Postdoctoral Training in Geriatric Psychiatry Research

老年精神病学研究博士后培训

• 批准号: 7101769
• 负责人: JEFFREY M LYNESS
• 金额: $ 17.41万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-01 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7101769
• 关键词: Postdoctoral; Training; Geriatric; Psychiatry; Research

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application presents an application for three 3-year fellowship slots to support postdoctoral training in geriatric psychiatry, psychology, and related areas of mental health research, via a new Institutional National Research Service Award (T32). We are creating this geriatrics-specific training program after the intentional broadening of our Department's longstanding NIMH-funded T32 in the 1990s, when we felt that there were too few mentors in the geriatric mentoring group. In recent years, however, our geriatrics research programs and their collaborative resources have continued to grow substantially, thus providing a unique foundation for the development of a translational research focus. Our explicit goal is to train the next generations of physicians and other doctoral trained scientists as future investigators conducting translational (i.e., "bench to bedside" and "clinical research setting to real world practice") interventions and prevention research, primarily related to depression and dementia in later life. Hallmarks of our approach include access to a wide range of subject populations (consistent with the "real world" component of translational research), and a Departmental and University-wide culture placing high values on mentored career development and on multidisciplinary clinical, educational, and research collaborations. Core areas of skill development include: geriatric psychopathology, research design and methods (particularly as they relate to prevention and intervention research), biostatistics, grant writing and writing for publication, and the ethics of research. There are seven (7) mid-career and senior-level faculty members serving as primary Mentors for the proposed fellowship slots, and additional Preceptors and Resource Faculty. Throughout the past 15 years, our Department has recruited highly qualified candidates to our postdoctoral training programs, and our trainees have gone on to successful academic careers as demonstrated through their publications, their successfully funded grant applications, and their promotions. The proposed training is based on the establishment of a committed mentor-trainee relationship, the formulation of individually tailored programs that involve fellows in current research and support the development of their own protocols, and formal didactics-based learning including both required and "selective" courses, seminars, and research meetings. Such training addresses critical "pipeline" shortages in geriatric mental health research.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请提出了三个3年奖学金名额的申请，以支持在老年精神病学，心理学和心理健康研究的相关领域的博士后培训，通过一个新的机构国家研究服务奖（T32）。在20世纪90年代有意扩大我们部门长期以来由NIMH资助的T32之后，我们正在创建这个老年人特定的培训计划，当时我们觉得老年人指导小组中的导师太少了。然而，近年来，我们的老年医学研究项目及其合作资源继续大幅增长，从而为转化研究重点的发展提供了独特的基础。我们的明确目标是培养下一代医生和其他受过博士培训的科学家作为未来的研究人员进行翻译（即，“从工作台到床边”和“临床研究设置到真实的世界实践”）干预和预防研究，主要与晚年的抑郁和痴呆有关。我们的方法的特点包括获得广泛的受试者人群（与转化研究的“真实的世界”组成部分一致），以及部门和大学范围内的文化，高度重视指导职业发展和多学科临床，教育和研究合作。技能发展的核心领域包括：老年精神病理学，研究设计和方法（特别是当它们涉及到预防和干预研究），生物统计学，赠款写作和写作出版，以及研究的道德。有七（7）职业生涯中期和高级教师担任拟议的奖学金名额的主要导师，以及额外的Preceptors和资源教师。在过去的15年中，我们的部门已经招募了高素质的候选人到我们的博士后培训计划，我们的学员已经通过他们的出版物，他们成功资助的赠款申请，和他们的晋升证明了成功的学术生涯。拟议的培训是基于建立一个承诺的导师-学员关系，制定个性化的方案，涉及研究员在当前的研究，并支持自己的协议的发展，和正式的教学为基础的学习，包括要求和“选择性”的课程，研讨会和研究会议。这种培训解决了老年心理健康研究中关键的“管道”短缺问题。