TRAINING FUTURE MENTAL HEALTH CLINICAL RESEARCHERS

NIMH已将(1)临床研究申请数量下降和(2)受过培训的心理健康临床研究人员数量未来短缺确定为令人担忧的领域。在基础神经科学和方法学的快速进步将使研究成果转化为直接临床应用的时候，这些担忧尤其令人痛心。本提案的目的是通过在纽约大学正式确定并资助一项综合计划来解决这些问题，该计划旨在吸引、培训和留住一批精选的精神科住院医生，这些住院医生已将临床研究确定为他们的主要职业目标。计划中的计划将利用以下优势：(1)精神病学和神经科学方面医学生培训的现有优势，(2)由斯坦利基金会和其他部门资源支持的精神健康临床研究方面现有的医学生选修课和暑期实习，(3)精神病学住院医师培训计划的现有优势，以及住院医师和科室领导层贡献大量资源并将这些资源与培训计划协调的热情，(4)具有重大临床研究兴趣的现有PGY1和PGY2住院医生的杰出群体，(5)住院医师申请者池中持续和不断增长的实力，和(6)扎实多样的教师队伍，有成功的临床研究培训的承诺和记录，优秀的物理植物资源和广泛的研究资金，丰富的教学计划，以及几乎无限的种族和社会经济多元化的临床人口。NIMH所要求的支持是为三名精神病学住院医生在PGY2和PGY3之间的每一位住院医生提供一年的完全专门的研究时间。临床研究培训计划实际上将从住院医师招募/面试阶段开始，一直持续到PGY4年结束。这将允许将一年的NIMH支持用于五年的临床研究培训，其中两年以上将专门用于全职研究活动。预计在最后培训年度初期，受训人员将提交同行审查的资金申请，以支持进一步的职业发展和个人研究项目。

The NIMH has identified as areas of concern (1) a decline in numbers of clinical research applications and (2) a future shortfall in numbers of trained mental health clinical researchers. These concerns are particularly poignant at a time when rapid advances in basic neuroscience and methodology will permit translation of research findings into direct clinical application. The objective of the present proposal is to address these concerns by formalizing and funding an integrated program at New York University to attract, train and retain a select group of psychiatric residents who have identified clinical research as their primary career goal. The planned program will capitalize on the following: (1) existing strengths in medical student training in psychiatry and the neurosciences, (2) existing medical student electives and summer internships in mental health clinical research supported by the Stanley Foundation and by other departmental resources, (3) existing strengths in the Residency Training Program in Psychiatry and the enthusiasm of Residency and Departmental leadership to contribute significant resources and to coordinate these with this training program, (4) an outstanding group of present PGY1 and PGY2 residents with significant clinical research interests, (5) continued and growing strength in the resident applicant pool, and (6) a solid and varied faculty with a commitment and track record of successful clinical research training, excellent physical plant resources and broad research funding, a rich didactic program, and an almost unlimited ethnically and socio- economically diverse clinical population. The NIMH support requested is to fund a year of fully dedicated research time for each of three psychiatry residents to occur in between their PGY2 and PGY3 years. The clinical research training program will in fact begin during the residency recruitment/interviewing stage, and continue through completion of the PGY4 year. This will permit a single year of NIMH support to be leveraged into five years of clinical research training, more than two of which will be devoted to full time research activities. By early in the final training year trainees will be expected to submit applications for peer reviewed funding to support further career development and individual research projects.