Influence of a National Cancer Institute transdisciplinary research and training initiative on trainees' transdisciplinary research competencies and scholarly productivity

Translational Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 459-468

  Vogel, Amanda L ^a,e   Feng, Annie ^b   Oh, April ^a   Hall, Kara L ^c   Stipelman, Brooke A ^c   Stokols, Daniel ^d   Okamoto, Janet ^c   Perna, Frank M ^c   Moser, Richard ^c   Nebeling, Linda ^c  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b Feng Consulting   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Interdisciplinary; Multi mentoring; Training; Transdisciplinary

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CANCER RESEARCH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SKILL; STUDENT;

EID: 84871487518     PISSN: 18696716     EISSN: 16139860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13142-012-0173-0     Document Type: Article

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