Hampton University-UPCI Education/Training Program

该计划的摘要/目标： 这个项目的主要目标是启动一个新的课程，并建立胡的科学技能 本科生专注于癌症发病率中的环境和流行病学因素， 进展、预防和治疗。一个新的分子流行病学培训课程将 补充工作坊课程和说教课程。此计划建立并扩展自 现有的HU-UPCI伙伴关系。通过这一伙伴关系开展的以往工作取得成功的关键 在本科教学中采用合作学习方式进行创新吗？ 癌症生物学。拟议的HU-UPCI教育计划将开发一个课程和一个研讨会，这两个课程都是新的 针对从大二开始的学生的多学科工具，具体目的是教授如何 将基础科学成果转化为人体研究，以及分子流行病学研究的结果 可以回答与健康差距有关的公共卫生问题。研讨会的重点是“ 调查科学，“将是关于学生科学语言技能的发展，假设的框架， 对同行评议的期刊文章进行批判性阅读，并通过公开演示 科学信息。这门名为《癌症研究转化学课程》的课程将由 HU-UPCI合作学院和癌症文献的环境流行病学和批判性综述 基因与环境的相互作用。这些课程将与现有的癌症课程形成补充。一个 暑期研究实习将提供给参加课程的学生，以测试特定的 基于现有数据库的假设，这些数据库包含来自人类研究的流行病学和生物学数据。 该计划还将制定评估措施，将癌症知识和癌症信念 对参加癌症系列课程前后学生的职业态度进行比较 参加暑期科研实习。最后，为了推进这一倡议的学术议程， 结果将在教育文献中公布，并计划在年底提供R25E赠款 目前的项目是支持实施额外的教育创新。完成这些工作 Goals将带领我们更接近于开发一个增加少数族裔癌症数量的国家模型 研究人员，这反过来将大大有助于减少少数民族的癌症健康差距 美国。

Abstract/Objective of the program: The primary goal of this project is to initiate a new curriculum and to build the scientific skills of HU undergraduate students with a focus on environmental and epidemiologic factors in cancer incidence, progression, prevention and treatment. A novel training curriculum in molecular epidemiology will complement a workshop course and a didactic course. This initiative builds and branches out from an existing HU-UPCI Partnership. The key to the success of previous work conducted through this partnership was innovation in teaching of undergraduate courses by using a cooperative learning approach to learn cancer biology. The proposed HU-UPCI Education Program will develop a course and a workshop, both new multidisciplinary tools directed at students starting at the sophomore level, with the specific aim to teach how to translate basic science results into human studies, and how results from molecular epidemiologic studies can answer public health issues related to health disparities. The focus of the workshop, "Skills for Investigative Science," will be on students' development of scientific language skills, framing of hypotheses, critical reading of peer-reviewed journal articles, and communication skills through the public presentation of scientific information. The course, "Curriculum for Translational Cancer Research," will feature lectures by HU-UPCI collaborating faculty and critical review of cancer literature on environmental epidemiology and gene-environment interaction. These courses will be complementary with the established cancer courses. A summer research internship will be available for students who attended the courses, to test specific hypotheses on existing data bases containing both epidemiological and biological data from human studies. The program will also develop evaluative measures that will compare cancer knowledge and beliefs of students prior to and after taking the series of cancer classes and to compare career attitudes of students participating in the summer research internship. Lastly, to advance the academic agenda of this initiative, results will be published in the educational literature and R25E grants will be planned at the end of the current project to support the implementation of additional educational innovations. Completion of these goals will lead us closer to developing a national model for growing the number of minority cancer researchers, which in turn will greatly contribute to reducing cancer health disparities in minorities in America.