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  • Cancer Research Training
  • Health Disparities Research
  • Underrepresented Minorities (URM) in STEM

Background:

  • Growing emphasis on interdisciplinary research training programs.
  • Limited evaluation data available for such programs to assess effectiveness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Describe the development of evaluation systems for a U.S. academic partnership.
  • Train minority students as cancer researchers.
  • Provide preliminary data on partnership activities.

Main Methods:

  • Established a partnership between academic institutions to train underrepresented minority (URM) students.
  • Developed evaluation framework with goals, objectives, measures, and data sources.
  • Focused on the Research Education Core (REC) and Planning Evaluation Core (PEC).

Main Results:

  • Jointly developed evaluation measures for the REC and PEC through an iterative process.
  • Captured training activities, trainee scientific output (papers, grants), and goal attainment.
  • Collected preliminary data on partnership activities over the first six months.

Conclusions:

  • The Planning Evaluation Core (PEC) will manage the 5-year evaluation.
  • The PEC will support partnership leaders in achieving successful training outcomes.
  • Emphasizes the need for pre-program evaluation plan development and iterative measure refinement.