项目以及学员本身的背景。培训项目为每位受训者提供专门的癌症幸存者课程和量身定制的项目，在至少两名具有大型同行评审资助研究基地的合格导师的指导下，将正式的课程学习和幸存者研究的实践经验结合起来。量身定制的课程还可以获得临床和转化科学的硕士学位。所有受训者都接受有关癌症幸存者的正式培训，NIH拨款准备，负责任的研究行为培训，并参加跨学科研讨会和兴趣小组。该计划提供研究方面的实践培训，包括在跨学科团队中工作，选择研究设计，研究伦理，研究中使用人类受试者的指导方针，拨款准备，患者招募，收集和分析数据，在科学会议上发表演讲，以及撰写发表手稿。学员有机会与我们的CCOP研究基地、Maya Angelou健康公平中心、多地点研究和合作小组以及中西医结合中心合作。研究人群包括缺医少药人群、老年人和农村人口。学员将有机会体验基础、临床和人口研究环境，并利用维克森林大学综合癌症中心和维克森林大学健康科学中心的跨学科活动和充分资源。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Postdoctoral Training Program in Cancer Survivorship has a unique focus on cancer survivorship. Advances in cancer treatments and our aging population have led to an increasing number of cancer survivors and this number is expected to continue to increase by a third to 18 million people by 2012. Cancer survivors deal with many issues such as symptom management, access to treatment, preventing recurrence, and long- term or late effects of cancer treatments. Research is needed to better understand these issues and to develop interventions to reduce morbidity from cancer and improve quality of life for cancer survivors. The complexity of these issues involves knowledge of epidemiology, social and behavioral sciences, clinical oncology, health services research, cancer biology and genetics. The Cancer Education and Career Development Training Program (CECDP) is an ideal mechanism for training researchers in this field. This is a renewal application to continue the successful Postdoctoral Training Program in Cancer Survivorship at Wake Forest University Health Sciences. This two to four year postdoctoral training program for social/behavioral scientists, epidemiologists, and physicians aims to develop investigators with new research skills and interdisciplinary training focused on the design and implementation of cancer survivorship research. The program is multidisciplinary and collaborative with respect to its faculty and training approach, the research projects of trainees, and the backgrounds of the trainees themselves. The training program provides a specialized curriculum in cancer survivorship and a tailored program for each trainee that combines formal course work and hands-on experience in survivorship research under the guidance of at least two well- qualified mentors with a large, peer-reviewed funded research base. The tailored program can also lead to an M.S. degree in Clinical and Translational Science. All trainees receive formal training in cancer survivorship, NIH grant preparation, training in the responsible conduct of research, and participate in interdisciplinary seminars and interest groups. The program provides practical training in research including working in an interdisciplinary team, selecting a research design, ethics in research, guidelines for the use of human subjects in research, grant preparation, patient recruitment, collecting and analyzing data, presentations at scientific meetings, and writing manuscripts for publication. Trainees have opportunities to collaborate with our CCOP Research base, the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity, multi-site studies and cooperative groups, and the Center for Integrative Medicine. Study populations include the underserved, elderly, and rural populations. Trainees will have the opportunity to experience basic, clinical and population research environments, as well as take advantage of the interdisciplinary activities and full resources of the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University and Wake Forest University Health Sciences.