Training Program in Cancer-Related Population Sciences

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的9年里，哥伦比亚大学梅尔曼公共卫生学院为人口科学领域的癌症研究人员提供了一个由NCI资助的R25 T培训项目。像我们长期的T32计划一样，R25计划是教师的合作，主要是流行病学，生物统计学和环境健康科学，他们资助了许多与癌症相关的研究项目，学员可以在这些项目上工作。然而，R25计划强调跨学科培训。除了参加公共卫生学院的必修和推荐课程外，R25学员还通过独特的个性化模块进行轮换，提供研究设计和数据收集方面的实践经验;行为研究;实验室研究;卫生服务和结果;临床肿瘤学和数据分析。学员还需要参加癌症生物学，研究伦理和研究资金的课程;进行深入的多学科项目，重点是他们的专业;并在我们每周的多学科会议上每年做两次演讲。受训者有机会参加癌症会议和会议在他们的纪律，并鼓励（但不要求）在这些会议上发言。博士后学员需要准备和提交研究资助计划，供学院进行模拟同行评审。从我们的R25计划毕业的10名博士后学员中，有8人现在担任教职，其中6人获得了NIH K奖。 在这次竞争性的更新中，我们建议加强我们在健康成果/服务研究，卫生经济学和癌症基础生物学方面的培训;实施更详细的评估计划;增加我们的咨询委员会，监督学员的招聘，表现和评估;并继续与我们的外部咨询委员会进行咨询，该委员会由3名杰出的科学家/教育家组成。R25每年为5名（1名博士前和4名博士后）受训人员提供支助。鉴于我们在博士后培训方面取得的成功，我们现在建议只向博士学位持有人提供R25培训名额。为了保持计划的连续性和质量，我们还指定了PI的未来继任者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For the past 9 years, the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University has had an NCI-funded R25T Training Program for cancer investigators in the Population Sciences. Like our longstanding T32 program, the R25 program is a collaboration of faculty, predominantly in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health Sciences, who have numerous funded cancer-related research projects on which trainees can work. However, the R25 program emphasizes cross-disciplinary training. In addition to taking required and recommended courses in the School of Public Health, R25 trainees rotate through unique individualized modules providing hands-on experience in study design and data collection; behavioral research; laboratory research; health services and outcomes; clinical oncology, and data analysis. Trainees are also required to take courses in cancer biology, research ethics, and research funding; to undertake an in-depth multidisciplinary project with a focus in their specialty; and to make two presentations per year at our weekly multidisciplinary conference. Trainees have the opportunity to attend cancer meetings and meetings in their discipline and are encouraged (but not required) to make presentations at those meetings. Postdoctoral trainees are required to prepare and submit research grant proposals for mock peer review by the faculty. Of the 10 postdoctoral trainees who have graduated from our R25 program, 8 now hold faculty appointments, and 6 of the 8 have NIH K awards. In this competing renewal, we propose to enhance our training in health outcomes/services research, health economics, and the basic biology of cancer; to implement a more detailed evaluation plan; to add to our Advisory Committee, which oversees recruitment, performance and evaluation of the trainees; and to continue consulting with our external advisory committee of 3 outstanding scientist/educators. The R25 has provided support for 5 (1 pre- and 4 postdoctoral) trainees annually. Given our success in postdoctoral training, we now propose to offer R25 traineeships only to holders of a doctoral degree. To maintain the continuity and quality of the program, we have also designated a future successor for the PI.