TRAINING IN PSYCHIATRIC GENETICS

本R25申请响应NIMH RFA，“培训未来的心理健康临床研究人员”，并寻求在精神病学遗传学方面建立一个新的教育临床研究培训计划。拟议培训计划的总体目标是填补临床研究博士后培训机会的空白。目前，一个年轻的科学家很难获得精神病学遗传学的集中训练。有许多优秀的培训项目专注于精神病学遗传学课程的组成部分，但很少有在这一学科的所有领域提供完整的培训。该培训项目的执行主任在精神病学遗传学领域工作了30多年，并创建了一个广泛的研究基础设施，汇集了各种独立的研究人员，他们长期合作，努力了解精神疾病的遗传基础。培训和发展新调查员一直是我们共同努力的基石。在这个提案中，我们试图通过创建一个全面的、多学科的博士后培训计划，为有前途的年轻心理健康临床医生提供从事精神病学遗传学临床研究所需的工具，从而使我们的承诺正规化，为未来几代独立研究人员做好准备。该计划的目标是：1)创建一个连贯的精神病学教学和体验式博士后培训计划2)利用来自多个学科的教师来实施这个培训计划：精神病学，心理学，统计遗传学，分子遗传学，行为遗传学，神经心理学和神经科学；3)通过评估受训者在培训期间达到以下目标的能力来评估该计划：a)教学课程的平均成绩保持在3.5分；B)每年发表两篇论文；c)提交并资助一项竞争性资助申请。最后，我们将寻求建立一种培训基础设施，一方面使学生受益于科学和技术的快速发展，另一方面也受益于它们在道德、法律和社会方面的影响。

This R25 application responds to the NIMH RFA, "Training Future Mental Health Clinical Researchers," and seeks to establish a new educational clinical research training program in psychiatric genetics. The overall aim of the proposed training program is to fill a gap in the post-doctoral training opportunities available in clinical research. Currently, it is difficult for a young scientist to acquire a focused training in psychiatric genetics. There are many excellent training programs that focus on components of the psychiatric genetics curriculum, but few that provide complete training in all areas of this discipline. The Executive Director of this training program has worked in the field of psychiatric genetics for over three decades, and has created an extensive research infrastructure that has brought together a variety of independent investigators who have long collaborated together in productive efforts to understand the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders. The training and development of new investigators has always been a cornerstone of our collective efforts. In this proposal, we seek to formalize our commitment to prepare future generations of independent researchers by creating a comprehensive, multidisciplinary post-doctoral training program to provide promising young mental health clinicians with the tools needed to pursue clinical research in psychiatric genetics. The goals of the program are: 1) To create a coherent didactic and experiential post-doctoral training program in psychiatric 2) To implement this training program using faculty from multiple disciplines: psychiatry, psychology, statistical genetics, molecular genetics, behavioral genetics, neuropsychology and neuroscience; and 3) To evaluate this program by assessing the ability of trainees to attain the following goals during their training: a) maintenance of a 3.5 grade point average in didactic courses; b) publication of two papers per year and c) submission and funding of a competitive grant application. Finally, we will seek to create a training infrastructure that will allow students to benefit from the rapid advances of science and technology on the one hand, and their ethical, legal and social consequences, on the other.