Postdoctoral Training in Cancer Control Research

描述(由申请者提供)：这个癌症控制研究的博士后培训计划有一个独特的重点是癌症的存活率。癌症治疗的进步和我们的人口老龄化导致了越来越多的癌症幸存者。癌症幸存者处理许多问题，如症状管理、获得治疗的机会、预防复发以及癌症治疗的长期或晚期影响。需要进行研究，以便更好地了解这些问题，并制定干预措施，以减少癌症发病率，提高癌症幸存者的生活质量。这些问题的复杂性涉及流行病学、社会和行为科学、临床肿瘤学、卫生服务研究、癌症生物学和遗传学的知识。癌症教育和职业发展培训计划是这种培训的理想机制。 癌症控制研究博士后培训计划是一项为期两到三年的博士后培训计划，面向医生、社会/行为科学家和流行病学家，旨在培养具有新研究技能的研究人员，专注于癌症生存研究的设计和实施。该计划将在师资和培训方法、受训者的研究项目以及受训者本身的背景方面进行多学科和协作。该计划每年将招收两名实习生，他们是维克森林大学医学院或其他地方不同系的研究员或初级教员，或者希望获得癌症生存培训的博士。该培训计划提供癌症生存方面的专门课程，并为每个受训人员提供一个量身定制的计划，在两名资质良好的导师的指导下，将正规的课程工作和生存研究的实践经验结合起来，并拥有一个大型的同行评议资助的研究基础。这个量身定制的项目还可以获得健康科学研究的硕士学位。所有受训人员将接受癌症生存、NIH拨款准备方面的正式培训，并参加跨学科研讨会和兴趣小组。该计划提供研究实践培训，包括在跨学科团队中工作，选择研究设计，研究中的伦理，在研究中使用人类受试者的指导方针，拨款准备，患者招募，收集和分析数据，在科学会议上发表报告，以及撰写手稿以供发表。学员将有机会与我们的CCOP研究基地、玛雅·安杰卢少数民族健康研究中心、多地点研究和合作小组以及整合医学计划合作。研究人群包括服务不足的人、老年人、美洲原住民和农村人口。学员将有机会体验基础、临床和人口研究环境，并利用维克森林大学综合癌症中心的跨学科活动和全部资源。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Postdoctoral Training Program in Cancer Control Research has a unique focus on cancer survivorship. Advances in cancer treatments and our aging population have led to an increasing number of cancer survivors. Cancer survivors deal with many issues such as symptom management, access to treatment, preventing recurrence, and long-term or late effects of cancer treatments. Research is needed to better understand these issues and to develop interventions to reduce morbidity from cancer and improve quality of life for cancer survivors. The complexity of these issues involves knowledge of epidemiology, social and behavioral sciences, clinical oncology, health services research, cancer biology and genetics. The Cancer Education and Career Development training Program is an ideal mechanism for this training. The Postdoctoral Training Program in Cancer Control Research is a two to three year postdoctoral training program for physicians, social/behavioral scientists, and epidemiologists aimed at developing investigators with new research skills focused on the design and implementation of cancer survivorship research. The program will be multidisciplinary and collaborative with respect to its faculty and training approach, the research projects of trainees, and the backgrounds of the trainees themselves. The program will enroll two trainees each year who are fellows or junior faculty based out of various departments at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine or elsewhere or PhDs who wish to obtain this training in cancer survivorship. The training program provides a specialized curriculum in cancer survivorship and a tailored program for each trainee that combines formal course work and hands-on experience in survivorship research under the guidance of two well-qualified mentors with a large, peer-reviewed funded research base. The tailored program can also lead to an M.S. degree in Health Sciences Research. All trainees will receive formal training in cancer survivorship, NIH grant preparation, and participate in interdisciplinary seminars and interest groups. The program provides practical training in research including working in an interdisciplinary team, selecting a research design, ethics in research, guidelines for the use of human subjects in research, grant preparation, patient recruitment, collecting and analyzing data, presentations at scientific meetings, and writing manuscripts for publication. Trainees will have opportunities to collaborate with our CCOP Research base, the Maya Angelou Center for Minority Health Research, multi-site studies and cooperative groups, and the Program in Integrative Medicine. Study populations include the underserved, elderly, Native Americans, and rural populations. Trainees will have the opportunity to experience basic, clinical and population research environments, as well as take advantage of the interdisciplinary activities and full resources of the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University.