A student-community partnership to enhance cancer research training.

Autor: Melillo RJ; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, United States. rebecca.melillo@jefferson.edu., El Khoury C; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, United States., Shaver AL; Division of Population Science, Department of Medical Oncology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, United States., Cunningham M; Department of Urology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, United States., Benavides N; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, United States., Lacerda Q; Department of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, United States., Kim FJ; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, United States.; Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Cancer Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, United States., Leader AE; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, United States.; Division of Population Science, Department of Medical Oncology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, United States.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BMC medical education [BMC Med Educ] 2024 Oct 17; Vol. 24 (1), pp. 1164. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 17.
DOI: 10.1186/s12909-024-06144-0
Abstrakt: Background: Despite the importance of community involvement in research, little formal training in community outreach and engagement (COE) is offered to cancer research trainees. A collaboration between the Office of COE and the Office of Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination (CRTEC) at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Jefferson led to the COE-CRTEC Trainee Working Group, a unique program in which trainees in cancer research each created a novel COE initiative.
Methods: Four cancer research trainees were selected to serve as COE Program Liaisons (CPLs), each aligned with one of the four cancer center research programs. Each CPL developed, implemented, and evaluated a project that enhanced the bidirectional relationship between their research and the community. Trainees were provided a modest budget, support from the Office of COE, and a requirement to complete the project within one academic year.
Results: Projects included a cancer education seminar for older adults at a senior center, a prostate cancer education and screening event at a predominantly African American church, a video demonstrating a day in the life of a skin cancer researcher, and a podcast that featured SKCCC investigators answering research questions from community members.
Conclusion: Students who would not typically be exposed to COE training gained experience developing, implementing, and evaluating community-based initiatives. Projects were diverse in topic and approach, reflecting the diversity of the trainees and the community. Allowing trainees, those who are the next generation of cancer researchers, to design community-based research may lead to more patient-centered research in the future.
(© 2024. The Author(s).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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