Training in Research for Behavioral Oncology and Cancer Control Program

描述(由申请者提供)：第一次竞争更新的首要目标是继续成功的多学科行为肿瘤学研究培训计划。该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。博士后研究员将在全国范围内招募，与IUPUI的初级导师一起培训。该计划将足够灵活，以满足来自不同学术领域的个人的教育需求，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，并获得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、泌尿外科、护理、社会工作、信息学和心理学。博士前候选人将来自印第安纳大学/普渡大学(IUPUI)的院系，并将被一个博士项目录取，希望专注于行为肿瘤学的研究。R25机制使我们能够扩展我们的计划，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、IUPUI的核心计划行为肿瘤学研究和医疗中心园区的独特优势的基础上。这一竞争性延续的第一年将包括招聘2名博士后研究员和2名博士后研究员。个性化的培训计划将根据每个学生的学术背景量身定做，但将包括四门肿瘤学必修课。学生将在他们感兴趣的主要项目中选择一名导师，并在不同的学校/系中选择一名二级导师。过程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。R25T培训支持将继续履行培训多学科研究人员的重要使命，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.