Increasing the Pipeline: Latino Training Program for Cancer Control Research

描述(由申请者提供)：该项目的目标是通过建立拉美裔癌症控制研究培训计划(LTPCCR)来提高拉美裔在癌症控制研究中的比例，特别是在美国西南部，该计划将激励拉美裔硕士水平的学生和卫生专业人员完成博士课程并成为癌症控制研究人员。LTPCCR是以循证培训模式为蓝本的，名为癌症控制研究中的少数群体培训计划(MTPCCR)，目标是加利福尼亚州的一系列种族。具体地说，LTPCCR将每年招聘20名拉丁裔硕士水平的学生或经过硕士培训的卫生专业人员。LTPCCR的一项创新是，它针对的是一个单一的少数民族--来自美国西南部和俄克拉何马州的拉美裔/拉美裔美国人。它将在从硕士级到博士级的培训过程中提供四项干预措施，包括：a)为所有参与者提供一个暑期研究所，b)在癌症差异研究方面进行9个年度带薪暑期实习(Y2-5)，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之前MTPCCR实现的拉丁裔入学人数。我们预计每年至少有15%的拉美裔学生入学(比MTPCCR实现的目标增加33%)。此外，我们预计至少有50%的博士生将癌症控制作为他们的研究重点，大多数博士生表明德克萨斯州的项目对这些学术目标产生了强大的积极影响。其他成功的基准包括自我效能感和参与者在参加暑期学院后申请博士项目的意愿显著增加；至少65%的参与者将每个课程评为优秀。 与公共健康相关：尽管私人和政府支持鼓励拉美裔从高中到大学再到基础科学和医学研究的项目，但在社会和行为科学方面的投资很少，这些科学派遣癌症控制研究人员到社区进行流行病学、沟通和行为研究。该计划的目标是通过增加拉美裔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.