Arizona CAM Research Training Program Grant (T32)

亚利桑那州补充和替代医学研究培训计划资助（ACAMRTP）是一项为期五年的T32提案，旨在为准备从事CAM和整合医学（IM）研究（临床结果，流行病学，卫生服务，方法学，机制）的研究人员建立严格的博士前和博士后跨学科教育计划。该方案的具体目标是： 1)从与CAM/IM方法相关的一系列主要学科中确定并招募合格的申请人作为研究员。 2)提供一个结构化和定向的培训计划奖学金，将包括明确的主要和次要的科学和学术目标，与教师导师定期建设性的互动，对研究员的工作进行深思熟虑的科学批评，并支持演示和提交结果供出版。 3)通过正式的课程和研讨会系列，会议，与科学导师的互动以及整合到综合计划中的研究项目，以跨学科的综合医学方法来预防和治疗疾病和健康。 ACAMRTP将涉及核心研讨会，实习研究经验，独立研究项目，并完成正式学位课程（MS，MPH，PhD）或临床研究证书课程（基于K30的两年制课程）的组合。培训方案将根据受训者的个人需要量身定制，需要两到三年时间完成。临床专业博士课程的学生也可以获得两到三个月的短期研究经验。一个团队指导的方法将涉及校园范围内的亚利桑那大学教师与相关的方法专业知识，CAM研究资金和/或经验，以及CAM从业者附属教师的专业知识，从社区资源在大图森和凤凰城地区。指导委员会将促进学员的综合教育和不同的T32教师之间的新的合作研究机会。项目主任带来了MD和博士培训和多年的跨学科研究经验，在CAM相关主题的培训计划。该计划协调员丰富了ACAMRTP作为执业自然疗法医生和MPH背景的丰富经验。完成ACAMRTP的学员将作为CAM/IM特定领域的学术研究人员进行重点准备，并熟悉设计科学合理的CAM/IM研究的广泛方法论问题和潜在工具。计划评估将检查研究生学员在学术生产力和对CAM/IM研究领域的影响方面的长期专业成功。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Arizona Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Training Program grant (ACAMRTP) is a five-year T32 proposal to establish a rigorous predoctoral and postdoctoral interdisciplinary educational program for investigators preparing for a career in CAM and integrative medicine (IM) research (clinical outcomes, epidemiology, health services, methodology, mechanisms). Specific Aims of the Program are: 1) To identify and recruit as fellows qualified applicants, drawn from a range of primary disciplines that are relevant to a CAM/IM approach. 2) To offer a structured and directed training program fellowship that will include clear primary and secondary scientific and academic goals, regular constructive interactions with faculty mentors, thoughtful scientific criticism of the work of the fellows, and support for presentations and submission of results for publication. 3) To ground fellows in an interdisciplinary integrative medicine approach to disease prevention and treatment and wellness through formal coursework and seminar series, conferences, interactions with scientific mentors, and research projects that are integrated into a comprehensive program. The ACAMRTP will involve a combination of core seminars, practicum research experiences, independent research projects, and completion of formal degree programs (MS, MPH, PhD) or a certificate program in clinical research (K30-based two-year program). Training programs will be tailored to individual trainee needs and will require two to three years for completion. A two- to three-month short-term research experience is also available for students in clinical professional doctoral programs. A team mentoring approach will involve campus-wide University of Arizona faculty with relevant methodological expertise, CAM research funding and/or experience, as well as CAM practitioner affiliate faculty expertise from community resource in the greater Tucson and Phoenix areas. The mentoring committees will facilitate integrative education for trainees and new collaborative research opportunities among the diverse T32 faculty. The Program Director brings both MD and PhD training and many years of interdisciplinary research experience in CAM-related topics to the training program. The Program Coordinator enriches the ACAMRTP with extensive experience as a practicing naturopathic physician and MPH background. Trainees who complete the ACAMRTP will have strong focused preparation as academic researchers in a specific area of CAM/IM as well as familiarity with the broad methodological issues in and potential tools for designing scientifically sound CAM/IM studies. Program evaluation will examine the long-term professional success of graduate trainees in terms of academic productivity and impact on the CAM/IM research field.