TRAINING FUTURE MENTAL HEALTH CLINICAL RESEARCHERS

NIMH已经确定了值得关注的领域：(1)临床研究应用数量的下降和(2)未来训练有素的心理健康临床研究人员数量的短缺。在基础神经科学和方法学的快速发展将允许将研究成果转化为直接临床应用的时候，这些担忧尤其尖锐。目前提案的目的是通过在纽约大学正式设立和资助一个综合项目来解决这些问题，该项目旨在吸引、培训和留住一批选定的精神科住院医生，这些住院医生将临床研究作为他们的主要职业目标。计划中的项目将利用以下因素：(1)现有的精神病学和神经科学医科学生培训的优势；(2)现有的由斯坦利基金会和其他院系资源支持的精神健康临床研究的医科学生选修课程和暑期实习；(3)现有的精神病学住院医师培训计划的优势以及住院医师和院系领导贡献重要资源并与该培训计划协调的热情。(4)具有重要临床研究兴趣的优秀PGY1和PGY2住院医师群体；(5)持续增长的住院申请人群体；(6)坚实而多样化的教师队伍，具有成功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样化的临床人口。NIMH所要求的支持是在他们的PGY2和PGY3年之间，为每三位精神病学住院医师提供一年的专门研究时间。临床研究培训计划实际上将从住院医师招聘/面试阶段开始，并持续到完成PGY4年。这将允许将一年的NIMH支持转化为五年的临床研究培训，其中两年以上将用于全职研究活动。预计学员将在最后一个培训年度的早期提交申请，以获得同行评审的资助，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.