Appalachian Career Training in Oncology (ACTION) Program

阿巴拉契亚肿瘤学职业培训 (ACTION) 计划

• 批准号: 10475257
• 负责人: Bernard Mark Evers
• 金额: $ 45.98万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-18 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10475257
• 关键词: Academic achievement; Achievement; Address; Appalachian Region; Area; Award; Cancer Burden; Cancer Center; Cancer Research Project; Clinical; Communities; Country; County; Data; Degree Completion; Degree program; Doctor' s Degree; Early Intervention; Economically Deprived Population; Education; Education and Outreach; Educational Intervention; Educational workshop; Faculty; Family; Fostering; Funding; Goals; Health; Health Personnel; Healthcare; Home; Incidence; Income; Intervention; Kentucky; Knowledge; Link; Literature; Localized Malignant Neoplasm; Malignant Neoplasms; Mentors; Mentorship; Participant; Population; Poverty; Poverty Areas; Preparation; Primary Schools; Readiness; Research; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Rest; Rural; Rural Population; Schools; Science; Secondary Schools; Socioeconomic Status; Students; Training; Training and Education; Underrepresented Students; Underserved Population; United States; Universities; Youth; anticancer research; cancer care; cancer education; cancer health disparity; cancer site; career; career development; career preparation; clinical care; economic indicator; education research; experience; faculty mentor; health literacy; high risk; high school; higher education; literacy; matriculation; medically underserved; mortality; oncology program; outreach; peer; peer learning; peer networks; programs; rural area; science education; skills; socioeconomic disparity; socioeconomics; student training; undergraduate student; underserved community; underserved students

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Appalachian Kentucky has significant challenges associated with health, socioeconomic, and education disparities. This predominantly rural region not only has the highest cancer incidence and mortality rates in the United States, it is also one of the most economically disadvantaged, medically underserved, and poorly educated regions of the country in which less than 1% of residents earn doctoral degrees. These disparities form the basis for the need to create targeted educational and scientific workforce preparedness and health literacy intervention strategies for this population. As such, the research, educational, and outreach strengths of the University of Kentucky's Markey Cancer Center will be leveraged to develop the Appalachian Career Training In ONcology (ACTION) Program as a Youth Enjoy Science education intervention. The ACTION Program will immerse underrepresented and underserved high school and undergraduate students from Appalachian Kentucky in cross-disciplinary mentored research projects, cancer care observational experiences, and cancer education and career development activities, as well as provide hands-on community and school outreach opportunities. The overarching goal of the program is to enhance cancer-focused biomedical workforce diversity in a high-risk, rural population and to increase the community's cancer-related literacy. Expected impacts of the program include: 1) increasing our students' matriculation into post-secondary, professional, and/or graduate science degree programs; 2) instilling in our students lifelong commitments to research, education/outreach, or health care careers focused on the cancer burden and unique challenges in Appalachian Kentucky and beyond; and, 3) enhancing the Appalachian Kentucky community's understanding of cancer research and clinical care, linking these facets to the benefits of science education. The overarching goal and the program impacts will be accomplished through four Specific Aims including: 1) developing participants' cancer research knowledge and skills through cross-disciplinary faculty-mentored research training experiences; 2) enhancing students' cancer- focused career preparation by providing didactic cancer education and career development mentoring through faculty-led courses, workshops, seminars, and career coaching and mentoring; 3) conducting outreach activities in participant communities to increase the understanding of the research and clinical aspects of cancer and the importance of science education among universities; primary and secondary school groups; civic organizations; health care providers; and the families and communities of our student participants; and, 4) evaluating program progress and impacts, focusing on longitudinal participant data (including tracking progression of participants through their academic and professional careers) and outreach activity efficacy. Ultimately, the program will establish a new paradigm for enhancing cancer-focused educational preparation among rural, low- socioeconomic students and increasing citizens' understanding of cancer and the importance of science education in rural, low-socioeconomic and low-education-attainment areas.

项目摘要/摘要 阿巴拉契亚肯塔基州与健康，社会经济和教育有重大挑战 差异。这个主要是农村地区的不仅是癌症的发病率和死亡率最高的 美国，它也是经济上最不利的，医学上贫乏和贫困的人之一 不到1％的居民获得博士学位的该国受过教育的地区。这些差异形成 需要创造有针对性的教育和科学劳动力的准备和健康素养的基础 该人群的干预策略。因此，研究，教育和外展优势 肯塔基大学的Markey癌症中心将被利用来开发阿巴拉契亚职业培训 在肿瘤学（行动）计划中，作为一项青年享受科学教育干预措施。行动计划将 浸入阿巴拉契亚人的人为不足和服务不足的高中和本科生 肯塔基州跨学科指导的研究项目，癌症护理观察经验和癌症 教育和职业发展活动，并提供动手的社区和学校宣传 机会。该计划的总体目标是增强以癌症为中心的生物医学劳动力多样性 在高风险的农村人口中，并提高了社区与癌症相关的识字率。预期的影响 计划包括：1）将学生入学到专业，专业和/或研究生中 科学学位课程； 2）向我们的学生灌输终生的研究，教育/宣传或 医疗保健职业的重点是阿巴拉契亚肯塔基州及其他地区的癌症负担和独特的挑战； 3）增强阿巴拉契亚肯塔基州社区对癌症研究和临床护理的理解， 将这些方面与科学教育的好处联系起来。总体目标和计划的影响将是 通过四个特定目标完成，包括：1）发展参与者的癌症研究知识和 通过跨学科的教师管理的研究培训经验的技能； 2）增强学生的癌症 - 通过提供教学癌症教育和职业发展指导，以专注于职业准备 教师领导的课程，研讨会，研讨会以及职业教练和指导； 3）进行外展活动 在参与社区中，以增加对癌症研究和临床方面的理解 大学之间科学教育的重要性；小学和中学小组；公民组织； 医疗保健提供者；以及我们的学生参与者的家庭和社区； 4）评估程序 进步和影响，重点关注纵向参与者数据（包括跟踪参与者的进展 通过他们的学术和职业职业）和外展活动功效。最终，该计划将 建立一个新的范式，以增强农村，低 - 社会经济的学生，增加公民对癌症的理解和科学的重要性 在农村，低社会经济和低教育领域的教育。