Research Training: Complementary & Integrative Medicine

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案是针对第一个NIH补充和综合医学治疗研究培训计划的五年延续。这个为期三年的计划准备一般内科医生成功和有益的职业生涯作为学术研究教师和教育工作者。该计划是基于在哈佛医学院的补充和综合医学疗法的研究和教育部门，一个跨机构的计划，以促进整个哈佛教学医院在这一新兴领域的研究和教育的发展。合格的受训者可获得理学硕士或公共卫生硕士学位。通过在哈佛公共卫生学院注册，在奖学金的前两年获得学位。该计划包括临床有效性计划，流行病学，生物统计学，卫生服务研究和决策科学的密集夏季核心课程，所有课程都是专门为医生开发的。培训补助金为暑期课程以及整个学位课程的学费和费用提供部分支持。受训人员的大部分时间都用于自己的研究。每个人都使用在课堂上学到的技能，在经验丰富的教师导师的指导下，开发，进行和分析至少两项关于补充医学的原始调查。研究重点是补充医学的风险和益处，作用机制，以及使用CAM疗法，使用结果研究，流行病学，卫生服务研究和临床试验的方法。研究员参加每周一次的全项目研究研讨会，并参加旨在提供补充医学领域内的教学技能和内容的教育课程。研究员也有很多机会作为教师参与哈佛医学院的本科课程和该司赞助的继续医学教育计划的补充医学领域。研究员通过培训课程和在附属初级保健综合护理诊所和将于2003年秋末在HMS附属医院之一开设的该司综合护理中心应用技能，发展综合医学的临床技能。每个研究员的发展是由一个主要的导师，导师，并在哈佛公共卫生学院顾问监督。导师将由哈佛医学院的全科医学和综合医学系提供。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is for the five-year continuation of the first NIH research training program in complementary and integrative medical therapies. This three year program prepares general internists for successful and rewarding careers as academic research faculty and educators. The program is based within the Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies at Harvard Medical School, an inter-institutional program set up to facilitate the development of research and education in this emerging field across the Harvard teaching hospitals. Qualified trainees earn an M.Sc. or M.P.H. degree over the course of the first two years of fellowship through enrollment at the Harvard School of Public Health. This program includes the Program in Clinical Effectiveness, an intensive summer core curriculum in epidemiology, biostatistics, health services research, and decision sciences, all courses developed specifically for physicians. The training grant provides partial support for tuition and fees for the summer program as well as the entire degree program. Much of the trainees' time is devoted to their own research. Each uses skills learned in the classroom to develop, conduct and analyze at least two original investigations on complementary medicine under the direction of an experienced faculty preceptor. Research focuses on the risks and benefits of complementary medicine, mechanisms of action, and use of CAM therapies using methods of outcomes research, epidemiology, health services research and clinical trials. Fellows attend weekly program-wide research seminars and participate in an educational curriculum designed to provide teaching skills and content within the area of complementary medicine. Fellows also have many opportunities to participate as teachers in the field of complementary medicine in undergraduate courses at Harvard Medical School and continuing medical education programs sponsored by the Division. Fellows develop clinical skills in integrative medicine through training courses and application of skills in an affiliated primary care integrative care clinic and the Division's integrated care center to be opened in one of the HMS affiliated hospitals in late Fall 2003. Each fellow's development is supervised by a principal mentor, preceptors, and an advisor at the Harvard School of Public Health. Mentorship will be provided by faculty in general medicine and integrative medicine at Harvard Medical School.