New Mexico Mental Health Mentorship /Education Program

我们建议继续并加强新墨西哥州大学（UNM）心理健康服务研究的导师和教育计划（MEP）。该方案于1999年8月开始接受国家卫生研究所的资助。重点关注少数民族心理健康问题在初级保健环境中，特别是在心理健康结果的差异，MEP提供了一个密集的，为期一周的年度培训课程，介绍心理健康服务研究少数民族初级教师和研究生。该计划还加强了与优秀心理健康研究人员的持续导师关系，这些研究人员既是学员研究的顾问，也是他们职业发展的榜样。MEP的总体目标是：1）教学员在这一领域的基本研究方法，重点是如何编写提案和管理资助的提案; 2）向学员介绍精神卫生服务研究的重要最新发现，特别强调有关影响西南少数民族人口的精神卫生结果差异的研究; 3）在学员和研究导师之间建立网络; 4）帮助学员进行职业发展的各个方面; S）制作面向少数民族的心理健康服务研究课程，可输出到其他教育机构;以及6）每年启动一系列精神卫生服务研究培训课程。MEP的目标参与者包括少数民族初级教师，他们参加了NIMH资助的少数民族研究基础设施支持计划（M-RISP），UNM的其他少数民族教师，以及西南地区其他机构的少数民族学员。每名参加培训的学员都有一名在新墨西哥大学的导师和/或一名外部导师，在为期一周的监测和评价方案课程期间和下一年与他们一起工作。外部教师，谁包括优秀的少数民族心理健康服务研究人员能够作为榜样，教在MEP年会，然后作为持续的导师。联合国特派团的教员每周或每两周与当地受训人员会面。我们希望该研究所将继续发展重点为心理健康服务研究在新墨西哥州和西南地区，并成为一个全国公认的模式，培训少数民族教师在心理健康研究的接口与初级保健。

We propose to continue and to strengthen a Mentorship and Educational Program (MEP) in Mental Health Services Research at the University of New Mexico (UNM). This program began to receive NIMH funding in August 1999. Focusing on minority mental health issues in primary care settings, especially disparities in mental health outcomes, the MEP provides an intensive, one-week annual training session, which introduces mental health services research to minority junior faculty members and graduate students. The MEP also enhances ongoing mentorship relationships with outstanding mental health researchers who serve as both advisers for the trainees' research and as role models in their career development. The overall aims of the MEP are to: 1) teach trainees basic research methods in this field, with an emphasis on how to write proposals and manage funded proposals; 2) introduce trainees to important recent findings of mental health services research, with special emphasis on research concerning the disparities in mental health outcomes that affect minority populations of the Southwest; 3) establish networks among trainees and research mentors; 4) help trainees with various aspects of career development; S) produce a minority-oriented mental health services research curriculum that is exportable to other educational institutions; and 6) initiate an ongoing sequence of training sessions in mental health services research on an annual basis. Targeted participants for the MEP include the minority junior faculty members who have participated in the NIMH-funded Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program (M-RISP) at UNM, other minority faculty members at UNM, and minority trainees from other institutions in the Southwest region. Each participating trainee is matched with a mentor at UNM and/or an external mentor with whom to work during the one-week MEP session and during the following year. External faculty members, who include outstanding minority mental health services researchers able to serve as role models, teach at the MEP annual session and then act as ongoing mentors. UNM-based faculty meet with local trainees on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. We expect that the Institute will continue to develop a focus for mental health services research in New Mexico and the Southwest region and to emerge as a nationally recognized model for training of minority faculty members in mental health research at the interface with primary care.