Development, implementation, and assessment of a lecture course on cancer for undergraduates.

ABSTRACT: The war on cancer has been waged for nearly 40 years, yet the cancer burden remains high, especially among minority and underserved populations. One strategy to make strides in the war on cancer and its disparate impacts is to increase the diversity of the cancer research workforce. We describe an approach to recruit a diverse population of future cancer researchers from an undergraduate student population at a minority-serving land-grant institution. Specifically, we have addressed the following questions: Given the dearth of published reports of undergraduate cancer courses, is it possible for undergraduates at a land-grant institution (rather than a research or medical institution) to successfully learn cancer biology from a lecture-based course? Can we develop a template that has the p

SUBMITTER: Shuster M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2736023 | biostudies-literature | 2009

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature