Multidisciplinary Educational Approach to Reducing Cancer Disparities

项目摘要/摘要 增加癌症研究人员和临床医生的多样性是发现创新癌症的关键策略 控制解决方案和减少癌症差距。这位青年享受科学研究教育(是) 该计划将增加加州大学圣地亚哥分校(UCSD)毕业生的多样性 科学方面的研究生/专业培训。此YES计划基于变革性学习 理论和加州大学圣迭戈分校实施UCSD成功治愈计划的16年经验。这是肯定的 该计划将增加来自不同科学学科的女性和代表性不足的学生的数量 他们为研究生入学做好了准备，重点是解决癌症和癌症差距问题。 具体地说，是的，学生参加课堂和实验室学习活动，提高他们的 了解癌症以及国家和世界的癌症差异。因此，癌症的差异以及如何 他们被识别和解决成为这个是计划的各种不同的相互联系的共同主题 学习活动。学生们从他们的角度来处理与癌症差异有关的问题 个人实验室培训、课程和讲习班、自己的文化背景、社区外展 他们部署的活动，以及他们选择的学术和职业道路。圣地亚哥的三个NCI指定 癌症中心(UCSD、索尔克生物研究所和Sanford Burnham Prebys医学发现 研究所)邀请YES学生在基础癌症、行为癌症、临床癌症和转化性癌症方面工作和学习 他们顶尖的癌症研究人员的研究实验室。在他们的实验室和教室里，YES学生获得了坚实的 了解癌症以及与癌症的发展和恶化有关的许多生物行为问题 癌症差异和可能的解决方案。通过这些信息和他们的文献回顾，学生们学到了 如何在多学科团队中工作，因为他们制定了帮助降低社区癌症的计划 发病率和死亡率。通过这些活动，学生们了解到，在他们的一生中，他们可以玩 在减少癌症差异方面的作用。帮助YES学生充分发挥他们的学业、个人和 除了职业潜力，他们还可以获得补充学习经验，例如公开演讲、目标 设置和时间管理，写作，进行文献检索和综合的技能和经验 与专业和非专业观众介绍和讨论他们的研究工作。学生们还准备和 提交摘要，在研究研讨会和国家科学会议上展示他们的研究成果。 对YES项目学生的指导贯穿于他们在加州大学圣迭戈分校的整个时间，直到研究生院。 因此，这个YES计划的前提是，这个学习机会将给学生带来实践 研究经验和技能，将帮助他们确保进入研究生水平的STEM课程，并 从事癌症控制研究，始终专注于减少癌症差异。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Increasing the diversity of cancer researchers and clinicians is a key strategy for finding innovative cancer control solutions and reducing cancer disparities. This Youth Enjoy Science Research Education (YES) Program will increase the diversity of University of California San Diego (UCSD) graduates who are pursuing graduate/professional training in the sciences. This YES Program is grounded on the Transformative Learning Theory and UCSD's 16 years of experience conducting UCSD's successful CURE Program. This YES Program will increase the number of women and underrepresented students from diverse scientific disciplines who are prepared for graduate school admission, with a focus on addressing cancer and cancer disparities. Specifically, YES students participate in classroom and laboratory learning activities that raise their understanding of cancer and the nation's and the world's cancer disparities. Thus, cancer disparities and how they are identified and resolved become the common theme that interconnects this YES Program's various learning activities. Students approach the issues related to cancer disparities, from the perspective of their individual laboratory training, classes and workshops, their own cultural backgrounds, community outreach events they deploy, and their chosen academic and professional pathways. San Diego's three NCI-designated cancer centers (UCSD, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute) invite the YES students to work and learn in the basic, behavioral, clinical and translational cancer research labs of their top cancer researchers. In their labs and classrooms, the YES students gain a solid understanding of cancer and the many bio-behavioral issues related to the development and exacerbation of cancer disparities and the possible resolutions. With this information and their literature review, students learn how to work on multidisciplinary teams as they develop programs to help reduce their community's cancer morbidity and mortality rates. Through these activities, students learn that, throughout their lives, they can play a role in reducing cancer disparities. To help YES students' reach their full academic, personal, and professional potential, they are also offered supplementary learning experiences, e.g., public speaking, goal setting and time management, writing, conducting literature search and synthesis skills, and experiences presenting and discussing their research work with professional and lay audiences. Students also prepare and submit abstracts to present their research findings at research symposia and national scientific meetings. Mentoring of the YES Program students, continues throughout their time at UCSD and on to graduate school. Thus, the premise of this YES program is that this learning opportunity will give the students hands-on research experiences and skills that will help them to secure admission to graduate level STEM programs and careers in cancer control research, always with a focus on reducing cancer disparities.