Increasing the Pipeline: Latino Training Program for Cancer Control Research

描述（由申请人提供）：该计划的目标是通过建立拉丁裔癌症控制研究培训计划（LTPCCR）来增加拉丁裔在癌症控制研究中的比例，特别是在美国西南部，该计划将激励拉丁裔硕士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是在一个以证据为基础的培训模式为基础的，名为“癌症控制研究中的少数民族培训计划”（MTPCCR），该模式针对加州的一系列种族群体。具体来说，LTPCCR每年将招收20名拉丁裔硕士研究生或受过硕士培训的卫生专业人员。LTPCCR的一个创新之处在于，它只针对一个少数民族——来自美国西南部和俄克拉荷马州的拉美裔人。它将提供从硕士水平到博士水平的四种干预措施，包括：a)为所有参与者提供暑期学院，b) 9个每年带薪的癌症差异研究暑期实习（2-5年级），c) 3个年度博士申请支持奖和d)博士生研修。最后，它将证明博士课程的入学率超过了以前MTPCCR实现的拉丁裔入学率。我们预计每年拉丁裔入学人数至少为15%（比MTPCCR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，大多数博士生表示德克萨斯项目对这些学术目标产生了强烈的积极影响。其他成功的基准包括自我效能感的显著提高，以及参加暑期学院后申请博士课程的意愿的显著提高；至少有65%的参与者认为每节课都很好。

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.