Research Track Residency Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：这是R25培训补助金的竞争性更新申请，支持一个独特的，为期五年的研究跟踪计划。研究跟踪嵌入在现有的，非常成功的住院医师项目在精神病学，马里兰大学医学院。该计划的目标是招募有才华的医学毕业生进入住院医师研究跟踪计划，并提供广泛的研究培训，在他们扩大住院医师培训的过程中，在长期指导下进行实际研究的机会。这将为有才华的医学毕业生提供工具，使他们在早期训练中成为精神疾病方面独立和富有成效的研究者。培训有三个组成部分：(i)生物统计学、研究设计和神经科学的正式课程；（二）参加导师实验室的实验；（iii）在导师的指导下启动一个独立的项目，并获得竞争性试点项目基金的支持。这一培训计划的背景是一个成熟的、学术性的精神科，它拥有一个活跃的联邦政府资助的研究组合，拥有两个NIMH支持的中心，高级干预和服务研究中心（ACISR）和精神健康服务研究中心（CMHSR），一个VA精神疾病研究、教育和临床中心（MIRECC），并拥有一个充满活力的基础神经科学中心。该部在训练精神分裂症和其他精神疾病方面富有成效的调查人员方面有着良好的记录。在之前的资助基础上，研究跟踪计划现在已经建立了一个杰出的记录，大多数毕业生继续学术生涯，30篇出版物主要由学员撰写，并成功地获得了学员或毕业生的早期校外资助。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a competitive renewal application of an R25 training grant supporting a unique, five year Research Track Program. The Research Track is embedded in an existing, highly successful residency program at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine. The goals of the program are to recruit talented medical graduates into the Residency Research Track Program, and provide extensive research training, opportunities to conduct hands on research with long-term mentorship during the course of their expanded residency training. This will provide tools to talented medical graduates early in their training to become independent and productive investigators in mental illness. The training has three components: (i) formal courses in biostatistics, research design, and neuroscience; (ii) participation in the conduct of experiments in the mentor's laboratory; and (iii) initiation of an independent project with the mentor's guidance, and support from competitive Pilot Projects Funds. The setting for this proposed training is a mature, academic Psychiatric Department which has an active federally funded research portfolio, hosts two NIMH supported centers, the Advanced Centers for Interventions and Services Research (ACISR) and the Center for Mental Health Services Research (CMHSR), a VA Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), and has a vibrant basic neuroscience presence. The Department has an excellent track record of training productive investigators in schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. Based on the previous funding, the Research Track Program has now established an outstanding track record with most graduates continuing with academic careers, 30 publications most first authored by the trainees, and success with early extramural funding by the trainees or graduates.