Research Education Core

摘要 我们研究教育计划的主要目标是提高少数民族研究人员的数量和质量 致力于对癌症研究产生影响。我们有一个先前建立的研究教育 支持梅哈里医学院(MMC)医学生夏季癌症研究的计划 Vanderbilt；田纳西州立大学(TSU)本科生暑期研究；并提供支持 为MMC和TSU的研究生准备的。事实证明，这些计划成功地将学生培养成 从事癌症研究的职业。在此应用程序中，我们的重点是让学生及早参与研究，以便 在癌症研究的研究生项目和职业生涯中增加招聘和留住。有了它， 记住，我们建议正式制定一个发现之路计划，以招募高三和高年级学生进入 癌症研究，并通过研究生/医学院继续这一经历，特别关注 代表不足的少数族裔(URM)。我们的伙伴关系特别适合针对非裔美国人或黑人， 本科生(TSU)和研究生(MMC和TSU)的西班牙裔或拉丁裔学生。高 学校的学生将从纳什维尔大都市的两所学术STEM磁铁学校招收 拥有主要URM学生人口概况的学区。为了实现我们的目标，我们建议 遵循目标。在目标1中，我们将实施一个路径计划，提供早期和持续的研究 利用我们的癌症研究机会为高中生和本科生提供的教育 合伙机构。这将通过：1)高中癌症研究经验(HSCRE)来实现 在暑假和学年都有奖学金机会和多层同行和教职员工 指导；2)暑期和学年的早期本科生癌症研究经历(EUCRE) 提供参与通过同行和教员指导支持的项目的机会；以及3)a) 本科生后期癌症研究经历(LURE)在暑期和学年进行 有指导的独立研究项目。在目标2中，我们建议招聘和支持硕士和博士 研究生从事癌症研究，以使癌症研究队伍多样化，并 发展癌症差异领域的研究兴趣。最后，在目标3中，我们提供研究教育。 让医学生有机会为临床人口学和转化性癌症研究做出贡献 重点放在癌症差异上。

Summary The main goal of our research education program is to increase the number and quality of minority researchers dedicated to making an impact on cancer research. We have a previously established research education program that supports summer cancer research for medical students at Meharry Medical College (MMC) and Vanderbilt; summer research for undergraduates at Tennessee State University (TSU); and provides support for graduate students at MMC and TSU. These programs have proven successful at progressing students into careers in cancer research. In this application our focus is to engage students early in a research path in order to augment recruitment and retention into graduate programs and careers in cancer research. With that in mind, we propose to formalize a Pathway to Discovery Program to recruit high school juniors and seniors into cancer research and continue this experience through graduate/medical school, with particular focus on underrepresented minorities (URM). Our Partnership is particularly suited to target African American or Black, Hispanic or Latino students at the undergraduate (TSU) and graduate student level (MMC and TSU). High school students will be recruited from two academic STEM magnet schools in the Nashville metropolitan school district with predominant URM student population profiles. In order to achieve our goal, we propose the following aims. In aim 1, we will implement a pathway program that provides early and continuous research education for high school and undergraduate students leveraging the cancer research opportunities at our Partnership Institutions. This will be accomplished with : 1) a high school cancer research experience (HSCRE) both in the summer and academic year with scholarship opportunities and multi-tier peer and faculty mentoring; 2) early undergraduate cancer research experience (EUCRE) in the summer and academic year providing the opportunity for engagement in projects supported through peer and faculty mentoring; and 3) a late undergraduate cancer research experience (LUCRE) in the summer and academic year to conduct mentored-independent research projects. In aim 2, we propose to recruit and support master and doctoral graduate students to engage in cancer research in order to diversify the cancer research workforce and develop research interests in the area of cancer disparities. Finally, in aim 3, we provide research educational opportunities to medical students to contribute to clinical population sciences and translational cancer research with focus on cancer disparities.