Training Program in Cancer-Related Population Sciences

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的4年里，哥伦比亚大学梅尔曼公共卫生学院为人口科学领域的癌症研究人员提供了一个由NCI资助的R25 T培训项目。像我们长期的T32计划，R25计划是在三个部门的教师合作：流行病学，生物统计学和环境健康科学。越来越多的癌症相关人口科学的研究人员不仅需要自己特定学科的专业知识，而且需要广泛的多学科视角，包括对分子遗传学，临床肿瘤学，毒理学，健康服务和健康结果研究以及行为科学的肤浅理解。R25每年提供6名学员（3名博士前和3名博士后），在癌症预防和控制方面进行跨学科教育，深入的研究经验，并获得人口科学方面的大型教师，以及许多资助的癌症研究项目。该计划的毕业生已经进入着名的学术和研究职位。 在这个竞争性的更新中，我们建议通过提供更多的临床癌症遗传学，卫生经济学和癌症基础生物学方面的培训来扩展我们的计划。除了公共卫生学院内的必修和推荐课程外，我们的课程还提供创新的专业课程，在第2年提供为期2个月的个性化模块，让学员在以下方面获得实践经验：临床环境中的数据收集和采访;行为研究;实验室研究;卫生服务和成果;临床肿瘤学和数据分析。每个学员都必须参加病理学，研究伦理学和研究资金课程;进行深入的多学科项目，重点是他/她的专业;并在多学科每周会议上做两次演讲。学员有机会参加癌症会议和会议在他们的纪律，并鼓励但不要求在这些会议上发言。博士后学员必须提交研究资助计划书，由学院进行模拟同行评审。对于这个专门的项目，我们建议将我们的培训生从6人减少到6人。（3个前，3个博士后）到5个（1个前，4个博士后）;增加一个方案协调员的日常业务;实施更详细的评估计划;并增加我们的咨询委员会，监督招聘，表现和评估的受训人员，一个外部咨询委员会的三名杰出的科学家/教育家。我们的R25培训计划利用赫伯特欧文综合癌症中心，纽约长老会医院，哈莱姆医院，华盛顿高地/哈莱姆社区和纽约市的丰富的研究环境。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For the past 4 years, the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University has had an NCI-funded R25T Training Program for cancer investigators in Population Sciences. Like our longstanding T32 program, the R25 program is a collaboration of faculty in three departments: Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health Sciences. Increasingly, investigators in cancer-related population sciences require not only expertise in their own specific disciplines but a broad-based multidisciplinary perspective, including a more than superficial understanding of molecular genetics, clinical oncology, toxicology, health services and health outcomes research, and behavioral sciences. The R25 provides 6 trainees (3 pre- and 3 postdoctoral) annually with cross-disciplinary education in cancer prevention and control, an in-depth research experience, and access to a large faculty in the population sciences with numerous funded research projects in cancer. Graduates of the program have gone on to prestigious academic and research positions. In this competing renewal, we propose to extend our program by providing more training in clinical cancer genetics, health economics, and the basic biology of cancer. In addition to required and recommended courses within the School of Public Health, our program offers an innovative specialized curriculum, with 2-month individualized modules in year 2 giving trainees hands-on experience in: data collection and interviewing in a clinical setting; behavioral research; laboratory research; health services and outcomes; clinical oncology, and data analysis. Each trainee is required to take courses in pathology, research ethics, and research funding; to undertake an in-depth multidisciplinary project with a focus in his/her specialty; and to make two presentations/year at a multidisciplinary weekly conference. Trainees have the opportunity to attend cancer meetings and meetings in their discipline and are encouraged but not required to make presentations at those meetings. Postdoctoral trainees are required to submit research grant proposals for mock peer review by the faculty. For this specialized program, we propose to reduce our trainees from 6 (3 pre-, 3 postdoctoral) to 5 (1 pre-, 4 postdoctoral); to add a Program Coordinator for day-to- day operations; to implement a more detailed evaluation plan; and to add to our Advisory Committee, which oversees recruitment, performance and evaluation of the trainees, an external advisory committee of three outstanding scientist/educators. Our R25 Training Program utilizes the rich research environment of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Harlem Hospital, the Washington Heights/Harlem communities, and New York City.