South Carolina Cancer Health Equity Consortium: HBCU Student Summer Training Program
Abstract
There is a severe shortage of diverse biomedical scientists in the United States and in South Carolina. The goal of the South Carolina Cancer Health Equity Consortium: HBCU Student Summer Training Program is to provide a biomedical research training experience to 12 students (i.e., Student Fellows) from three Historically Black Colleges/Universities - Claflin University, South Carolina State University, and Voorhees College over a three-year period. The major goals of the Training Program are: Goal 1.) To provide training in biomedical and prostate cancer research through the participation of four Student Fellows each year in a newly developed 15 credit hour prostate cancer health equity research course; Goal 2.) To conduct a hands-on research laboratory intensive with four Student Fellows each year. Each Student Fellow will complete a 10-week research project; Goal 3.) To provide the Student Fellows with clinical, cultural, and biotechnical learning opportunities through clinical shadowing experiences with physicians and/or other allied health care professionals; observations of a multidisciplinary prostate cancer tumor board; lay navigation shadowing in the clinical setting to gain experiences in the cultural and social context of prostate cancer treatment/survivorship issues; and interacting with biotechnical experts within the HCC shared resources/courses (e.g., Cancer Genomics, Proteomics, Biorepository and Tissue Analysis, Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting, Cell and Molecular Imaging, and Lipidomics); Goal 4.) To prepare tangible scientific products through extended mentoring with the Student Fellows such as scientific abstracts and research papers summarizing their prostate cancer research Results: During the current reporting period, 4 Student Fellows were identified, recruited to participate in the program, and admitted to the South Carolina Cancer Health Equity Consortium: HBCU Student Summer Training Program.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2016
- Accession Number
- AD1016988
Entities
People
- Judith D. Salley
- Leroy Davis
- Marvella E Ford
- Omar Bagasra
Organizations
- Medical University of South Carolina