Increasing the Pipeline: Latino Training Program for Cancer Control Research

描述（由申请人提供）：该计划的目标是增加拉丁美洲人在癌症控制研究中的比例，特别是在美国西南部，通过建立一个拉丁美洲培训计划癌症控制研究（LTPCCR），这将激励拉丁美洲硕士水平的学生和卫生专业人员完成博士课程和职业生涯的癌症控制研究人员。LTPCCR是仿照以证据为基础的培训模式，名为少数民族培训计划在癌症控制研究（MTPCCR），针对的是一系列的种族群体在加州。具体而言，LTPCCR将每年招募20名拉丁美洲硕士水平的学生或硕士培训的卫生专业人员。LTPCCR的一个创新是，它针对的是一个单一的少数民族-拉丁美洲人/西班牙裔谁将来自美国西南部和俄克拉荷马州。它将提供从硕士到博士培训的四项干预措施，包括：a）所有参与者的暑期研究所，B）癌症差异研究（Y2-5）的9个年度带薪暑期实习，c）3个年度博士申请支持奖和d）博士生务虚会。最后，它将证明博士课程的入学率超过了以前的MTPCCR实现的拉丁裔入学率。我们预计每年至少有15%的拉丁美洲人入学率（比MTPCCR增加33%）。此外，我们预计至少有50%的博士生报告癌症控制作为他们的研究重点，大多数博士生表示，得克萨斯州的计划对这些学术目标产生了强烈的积极影响。其他成功的基准包括自我效能的显着增加，以及参与者在参加暑期研究所后申请博士课程的意图;以及至少65%的参与者将每节课评为优秀。 公共卫生相关性：尽管私人和政府支持鼓励拉丁美洲人通过管道从高中到大学进行基础科学和医学研究的计划，但社会和行为科学的投资很少，将癌症控制研究人员派往社区进行流行病学，沟通和行为研究。该计划的目标是通过增加拉丁美洲人在癌症控制研究中的比例来解决这些差异，特别是在美国西南部。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this program is to increase the proportion of Latinos in cancer control research, particularly in the Southwestern U.S., by establishing a Latino Training Program for Cancer Control Research (LTPCCR) that will motivate Latino master's-level students and health professionals to complete doctoral programs and careers as cancer control researchers. The LTPCCR is modeled after an evidence-based training model entitled, Minority Training Program in Cancer Control Research (MTPCCR) that targeted a spectrum of ethnic groups in California. Specifically, the LTPCCR will recruit an annual cohort of 20 Latino master's-level students or master's-trained health professionals. An innovation of the LTPCCR is that it targets a single ethnic minority - Latinos/Hispanics who will come from the Southwestern U.S. and Oklahoma. It will provide four interventions along the pipeline from masters-level to doctoral-level training, including: a) a Summer Institute for all participants, b) 9 annual paid summer internships in cancer disparities research (Y2-5), c) 3 annual Doctoral Application Support Awards and d) a Doctoral Student Retreat. Lastly, it will demonstrate an enrollment rate in doctoral programs that exceeds Latino enrollment achieved by the previous MTPCCR. We anticipate a minimum annual Latino enrollment of at least 15% (a 33% increase over that achieved by the MTPCCR). Additional we expect at least 50% of doctoral students reporting cancer control as their research focus and the majority of doctoral students indicating that the Texas program had a strong positive influence on these academic goals. Other benchmarks for success include a significant increase in self-efficacy and in participants' intention to apply to a doctoral program after attending the Summer Institute; and a minimum of 65% of participants rating each session as excellent. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Despite private and governmental support for programs that encourage Latinos to move through the pipeline from high school to college to research in basic sciences and medicine, there has been little investment in the social and behavioral sciences that send cancer control researchers out into communities to conduct epidemiologic, communication, and behavioral research. The goal of this program is to address these disparities by increasing the proportion of Latinos in cancer control research, particularly in the Southwestern U.S.