Integrated Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Training (IMPORT) in Psychiatry

项目摘要 从事以病人为导向的研究的医生人数下降，引起了全国对以下问题的关注： 公共卫生保健方面迫在眉睫的危机。虽然许多医学领域受到影响，但精神病学的问题是， 特别是严重的，预计短缺促使医学研究所对问题进行分析。 具有讽刺意味的是，精神科医生追求以病人为导向的研究事业的短缺发生在一个时间， 遗传学和神经科学领域正在对我们对行为的理解产生前所未有的影响。翻译 这种对病人护理领域发现的基础科学见解对于提高我们的理解和 治疗多种精神疾病。目前的R25更新旨在进一步解决目前的危机， 通过几个具体目标，在过去10年成功的基础上，开展心理健康研究教育。 这些措施包括：1）继续教育精神病住院医师在既定的（“传统”）模式下， 指导的以患者为导向的研究培训（IMPORT），2）通过添加修改后的 （“早期沉浸”）的轨道，旨在更好地适应具有更多研究经验的学员， 应对日益复杂的翻译研究方法，以及3）通过增加 早期（PG1）选修时间，指导委员会，在赠款写作的教育经验（包括机会， 确保试点资金），并加强招聘。如果成功续约，该计划将继续受益于 通过增加确定、征聘和保留一支高技能的面向病人的 精神科医生科学家，并通过试点和实施灵活的，个性化的研究教育模式， 全国精神病学住院医师项目

Project Summary Declines in the numbers of physicians pursuing careers in patient-oriented research have raised national concerns about an impending crisis in public health care. While numerous medical fields are affected, the problem in psychiatry is particularly acute, with projected shortages prompting an analysis of the problem by the Institute of Medicine. Ironically, shortages of psychiatrists pursuing patient-oriented research careers occur at a time when discoveries in the fields of genetics and neuroscience are having an unprecedented impact on our understanding of behavior. Translating such basic science insights into discoveries in the patient-care realm will ne crucial for improving out understanding and treatment of several mental illnesses. The current R25 renewal is intended to further address the current crisis in mental heath research education through several specific aims, aims that build upon prior success of the past 10 years. These include 1) continuing to educate psychiatry residents under established (“traditional”) model of Intergrated Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Training (IMPORT), 2) building upon this model through the addition of a modified (“early immersion”) track that is designed to better accommodate trainees with greater research experience and respond to increasingly complex translational research methods, and 3) augmenting both models by the addition of early (PG1) elective time, mentoring committees, educational experiences in grant writing (including opportunities for securing pilot funding), and enhanced recruitment. If successfully renewed, the program will continue to benefit the nation, through the increased identification, recruitment and retention of a highly skilled cadre of patient-oriented psychiatric physician scientists, and by piloting and implementing a flexible, individualized model of research education for psychiatry residency programs nationally.