Training in Research for Behavioral Oncology and Cancer Control Program

描述（由申请人提供）：第一次竞争性更新的总体目标是继续成功的多学科行为肿瘤学研究培训计划。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/癌症控制研究领域建立成功的研究生职业生涯。将在全国范围内招募博士后，与IUPUI的主要导师一起培训。该计划将足够灵活，以满足来自不同学科的个人的教育需求，但也足够正式，以确保参与者在完成学业时获得高水平的内容知识和密集的多学科研究经验。这些学院/系包括应用健康科学、公共卫生、医学（血液学/肿瘤学和临床药理学）、医学和分子遗传学、泌尿学、护理学、社会工作、信息学和心理学。博士预科候选人将来自印第安纳大学/普渡大学（IUPUI）的院系/学院，并将被博士课程录取，希望将他们的研究重点放在行为肿瘤学上。R25机制使我们能够扩展我们的项目，包括真正的跨学科努力，并建立在我们nci指定的临床癌症中心的重要资源，我们在IUPUI的核心项目行为肿瘤学研究以及医疗中心校园的独特优势之上。该项目第一年将招收2名博士预科生和2名博士后。个性化培训计划将根据每个学生的学术背景量身定制，但将包括四门肿瘤学必修课程。学生将在他们感兴趣的主要项目中选择一位导师，在不同的学校/部门中选择一位二级导师。过程评价和结果评价都是有计划的。一个由资深研究人员组成的顾问委员会将指导项目的发展和学生的进步。这种R25T培训支持将继续填补培训多学科研究人员的重要任务，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 first competitive renewal continue the successful training program in multi-disciplinary behavioral oncology research. 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. 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. 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. 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. The R25 mechanism allows 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 this compteing continuation will include recruitment of 2 predoctoral and 2 pos-doctoral fellows. Individualized training plans will be tailored to the academic background of each student but will include four required courses in oncology. Students 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 Board of senior researchers will guide the program development and student progress. This R25T training support will continue to fill the important mission of training multidisciplinary researchers who can bridge the existing gap between basic, clinical and behavioral research. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The purpose of the Training in Research for Behavioral Oncology and Cancer Control (TRBOCC) program is to train pre and post doctoral fellows in a multidisciplinary training program that will provide the didactic and research experiences necessary to train applicants for multidisciplinary careers in behavioral oncology. The program will be flexible enough to address the educational needs of individuals from different academic home disciplines, but formal enough to ensure that trainees achieve high levels of content knowledge and research skills specific to a research focus in behavioral oncology.