Short-Term Training on Epidemiologic Methods

流行病学研究学会(SER)是当今世界上历史最悠久、规模最大的流行病学家协会。SER的一个主要目标是促进流行病学学生和年轻研究人员的职业发展。实现这一目标的一种方法是为从事论文工作的博士生提供一个论坛，这些论文利用各种实质性领域的各种流行病学研究，但重点是癌症，以便与他们的同行和资深流行病学家互动。这是通过在每年6月SER年度科学会议的前一天为12名学生举办为期一天的学生讲习班来实现的。该研讨会于1977年首次举办，至今已连续举办了30年。研讨会的目的是为博士生提供一个机会，让他们的论文工作在支持和建设性的氛围中得到高级流行病学家和教师的审查、批评和讨论，他们是“现实世界”中富有成效的研究人员，拥有各种流行病学、临床和方法论专业知识。 每年，新当选的社长担任学生研讨会主席，并挑选一位在癌症方面有专长的联合主席，由他在研讨会前一晚进行正式演讲。当选总统还挑选了一个由4名教员组成的小组，每个人都是有经验的流行病学家/生物统计学家和导师。博士水平的流行病学学生在其论文研究的任何阶段，从设计到分析，都有资格申请。从平均32名申请者中，12名学生是在对他们的研究方案进行盲目审查的基础上挑选出来的，其中至少有一半(12人中的6人)的建议集中在癌症上。每个教员都被分配了三个方案来深入回顾并在研讨会上领导讨论。所有学生和教职员工都参与所有提案的讨论。在论文工作期间，教员还为他们的3名学生担任导师。这些讲习班的成功和价值已从每年持续不断的新申请者、现有参与者的评价信以及过去参与者的支持信和出色的学业表现中清楚地体现出来。最近和未来参与者的成就将被跟踪10年，并发布在SER网站上。这项申请要求NCI为SER学生研讨会提供为期5年的资金。

The Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) is the oldest and largest society of epidemiologists in the world today. A primary objective of the SER is to foster the professional development of students of epidemiology and young investigators. One way to meet this objective is by providing a forum for doctoral-level students working on theses that utilize various types of epidemiologic studies in various substantive areas but with an emphasis on cancer to interact with their peers and senior epidemiologists. This has been accomplished by conducting a one-day Student Workshop for 12 students on the day before the SER annual scientific meeting in June of each year. The workshop, which first took place in 1977, has been conducted continuously for 30 years. The purpose of the workshop is to provide doctoral students an opportunity to have their thesis work reviewed, critiqued, and discussed in a supportive and constructive atmosphere by senior epidemiologists and teachers who are productive researchers in the "real world" and who have a variety of epidemiologic, clinical, and methodological expertise. Each year, the new President-Elect of SER serves as the Student Workshop Chair and selects a co-Chair with expertise in cancer, who gives a formal lecture the evening before the workshop. The President-Elect also selects a panel of 4 faculty members, each an accomplished epidemiologist/biostatistician and mentor. Doctoral-level epidemiology students at any stage of their thesis research, from design to analysis, are eligible to apply. From an average pool of 32 applicants, 12 students are selected based on a blind review of their research protocols, with at least one-half (6 of 12) of the chosen proposals focusing on cancer. Each faculty member is assigned 3 protocols to review in depth and lead the discussion at the workshop. All students and faculty participate in the discussion of all proposals. Faculty members also serve as mentors for their 3 students for the duration of the thesis work. The success and value of these workshops has been clearly demonstrated by the consistent yearly pool of new applicants, the letters of evaluation from current participants, and the letters of support and strong academic performance of past participants. The accomplishments of recent and future participants will be tracked for 10 years and posted on the SER website. This application requests a 5-year continuation of NCI funding of the SER Student Workshop.