Research Colloquium for Junior Investigators

本提案是为了在美国精神病学协会（APA）年度会议期间为初级研究人员建立一个研究研讨会。在美国精神病学协会（APA）研究培训委员会的行政指导下，在国家精神卫生研究所（NIMH）、国家药物滥用研究所（NIDA）、国家酒精滥用和酒精中毒研究所（NIAAA）和制药业的赞助下，这一年度活动在过去五年中每年举行一次。该提案的主要具体目标是确定当前和未来的高级精神病住院医师，研究人员和初级精神科医生（特别强调少数民族/少数民族和妇女），他们是成功研究事业的特别有前途的候选人；提供为期一天的密集、有指导的培训课程，让这些参与者在小组会议中展示他们当前或拟议的研究方案，并接受教师指导和同行反馈。第二个具体目标是鼓励正在考虑研究事业的个人，目前正在接受研究培训或开始研究职业生涯的研究人员继续这一职业道路；提供信息和确定资源，这将有助于开始研究人员寻求和获得外部资金，使他们能够启动成功的研究事业。一个为期一天的研讨会将在每年的星期天举行，这个星期天正好是生物精神病学学会会议结束和APA年会开始的时候。共有45名初级研究人员将被选中参加，他们将以五名参与者和两名教师为小组，在那里，受训者将提供15-20分钟的当前或拟议研究报告，还将被要求在中午的海报会议上展示海报，并将接受额外的教师指导。第一次研讨会将在2001年5月新奥尔良会议期间举行，并将在这次会议之后的四年APA年会上再次提出。

This proposal is for the establishment of a research colloquium for junior investigators held during the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). This annual event has taken place in each of the past five years under the sponsorship of the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and pharmaceutical industry sources, with administrative direction from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Committee on Research Training. The primary specific aims of this proposal are to identify current and future senior psychiatric residents, research fellows and junior faculty psychiatrists (with special emphasis on ethnic/racial minorities and women) who are especially promising candidates for successful research careers; provide a one-day intensive, mentored, training session that will allow these participants to present their current or proposed research protocols in small group sessions and to receive faculty mentoring and peer feedback. The secondary specific aims are to encourage individuals contemplating a research career, currently in research training or initiating a research career as beginning investigators to continue this career path; provide information and identify resources that will help beginning investigators to seek and obtain outside funding that will enable them to launch successful research careers. A one day workshop will be held annually on the Sunday that falls at the end of the Society for Biological Psychiatry meeting and at the beginning of the APA annual meeting. A total of 45 junior investigators will be selected to participate and will meet in small groups of five participants and two faculty, where the trainees will provide a 15-20 minute presentation of a current or proposed study and also will be required to present a poster during a noon poster session and will receive additional faculty mentoring. The first workshop will be held during the May 2001 meeting in New Orleans and will be presented again at the APA annual meetings during the next four years following this meeting.