Training in Complementary & Alternative Medical Research

摘要(由申请人提供)：患者对广谱的利用 补充和替代医学(CAM)疗法的比例最高 这是该国近代史上最高的水平，而且还在继续增加。然而， 缺乏提供准确信息的充分研究 阐明并验证CAM疗法的有效性、经济性和安全性。 这反过来又延续了患者和医生对CAM的怀疑 和研究人员，这对经济和经济都有深远的影响 我们的国家医疗保健系统的有效性。一个成功的医疗系统 为患者和医生提供了从最大的 可能的治疗性和预防性医疗保健方案 已被证明既有医学效果又有成本效益的药物。至 继续朝着这样一个系统前进，至关重要的是 全面的CAM治疗方案需要得到科学的验证。这将是 最快、最高效地开展跨学科和 由受过培训的科学家进行的合作研究工作 严谨的研究方法和计算机辅助教学。 巴斯泰尔大学，国家？领先的CAM培训机构，已启动 这项提议是为了让科学家为从事研究工作做好准备 和CAM领域的临床研究人员。在五年的时间里，这 该计划将培训8名博士后研究员(4名ND，2名博士和2名MD)，每人 为期三年，外加30名短期博士后 各就各位。培训机会来自18名教职员工， 代表五个杰出的研究和教育机构 华盛顿州。我们已经召集了具有公认的专业知识的导师 他们的领域，具有足够不同的背景，提供了广泛的 培训经验，并对CAM的有效性有共同的兴趣 癌症和癌症相关疼痛的治疗。我们相信合并后的 这些个人的专门知识和承诺，在 西雅图一流的研究环境创造了一个独特的机会 成功培养能够带来传统研究成果的科学家 方法对CAM相关研究课题进行研究。

ABSTRACT (Provided by the applicant): Patient utilization of a broad spectrum of Complementary and alternative Medical (CAM) therapies is at the highest level in recent history of this country and continues to increase. However, there is a lack of adequate research providing accurate information to illuminate and validate the efficacy, economy, and safety of CAM therapies. This in turns perpetuates a skepticism about CAM, held by patients, physicians and researchers, which has profound consequences both on the economics and effectiveness of our national health care system. A successful medical system provides patients and physicians with the ability to choose from the largest possible armamentarium of therapeutic and preventative health care regimens that have been proven to be both medically efficacious and cost effective. To continued to move toward such a system, it is vitally important that the panoply of CAM therapeutic regimens be validated scientifically. This will proceed most quickly and efficiently with an interdisciplinary and collaborative research effort carried out by scientists trained both in rigorous research methodology and in CAM. Bastyr University, the nations? leading CAM training institution, has initiated this proposal in order to prepare scientist for careers as research scholars and clinical investigators in the field of CAM. Over a five-year period, this program will train 8 postdoctoral (4 ND, 2 PhD and 2 MD) fellows, each for a period of three years, plus thirty predoctoral students in short term positions. Training opportunities are available from 18 faculty members, representing five preeminent research and educational institutions in Washington State. We have assembled mentors with acknowledged expertise in their fields, with divergent enough backgrounds to provide a breadth of training experiences, and with a common interes in the efficacy of CAM in the treatment of cancer and cancer-related pain. We believe that the combined expertise and commitment of these individuals, in the context of the superlative research environment in Seattle creates a unique opportunity to successfully train scientists who will be able to bring traditional research methods to bear upon CAM related research topics.