The USF-Moffitt Cancer Disparity post-doctoral fellow is expected to complete the following core requirements in order to meet the program’s training objectives:
- Acquire a Basic Understanding of the Prevention, Detection, Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer;
- Become Familiar with the Major Studies and Findings in the Area of cancer disparity;
- Gain Expertise in Methodologies Needed to Conduct Transdisciplinary cancer disparity research;
- Be Able to Critically Review and Evaluate Research in Cancer disparity;
- Gain an Understanding of Fundamental Issues Regarding the Ethical Conduct of Research;
- Be Able to Formulate a Novel Research Question in Cancer disparity and Design a Methodologically Sound Study to Answer the Question;
- Present a minimum of 2 abstracts at national/international professional conferences related to current work;
- Complete and publish 2 peer-reviewed manuscripts related to current research
- Application submitted for 1 K award or application for R03 at the completion of the one year curriculum
- Be competent in Community-Based Participatory Research;
- Examine and gain an understanding of the latest findings of specific research on disparities in health;
- Demonstrate awareness of cultural competency skills.