Multidisciplinary Schizophrenia Research Training

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份修改后的申请，申请马里兰州精神病学研究中心精神分裂症研究的多学科博士后培训计划。这个应用程序之前的标题是“精神分裂症：异质性和发展”。在这个应用程序中，我们描述了一个针对精神病学、心理学、实验室神经科学和药学研究员的培训计划，该计划涵盖了从健康服务研究和临床试验到使用动物和死后人体组织的实验室研究的精神分裂症研究。我们所有的研究员都有一些共同的培训经验，包括与MPRC和其他中心的高级科学家专门为受研者举行的许多小组会议，关于精神分裂症和相关方法问题的核心课程，以及参加MPRC教师的许多研讨会和其他科学活动。我们建议的培训改进包括：准备一份拨款提案，然后得到教员的反馈；对受训者的进步进行外部评估，重点关注他们的长期职业发展；分配临床和临床前导师；宣传节目的节目；从过去和现在的研究员那里得到更多的反馈。马里兰精神病学研究中心（MPRC）拥有nimh资助的干预研究中心，稳定的基础和临床教师队伍，以及许多具有竞争力的研究补助金，为奖学金培训项目提供了绝佳的环境。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a revised application for a multidisciplinary, postdoctoral training program in schizophrenia research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. This application was previously titled "Schizophrenia: Heterogeneity and Development." In this application, we describe a training program for fellows in psychiatry, psychology, laboratory neuroscience, and pharmacy in a program that spans schizophrenia research from health services research and clinical trials, to laboratory studies using animals and postmortem human tissue. All of our fellows share a number of common training experiences, including many small group meetings exclusively for trainees with senior scientists from the MPRC and other centers, a core curriculum on schizophrenia and related methodological issues, and participation in the many seminars and other scientific activities of the MPRC faculty. Proposed improvements in our training include: preparation of a grant proposal, followed by faculty feedback; an outside review of trainees' progress that will focus on their long-term career development; assignment of both clinical and preclinical mentors; a program for publicizing the program; and greater feedback from past and current fellows. The Maryland Psychiatric Research Center (MPRC) is an excellent setting for fellowship training program with the presence of an NIMH-funded Intervention Research Center, a stable cadre of accomplished basic and clinical faculty, and a number of competitive research grants.