CLINICAL RESEARCH TRAINING IN CHILD PSYCHIATRY

本次申请是5T32MH18951-07的竞争性更新，5T32MH18951-07是一个博士后临床研究培训项目，面向儿童精神病学家、儿童心理学家和其他相关领域的专业博士研究生。要求为4名住院医师后儿童精神病学家、4名博士后儿童心理学家和4名医科学生提供夏季研究选修课的支助。在暑期研究体验中，医学生将与培训教师的研究导师合作，从项目阅读到可出版的产品，以激发对儿童精神病学研究的更大兴趣。博士后培训计划帮助学员提出原创和深刻的研究问题，并获得必要的技术专业知识，为他们在以下至少一个领域的职业生涯和独立调查人员做准备：(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)发育精神病理学发病和过程中的心理和心理生物学因素；以及(4)与发展精神病理学有关的基础科学研究(如遗传学、发育神经科学)。一个拥有长期和成功的研究和研究培训历史的多学科教员小组参与了该计划，并在上述所有领域拥有专业知识。该计划最重要的方面是将受训者与学术上成功的导师配对，后者将让受训者参与现有项目，监督他们制定一份批判性审查论文和相关协议，反映该领域的重大进步，并将导致独立研究和资金。将为每个学员开发一个单独定制的教学研究课程，以确保获得与学员研究兴趣相关的研究设计、统计和内容领域的核心知识。受训者将通过三个研讨会获得核心技能：(1)对发展精神病理学文献的批判性评估；(2)研究问题的制定、拨款申请和项目管理(“研究生存技能”)；以及(3)在研究过程中管理伦理问题。

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.