Fellowship in Geriatric Mental Health

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份为期5年的加州大学圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）老年心理健康T-32奖学金计划续签申请。随着人口老龄化，对老年心理健康研究领导者的需求将继续增加。在过去的10年里，我们的T-32计划共招收了50名学员，包括8名博士预科生和9名医学生，以及33名博士后研究员。这50名研究员中有16名仍在接受培训。剩下的34名学员中有28名（82%）不再参加T-32计划，但仍在继续全职学术活动。大多数受训人员发表了多篇同行评审的手稿。56%的受训者是妇女，30%来自少数民族群体。T-32项目是加州大学圣地亚哥分校老年精神病学分部内一个更大的研究培训项目的一部分。T-32项目隶属于NIMH资助的干预和服务研究高级中心，该中心有一个独特的生物伦理学单位，为伦理问题的研究提供教育和咨询。我们的学员获得了7个NIMH职业发展（K）奖，8个NARSAD青年研究员奖，6个NIMH博士后少数民族或残疾补充，4个NIMH少数民族博士前奖，以及其他几个同行评审的竞争性赠款。这一更新申请建议支持八个博士后和三个博士前奖学金职位。一个额外的博士前奖学金名额将被划分为支持四名医学生每年在夏季培训计划。我们的研究奖学金计划的目标是培养一批年轻院士，他们将从事与老年心理健康相关的研究，反过来，他们将培养未来的老年心理健康领导者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application for a 5-year renewal of the T-32 Fellowship Program in Geriatric Mental Health at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). As the population ages, the demand for leaders in geriatric mental health research will continue to increase. Over the last 10 years, our T-32 program has recruited a total of 50 trainees including 8 predoctoral and 9 medical students, and 33 postdoctoral Fellows. 16 of these 50 Fellows are still in training. 28 of the remaining 34 trainees (82%), who are no longer in the T-32 program, are still continuing full-time academic activities. Most trainees have published multiple peer-reviewed manuscripts. 56% of all the trainees have been women and 30% have come from ethnic minority groups. The T-32 program is a part of a larger research training program within the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry at UCSD. The T-32 Program is affiliated with an NIMH-funded Advanced Center for Interventions and Services Research, which has a distinct Bioethics Unit that provides education and consultation for research in ethical issues. Our trainees have obtained 7 NIMH Career Development (K) Awards, 8 NARSAD Young Investigator Awards, 6 NIMH Postdoctoral Minority or Disability Supplements, 4 NIMH Minority Predoctoral Awards, and several other peer-reviewed competitive grants. This renewal application proposes to support eight postdoctoral and three predoctoral Fellowship positions. One additional predoctoral Fellowship slot will be divided to support four medical students in a summer training program annually. It is the goal of our Research Fellowship program to produce a cadre of young academicians who will perform research related to geriatric mental health and who will, in turn, train future leaders in geriatric mental health.