CLINICAL RESEARCH TRAINING IN CHILD PSYCHIATRY

本申请是5 T32 MH 18951 -07的竞争性更新，这是一个为儿童精神病学家，儿童心理学家和其他相关领域的专业博士准备的博士后临床研究培训计划。要求为四名住院后儿童精神病学家、四名博士后儿童心理学家和四名医科学生提供夏季研究选修课的支助。在夏季的研究经验，医学生将与研究导师从培训教师的项目阅读，以一个可持续的产品，以激发儿童精神病学研究更大的兴趣。博士后培训计划帮助学员开发原创和深刻的研究问题，并获得必要的技术专长，为他们在以下至少一个领域的职业生涯和独立调查员做好准备：（1）心理社会和精神药理学临床试验;（2）精神卫生服务研究;（3）心理和心理生物学因素在发展精神病理学的发病和过程中;（4）心理学和心理生物学因素在发展精神病理学中的作用。和（4）与发展性精神病理学相关的基础科学研究（例如，遗传学、发育神经科学）。一个多学科的教师小组与研究和研究培训的长期和成功的历史参与该计划，在所有上述领域的专业知识。 该计划的最重要的方面是学员与学术上成功的导师配对，导师将让学员参与现有项目，监督他们制定重要的审查文件和相关协议，反映该领域的重大进展，并将导致独立的研究和资金。将为每个受训者制定一个个性化的教学研究课程，以确保获得与受训者研究兴趣相关的研究设计，统计和内容领域的核心知识。学员将通过以下三个研讨会获得核心技能：（1）发展性精神病理学文献的批判性评价;（2）研究问题的制定，赠款写作和项目管理（“研究生存技能”）;以及（3）管理研究中的伦理问题。

This application is a competitive renewal of 5T32MH18951-07, a postdoctoral clinical research training program for child psychiatrists, child psychologists, and other doctorally-prepared professionally in related fields. Support is requested for four post-residency child psychiatrists, four post-doctoral child psychologists, and four medical students for summer research electives. In the summer research experience, medical students will work with a research preceptor from the training faculty on a project reading to a publishable product in order to stimulate greater interest in child psychiatry research. The postdoctoral training program helps trainees develop original and incisive research questions, and acquire requisite technical expertise to prepare them for careers ad independent investigators in at least one of the following areas: (1) psychosocial and psychopharmacological clinical trials; (2) mental health services research; (3) psychological and psychobiological factors in the onset and course of developmental psychopathology; and (4) basic science research linked to developmental psychopathology (e.g., genetics, developmental neuroscience). An multi- disciplinary faculty group with a long and successful history of research and research training is involved with the program, with expertise in all of the above-noted areas. The foremost aspect of the program is the pairing of the trainee with an academically successful mentor who will involve the trainee in existing projects, supervise them in the development of a critical review paper and of a related protocol that reflects a significant advance in the field and will lead to independent research and funding. A individually tailored course of didactic study will be developed for each trainee to insure the acquisition of core knowledge in research design, statistics, and content areas relevant to the research interests of the trainee. Trainees will acquire core skills through three seminars in (1) critical appraisal of the developmental psychopathology literature; (2) formulation of research questions, grant writing, and project management ("research survival skills"); and (3) managing ethical issues in the conduct of research.