TRAINING FUTURE GENERATIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCHERS

培训下一代心理健康研究人员

• 批准号: 6392660
• 负责人: CHARLES F. REYNOLDS
• 金额: $ 25.78万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-23 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6392660
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; curriculum; education evaluation /planning; health services research tag; mental health personnel; minority health professional; postgraduate education; public health; training; workshop

This R25 application is organized around two overall themes-building bridges between basic and clinical research and building bridges between science and clinical service. We plan to develop further the infrastructure needed to conduct clinical research training within the frameworks of both translational and public health models. A key premise of our program is the importance of forging links between neuroscience, neuroimaging, and genetics and their applications to interventions with psychiatric and physical illnesses throughout the lifespan. We also plan to build bridges between the tradition we have established of treatment outcome research done in controlled clinical trials and the current priority accorded by NIMH to intervention research with an increased public health orientation. Our specific aims include: (1) development of a Junior Faculty Scholars Program that will provide 25 percent salary support for two years to faculty members selected competitively by the Executive Committee of our Research Education and Training Center (RETC). The short-term goal is to facilitate the development of K-award career development applications by these faculty; the long-term goal is to ensure their success as independent investigators doing clinical research; (2) development of a curriculum with two tracks-one for translational research and a second for intervention research. Both tracks will involve one mini-course during the academic year (10 sessions) and two intensive summer workshops (one week each); (3) provision of four awards for pilot research studies by Junior Faculty Scholars collecting initial data in support of their K-award applications; and (4) hiring of one full-time statistician who will provide support to the Junior Faculty Scholars. Issues regarding recruitment of underrepresented minorities and women are addressed, and specific criteria for evaluating the success of the program (e.g., an increase in funded early career development awards and mid-career patient-oriented research awards) are also described.

该 R25 应用程序围绕两个总体主题进行组织：在基础研究和临床研究之间建立桥梁，以及在科学和临床服务之间建立桥梁。 我们计划进一步开发在转化和公共卫生模型框架内进行临床研究培训所需的基础设施。 我们计划的一个关键前提是在神经科学、神经影像学和遗传学之间建立联系的重要性及其在整个生命周期的精神和身体疾病干预中的应用。 我们还计划在对照临床试验中进行的治疗结果研究的传统与 NIMH 目前优先考虑的以增强公共卫生为导向的干预研究之间建立桥梁。 我们的具体目标包括：(1) 制定初级教师学者计划，为我们的研究教育和培训中心 (RETC) 执行委员会竞争性选拔的教师提供两年 25% 的工资支持。 短期目标是促进这些教师开发K-award职业发展申请；长期目标是确保他们作为独立研究者进行临床研究取得成功； （2）开发双轨课程——一是转化研究，二是干预研究。这两个轨道都将涉及学年期间的一门迷你课程（10 节课）和两门夏季强化研讨会（每门一周）； (3) 为初级教师学者提供四个试点研究奖，收集初步数据以支持其 K 奖申请； (4) 聘请一名全职统计学家，为初级教师学者提供支持。 解决了有关招募代表性不足的少数族裔和妇女的问题，并描述了评估该计划成功的具体标准（例如，增加资助的早期职业发展奖和职业中期以患者为导向的研究奖）。