Table 2.

Formative interview questions asked of potential scholars

Interview questions	Probes (where applicable)
1. Please tell me a bit about the focus of your work	• Are you an undergraduate or graduate student? Postdoc? Faculty member? Practitioner? • What is your cancer focus and populations of interest? • Previous/desired experience in cancer prevention and control and/or implementation science?
2. What would you like to learn from such a training program in implementation science?
3. How would this program help with your career?
4. What deliverable(s) would you like to have at the end of this training program?
5. Might you currently have an implementation science project you are working on locally that you can engage with and/or would you be interested in joining a new project within the CPCRN?
6. How long would you like to participate in such a training program?	• Probe: in other words, how much time would you have for this program? ○ A summer? ○ A semester? ○ Up to a year? ○ More than one year?
7. In your opinion, how large should the group of scholars be?
8. What type of mentoring would be helpful for you in this program?
9. We are interested in your ideas for how you would want to participate in the program and how you would want to connect with scholars at other CPCRN sites. Would you join in: • Bi-monthly webinars on implementation science or career development topics? Could you tell us why or why not? • Online discussions via Zoom? Could you tell us why or why not? • Via discussion board for exchanges with other scholars or facilitators? Could you tell us why or why not? • Do you have other ideas?
10. What type of recognition would you like to receive at the end of the program, if any?	• Certificate? • Ceremony? • Other
11. Are there any other ideas or comments you would like to share with us?