Medical Students, Cancer Control and The Deaf Community

描述(申请人提供)：加州大学圣迭戈分校癌症中心的使命是降低癌症发病率和死亡率，特别关注医疗服务不足的人群。该中心的外展计划一直与聋人社区密切合作，聋人社区是一个服务严重不足的群体。该项目将确保一批精通美国手语(ASL)和聋人文化并对癌症预防、早期发现、及时干预和临床试验感兴趣的健康和科学专业人员。十名加州大学圣迭戈分校医科学生将选修ASL课程作为一年级和二年级的选修课。这门特别课程将教授ASL的基本能力和聋人文化意识，以及ASL的医学术语(特别关注与癌症相关的问题)。在第一和第二个项目之间的暑假期间，加拉德特大学将包括为期六周的ASL和聋人文化沉浸计划，即学生医学院第一到第二年之间的暑假。在第七周和第八周，学生们将在圣地亚哥的聋人社区服务机构做两周的全职志愿者。医学生将为本科生建立一个健康前专业ASL俱乐部，以：鼓励对ASL感兴趣的人考虑从事健康和科学专业的职业：让本科生对健康前专业的学生有兴趣参加ASL课程；为学生创造各种与聋人社区互动的机会，并教授ASL公共常用医学术语的词汇。他们将与圣地亚哥聋人社区服务公司合作，为聋人社区创建一个由学生主导的为期一年的健康研讨会系列。健康前专业俱乐部的成员将帮助医学生协调聋人社区健康教育计划。在医学院的第四年，学生们将在一个让他们有机会与聋人社区互动的领域选择一门选修课。这可能是在失聪儿童夏令营实习的医学生，也可能是在加拉德特大学心理健康中心的学生健康中心实习。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The UCSD Cancer Center's mission is to reduce the cancer morbidity and mortality with a special focus on the medically underserved. The center's outreach program has been working closely with the Deaf community, a highly underserved group. This project will insure a stream of health and science professionals who are skilled in American Sign Language (ASL) and Deaf culture and are interested in cancer prevention, early detection, prompt intervention, and clinical trials. Ten UCSD medical students will take ASL classes as their first and second year electives. This special course will teach basic ASL proficiency and deaf culture awareness plus medical terminology in ASL (with a special focus on cancer related issues). During the summer between the first and second project will consist of six week ASL and Deaf culture immersion program at Gallaudet University the summer between students' first and second years of medical school. During weeks seven and eight, students will volunteer two weeks full time at a Deaf Community Service agency assignment in San Diego. Medical students will start a Pre-Health Professional ASL Club for undergraduates to: encourage those who are interested in ASL to consider careers in health and science professions: interest undergraduate pre-health profession students in taking ASL classes; create various opportunities for students to interact with the Deaf community, and to teach ASL vocabulary for medical terminology commonly used by the public. They will create a student led, year long health seminar series for the Deaf community in collaboration with Deaf Community Services of San Diego, Inc. The members of the Pre-Health Professional Club will help the medical students coordinate the Deaf community health education programs. During the fourth year of medical school students will choose one elective in an area that will give them the opportunity to interact with the Deaf community. This could be medical students internship at a summer camp for deaf children or an internship at the Student Health Center of the Mental Health Center at Gallaudet University.