Engaging Community in Your Work - How to do it and Why it Matters

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Part of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (HDFCCC) K12 Program's Career Development and Leadership Seminar Series that includes career development and leadership topics to help physician-scientists advance their careers. It's a 2-year curriculum with topics repeating every other year

Speakers:

• Kim Rhoads, MD, MS, MPH - Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF; Director, Office of Community Engagement and Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

• Michael Potter, MD - Professor, Clinical Family and Community Medicine, UCSF

• Samuel Washington III, MD, MAS - Assistant Professor of Urology; Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Community Engagement Liaison, Prostate Cancer Program, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; Associate Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Department of Urology, UCSF

Learning Objectives:

• Explain what is meant by this statement: "Meaningful community engagement requires putting community at the center of the research." 
• Describe the spectrum of approaches to community-engaged research and the different points in a project where community contributions can make a difference.
• Discuss the difference between community engagement and clinical trial recruitment and retention