Empowering the Next Generation of Cancer Professionals: the Fox Chase Cancer Center-University of Delaware Partnership for Undergraduate Research and Career Development

赋予下一代癌症专业人士权力：福克斯蔡斯癌症中心-特拉华大学本科生研究和职业发展合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: 10333087
• 负责人: ERICA A. GOLEMIS
• 金额: $ 21.52万
• 依托单位: RESEARCH INST OF FOX CHASE CAN CTR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-15 至 2027-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10333087
• 关键词: Address; Arts; Cancer Biology; Career Choice; Clinical; Clinical Research; Communication; Communities; Comprehensive Cancer Center; Critical Thinking; Decision Making; Delaware; Development; Education; Elements; Ensure; Evaluation; Event; Exposure to; Feedback; Fellowship Program; Foundations; Fox Chase Cancer Center; Foxes; Goals; Health Personnel; Healthcare Market; High School Student; Human Resources; Immersion; Incentives; Internships; Laboratories; Laboratory Research; Learning; Learning Skill; Malignant Neoplasms; Mentors; Oral; Physicians; Provider; Recording of previous events; Research; Research Ethics; Research Personnel; Resources; Rotation; Science; Scientist; Students; Techniques; Time; Training; Training Programs; United States; Universities; Visit; Work; aging population; anticancer research; base; cancer care; career; career development; career networking; college; design; empowered; experience; faculty mentor; graduate student; health care delivery; interest; medical schools; meetings; next generation; novel; peer; posters; programs; recruit; research and development; scientific literacy; skill acquisition; skills; social; statistics; success; summer internship; summer research; symposium; tool; undergraduate research; undergraduate research experience; undergraduate student

PROJECT SUMMARY The number of cancer healthcare providers and researchers is not expected to keep pace with the aging population of the United States, creating an imperative to educate and motivate the next generation of cancer professionals. Experiential research laboratory internships have been shown to be an impactful way to incentivize students toward careers in cancer research, but often such programs are limited in number and scope, thus impeding their potential to influence undergraduate course selection and long-term career goals. Moreover, such experiences do not emphasize critical ancillary skills, such as scientific literacy, designing and presenting posters and seminars, and networking. The Fox Chase Cancer Center-University of Delaware Summer Fellowship Program seeks to provide twelve underclassmen with a residential, intensive 10-week summer internship focused on basic laboratory skill acquisition, a cancer research experience tailored to the student's interests, and complementary training and guidance in professional development. Students will be recruited to this program via an introductory, day-long exposure to the Center, which will include brief research laboratory rotations and discussion of cancer-focused, STEM-based careers; this introductory visit is open to all University of Delaware students in the College of Arts and Sciences. Metrics of programmatic success will be obtained through weekly meetings with mentors and students, pre- and post-internship evaluations, and long- term tracking of student career decisions. Through this program, we aim to incorporate students into the cancer research community, inspire them to pursue careers that are critical in the ongoing battle against cancer, and equip them with the tools required to succeed as professionals.

项目概要 癌症医疗保健提供者和研究人员的数量预计不会跟上老龄化的步伐 美国人口，迫切需要教育和激励下一代癌症 专业人士。体验式研究实验室实习已被证明是一种有效的方式 激励学生从事癌症研究职业，但此类项目的数量和数量往往有限 范围，从而阻碍了他们影响本科课程选择和长期职业目标的潜力。 此外，此类经历并不强调关键的辅助技能，例如科学素养、设计和 展示海报、研讨会和网络。特拉华大学福克斯蔡斯癌症中心 暑期奖学金计划旨在为 12 名低年级学生提供为期 10 周的住宿强化课程 暑期实习重点是获得基本的实验室技能，这是一种针对癌症研究的经验 学生的兴趣，以及专业发展方面的补充培训和指导。学生将 通过对中心进行为期一天的介绍性接触而被招募到该项目，其中包括简短的研究 实验室轮换以及以癌症为中心、基于 STEM 的职业讨论；这次介绍性访问向所有人开放 特拉华大学文理学院的学生。计划成功的衡量标准将是 通过与导师和学生的每周会议、实习前和实习后评估以及长期评估获得 学生职业决策的学期跟踪。通过这个项目，我们的目标是让学生融入到癌症研究中 研究界，激励他们追求在持续抗击癌症中至关重要的职业，以及 为他们提供成为专业人士所需的成功工具。