Training in Research for Behavioral Oncology and Cancer Control Program

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案的总体目标是培养多学科行为肿瘤学研究的博士前学生和博士后研究员，以帮助培养能够整合基础，临床和行为科学的新一代研究人员。该培训计划将提供必要的教学和研究经验，使学员能够在行为肿瘤学/癌症控制研究中建立成功的研究生职业生涯。博士前候选人将来自印第安纳州大学/普渡大学（IUPUI）的部门/学校，并将被录取到博士课程，希望将他们的研究集中在行为肿瘤学。这些学校/部门包括应用健康科学，公共卫生，医学（血液学/肿瘤学和临床药理学部门），医学和分子遗传学，泌尿学，护理，社会工作，信息学和心理学。博士后研究员将在全国范围内招募，与IUPUI的主要导师一起培训。该计划将具有足够的灵活性，以满足来自不同学术学科的个人的教育需求，但足够正式，以确保参与者在完成学业时获得高水平的内容知识并获得密集的多学科研究经验。该计划建立在一个小型现有的培训计划的独特优势，安置在护理学院。这种R25机制将使我们能够扩展我们的计划，包括真正的跨学科努力，并建立在我们的NCI指定的临床癌症中心，我们在IUPUI的核心计划行为肿瘤学研究和医疗中心校园的独特优势的重要资源。该计划的第一年将包括专业课程的最终开发以及2名博士前研究员和1名博士后研究员进入该计划。个性化的培训计划将根据每个研究员的学术背景量身定制，但将包括四门肿瘤学必修课程。研究员将在他们感兴趣的主要项目中选择一名导师，并在不同的学校/系中选择一名二级导师。计划进行过程评价和成果评价。一个由高级研究人员组成的咨询委员会将指导项目的开发和学生的进步。这项R25培训支持将填补培训多学科研究人员的重要使命，这些研究人员可以弥合基础，临床和行为研究之间的现有差距。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of this proposal is to train pre-doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows in multi- disciplinary behavioral oncology research to help develop a new generation of researchers who can integrate basic, clinical and behavioral sciences. The training program will provide the didactic and research experiences necessary to enable trainees to establish successful post-graduate careers in behavioral oncology/cancer control research. Pre-doctoral candidates will come from departments/schools at Indiana University/Purdue University (IUPUI) and will have been admitted to a PhD program with a desire to focus their research in behavioral oncology. These schools/departments include Applied Health Science, Public Health, Medicine (Divisions of Hematology/Oncology and Clinical Pharmacology), Medical and Molecular Genetics, Urology, Nursing, Social Work, Informatics, and Psychology. Post-doctoral fellows will be recruited nationally to train with primary mentors at IUPUI. The program will be flexible enough to address the educational needs of individuals from different academic home disciplines, but formalized enough to ensure that participants achieve high levels of content knowledge and acquire intensive, multi-disciplinary research experience by the time they complete their studies. The program builds on the unique strengths of a small existing training program housed within the School of Nursing. This R25 mechanism will allow us to expand our program to include a true trans-disciplinary effort and builds upon the significant resources of our NCI-designated Clinical Cancer Center, our core programs behavioral oncology research at IUPUI and the unique strengths of the medical center campus. The first year of the program will include final development of the specialized curriculum as well as enrollment of 2 pre-doctoral fellows and 1 post-doctoral fellow into the program. Individualized training plans will be tailored to the academic background of each fellow but will include four required courses in oncology. Fellows will select a mentor in their primary program of interest and a secondary mentor in a different school/department. Both process and outcome evaluations are planned. An Advisory Committee of senior researchers will guide the program development and student progress. This R25 training support will fill the important mission of training multidisciplinary researchers who can bridge the existing gap between basic, clinical and behavioral research.