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The Minority Training Program in Cancer Control Research: Impact and Outcome Over 12 Years

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The Minority Training Program in Cancer Control Research (MTPCCR) encourages underrepresented master's level students and professionals in the social, behavioral, and public health sciences to pursue doctoral training and careers in cancer disparities research. This paper reports new data on the program outcome after 12 years. A web-based survey was sent to all 462 program alumni. The questions addressed current academic status and plans, job status and plans, research focus, and influence of the MTPCCR. The survey response rate was 79 %. Overall, 30 % of alumni are enrolled in or have completed doctoral programs; 88 % of whom report involvement in research related to cancer. Scaled and open-ended responses indicate a strong influence of the program on doctoral program enrollment and cancer focus. The MTPCCR model is successful because it targets underrepresented minorities who are capable of doctoral studies but have not yet chosen that path.

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  1. We previously validated our measure of intention to apply among all alumni who were 5 years past their summer institute (n = 130). Testing their post-institute rating of intention to apply to a doctoral program (1–10 scale, 10 being strongly intend to apply), comparing those who enrolled and those who did not, the mean score of those who entered a doctoral program within 5 years was 9.4 vs. 8.0 for those who did not (p = 0.0003).

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Acknowledgments

This program is funded by National Cancer Institute, grant # 5R25CA078583. We would like to thank all our alumni for their responsiveness to our data requests and support of the program.

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  1. Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1450 3rd Street, MC 0128, San Francisco, CA, 94158-9001, USA

    Rena J. Pasick

  2. Department of Community Health Science, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Marjorie Kagawa-Singer & Sherry C. Kidd

  3. Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Biostatistics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    Susan L. Stewart

  4. Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, 50 Beale Street, San Francisco, CA, 94143-1224, USA

    Amy Pradhan

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Pasick, R.J., Kagawa-Singer, M., Stewart, S.L. et al. The Minority Training Program in Cancer Control Research: Impact and Outcome Over 12 Years. J Canc Educ 27, 443–449 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-012-0375-7

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