Cancer Prevention Education: Student Research Experiences

描述（由申请人提供）：这是德克萨斯大学安德森癌症中心癌症预防教育：学生研究经历（该计划，www.cancerpreventiontraining.org）第16至20年的竞争性R25E更新申请。自1992年开始，目标是为学生提供癌症预防研究和教育的短期研究经验，作为招募他们从事癌症预防研究的手段。我们开发了基于课程的方法，为来自基础生物医学、生物统计学、流行病学、遗传学、行为和社会科学、护理学、医学和相关公共卫生学科的研究生和少数民族本科生提供新的知识和机会，与教师导师一起开展癌症预防研究项目。从最初的10个预算职位开始，每年增加2个，从第5年开始每年支持18个职位，现在该计划要求增加7个三个月的职位，以增加更复杂和复杂项目的灵活性。这一要求是基于我们记录的更大的教师能力来提供高质量的指导研究机会，以及对现有职位的需求增加。到目前为止，所有的职位都是每年招聘一次。在开始体验之前，每个学生与他或她的导师和项目主任一起制定一个教育计划，其中包括研究目标、时间表和学习目标。咨询委员会根据学生的教育目标和研究计划的优点进行审查和选择。学生将获得有限资金的助学金，用于必修课程“癌症预防主题I和II”的学费。学生们在我们的癌症预防培训学员研讨会上口头报告他们的研究经历。根据学生教育计划的具体目标，导师的评估和学生的自我评估确定了研究经验的优势和局限性。具体目标是每年招收和选拔学生填补25个职位；维持和增加潜在教师导师的数量，并表彰模范导师；保持创新和有效的招聘和申请程序；维持咨询委员会的审查和监督职能；保持过程和结果的评估，并长期跟踪学员；更新和扩展该项目在癌症预防方面的多学科课程。该计划提出了几项创新：1)在课程中增加一门癌症预防的生物行为方法课程和一系列研讨会，“癌症预防的下一步职业决策”；并改进项目的互联网工具，用于招聘、导师和项目选择、校友跟踪和按需学习（如视频播放）。总体而言，该项目的成功体现在许多方面，从学生的研究报告和出版物，到硕士论文和博士论文的发展，以及越来越多的校友完成培训并目前在癌症预防研究方面担任学术职位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a competitive R25E renewal application for years 16 to 20 of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Cancer Prevention Education: Student Research Experiences (the Program, www.cancerpreventiontraining.org). Since the beginning in 1992, the objective has been to provide short-term research experiences in cancer prevention research and education to students as a means to recruit them to careers in cancer prevention research. We have developed curriculum-based methods that provide new knowledge and opportunities for graduate students and minority undergraduates from the basic biomedical sciences, biostatistics, epidemiology, genetics, behavioral and social sciences, nursing, medicine, and related public health disciplines to work with faculty mentors on cancer prevention research projects. Beginning with 10 budgeted positions and increasing by 2 per year to 18 positions supported annually since year 5, the Program now requests 7 additional three-month positions to add flexibility for more involved and complex projects. The request is based on our documented greater faculty capacity to provide high-quality mentored research opportunities and increased demand for the existing positions. To date, all positions have been filled annually. Before beginning the experience, each student develops with his or her mentor and the Program Directors an educational plan with research objectives, a timeline, and learning objectives. The Advisory Committee reviews and selects the students based on the merit of their educational objectives and research plan. Students receive a stipend with limited funds available for tuition for required courses, "Topics in Cancer Prevention I & II." Students deliver an oral report on their research experience at our Cancer Prevention Trainee Brown Bag seminars. A mentor's evaluation and students self-evaluations identify strengths and limitations of the research experience, based on the specific goals in the student's educational plan. The Specific Aims are to recruit and select students to fill 25 positions annually; to maintain and increase pool of potential faculty mentors and to recognize model mentors; to maintain innovative and effective recruitment and application processes; to maintain the review and oversight functions of the Advisory Committee; to maintain process and outcome evaluation, and long-term tracking of trainees; and to update and expand the Program's multi-disciplinary curriculum in cancer prevention. Several innovations to the Program are proposed: 1) to add to the curriculum a course in bio-behavioral methods in cancer prevention and a seminar series, "Decision-making for Next Career Steps in Cancer Prevention"; and to improve the Program's Internet tools for recruitment, mentor and project selection, alumni follow-up, and on-demand learning (e.g., videocasting). Overall, the Program's success takes many forms, from students' research presentations and publications, to development of master's theses and doctoral dissertations, as well as the growing number of alumni who have completed training and currently hold academic positions in cancer prevention research.