The Cancer Research Scholars Program (CRSP): Exploring Research Across the Cancer Continuum and into Underserved Communities

摘要/摘要 癌症是美国的主要死因之一。无法及早获得癌症预防方面的进展 筛查和治疗，特别是在社会经济水平低、服务不足的社区，被认为是获得治疗的重大障碍。 提高癌症存活率。公共卫生专家表示，人们生活、学习、 工作、娱乐也是癌症健康不平等的重要原因，是影响健康的最重要因素之一。 在一生中。克服这一日益复杂的问题将需要一个更大、更多样化和更专注的 劳动力。目前以癌症为重点的卫生保健专业人员和研究人员了解和管理 这些健康决定因素的影响，并适当地接触和联系他们的目标社区和患者 人口数量严重不足，而且有可能进一步拉大差距。为了满足这一迫切需求，扩大我们的 未来有文化能力的、专注于癌症的劳动力，辛辛那提大学(UC)及其附属机构共同寻求 建立和支持癌症研究学者计划(CRSP)。我们的重点将是创造独特和鼓舞人心的 面向全国所有种族和背景的合格本科生的研究和教育经验 并实施一项大幅增加研究生入学人数的计划。对我们的成功很重要 将成为CRSP高度参与的癌症导师网络(CMN)。我们正在采用孤岛系统方法(即 这种方法跨越医疗保健专业，涵盖围绕CMN建立的所有癌症护理范围，包括 来自加州大学癌症中心的教师，居住在加州大学和辛辛那提儿童医院医疗中心。我们的 教师们专注于癌症的各个领域，包括癌症病因学、预防/筛查/健康促进、 临床癌症研究和生存。为了确保我们的学者项目的成功，我们将：(1)积极招聘20-22名优秀人才 夏季学者，包括至少8名代表不足的少数族裔，与已建立的 我们非常成功的夏季本科生研究奖学金(SURF)计划的基础设施；(2)提供培训 在研究的基本要素(例如，负责任地进行研究、研究设计、分析等)中， 跨连续统一体的癌症研究和对健康的社会决定因素及其对癌症的影响的理解 不平等；(3)提供在顶尖癌症实验室的研究经验，与学者的职业兴趣密切匹配； (4)积极地让他们融入支持和热情的环境中，在其中他们进行专业和社交互动 与其他学者、研究生、博士后研究员、初级和高级教职员工合作；(5)提供创新教育 加强学术和职业发展，以促进进入癌症研究生课程和癌症职业生涯 路径；(6)提供团队科学、文化能力、微攻击性和隐性偏见培训 CRSP/CMN社区；(7)为我们的学者提供社区参与、身临其境和关注癌症的现场体验 和CMN，以鼓励未来社区参与的研究、教育和推广；以及(8)确保长期投资 在每个奖学金获得者中，这一期限超过了最初提议的夏季资助期。我们预计我们的计划将，如果 几十年来热心和敬业的癌症研究人员为未来几代人提供了成功的回报。

Abstract / Summary Cancer is among the leading causes of death in the United States. Lack of access to advances in cancer prevention, early screening, and treatment, particularly in low socioeconomic, underserved communities, are cited as substantial barriers to improving cancer survivorship. Public health experts have indicated that the social environment in which people live, learn, work, and play also contributes to notable cancer health inequities and is among the most important determinants of health throughout life. Overcoming the growing complexity of this problem will require a much larger, diverse, and dedicated workforce. The current pipeline of cancer-focused health care professionals and researchers that understand and manage the impact of these determinants of health and appropriately engage and connect with their target communities and patient populations is dangerously inadequate and likely to widen the gap even further. To address this critical need to expand our future culturally competent, cancer-focused workforce, the University of Cincinnati (UC) and its affiliates collectively seek to establish and support a Cancer Research Scholars Program (CRSP). Our focus will be on creating unique and inspiring research and educational experiences to qualified undergraduate students of all races and backgrounds from across the nation and to implement a program that greatly increases the number of graduate program matriculants. Important to our success will be CRSP's highly-engaged Cancer Mentor Network (CMN). We are adopting a systems-over-silos approach (i.e., an approach that crosses health care professions and covers the entire spectrum of cancer care built around the CMN including faculty from across the UC Cancer Center and residing at both UC and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Our faculty are focused on topics across the cancer continuum including cancer etiology, prevention/screening/health promotion, clinical cancer research and survivorship. To ensure our Scholars' success, we will: (1) proactively recruit 20-22 outstanding summer scholars, including at least 8 underrepresented minorities, with an interest in cancer research with the established infrastructure of our highly successful Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program; (2) provide training in the essentials of research (e.g., responsible conduct of research, research design, analysis, etc.), the fundamentals of cancer research across the continuum and an understanding of social determinants of health and their impact on cancer inequities; (3) offer research experiences in top-notch cancer laboratories that closely match the Scholars' career interests; (4) actively engage them in a supportive and enthusiastic environment in which they interact professionally and socially with other Scholars, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior and senior faculty; (5) provide innovative education that strengthens academic and professional development to facilitate entry into cancer graduate programs and cancer career pathways; (6) deliver team science, cultural competency, micro-aggression and implicit bias training for the entire CRSP/CMN community; (7) offer community-engaged, immersive, and cancer-focused field experiences to our Scholars and CMN to encourage future community-engaged research, education and outreach; and (8) ensure long-term investment in each Scholar that extends beyond the initial proposed summer funding period. We expect that our program will, if successful, have a payoff of decades of enthusiastic and dedicated cancer researchers for generations to come.