Enhancing Alcohol Science Focus: AMERSA National Meeting

描述(由申请者提供)：药物滥用医学教育和研究协会(AMERSA)年度全国会议是讲授酒精和其他毒品问题的健康专业教育工作者的主要会议。AMERSA的主要使命有两个：培养了解酒精和其他毒品问题的卫生专业干部、教育工作者和研究人员，他们能够有效地将研究转化为实践，并鼓励发展专注于酒精和其他毒品问题的教育项目。一年一度的会议为医生、护士、社会工作者和其他卫生专业人员提供了增加他们对科学进步和专注于酒精和其他毒品问题的新教育项目的知识的机会。这项提议建立在AMERSA 26年来成功举办年度全国会议的历史基础上。拟议的5年项目将通过以下方式加强2004-2008年举行的国家会议的高质量和多样性：(1)提供费用以吸引与酒精有关的研究领域的杰出全体发言者，(2)向广泛的卫生专业教育工作者和研究人员交流和传播与酒精有关的研究成果；(3)在听众中提高对可能损害与酒精有关的研究质量的方法问题的认识；以及(4)更积极地接触学术卫生专业人员、教育工作者、研究人员和从业人员，他们与服务不足和与酒精相关的高危人群合作，特别是拉美裔、非裔美国人和女性。作为药物滥用领域公认的领导者，非政府组织和非政府组织开展了几项由NIAAA和NIDA资助的研究，因此完全有资格指导这一项目。他们将与一个跨学科咨询委员会合作，该委员会拥有将研究转化为实践的专业知识，为服务不足的人群提供服务，并教导卫生专业人员根据不同的患者群体调整临床方法。该项目的其他人员在AMERSA中担任关键角色，具有实施拟议活动所需的组织中心地位。由于一年一度的全国会议吸引了来自不同医疗和其他保健专业的大量与会者，因此对临床培训和实践的影响将是巨大的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Annual National Conference of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) is the major meeting for health professional educators who teach about alcohol and other drug problems. AMERSA's primary mission is twofold: to develop cadres of health professions educators and researchers knowledgeable about alcohol and other drug issues who are effective in transferring research to practice, and to encourage the development of educational programs focused on alcohol and other drug issues. The annual meeting gives physicians, nurses, social workers, and other health professionals the opportunity to increase their knowledge of scientific advances and new educational programs focused on alcohol and other drug issues. This proposal builds on AMERSA's 26-year history of successful annual national conferences. The proposed 5-year project will strengthen the high quality and diversity of the national meetings, to be held 2004-2008, by (1) providing fees to attract plenary speakers who are preeminent in the area of alcohol-related research, (2) exchanging and disseminating alcohol related research findings to a broad range of health professions educators and researchers; (3) creating greater awareness in this audience of methodological problems that can vitiate the quality of alcohol-related research; and (4) reaching out more actively to involve academic health professions educators, researchers and practitioners who work with underserved and high-risk populations experiencing alcohol-related problems, specifically, Latinos, African Americans, and women. The PI and Co-PI, recognized leaders in the substance abuse field, have conducted several NIAAA and NIDA-funded studies and are thus well qualified to direct this project. They will work with an interdisciplinary Advisory Committee that has expertise in translating research into practice, providing services to underserved populations, and teaching health professionals to adapt clinical methods to diverse patient groups. Other personnel for this project hold key roles in AMERSA with the organizational centrality necessary to implement proposed activities. Since the Annual National Conference draws a large number of participants from a variety of medical and other healthcare professions, the impact on clinical training and practice will be substantial.