Training Geriatric Mental Health Services Researchers

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目为美国达特茅斯学院、康奈尔大学和华盛顿大学的老年心理健康服务资深研究人员合作开展的老年心理健康服务博士后培养计划（T32）。这个多站点服务研究培训合作社（SRTC）的目的是在五年的资助期内培养12名博士后，从事老年心理健康服务研究的学术生涯。该项目将招募在医学、心理学、社会工作、社会学、流行病学、公共卫生、卫生经济学或相关社会科学领域拥有博士学位的研究员（头四年每个地点每年一名），获得至少两年的奖学金。每位研究员的两年培训方案将包括以下内容：(a)指导老年心理健康服务研究培训，包括设计和完成一个研究项目；(b)由NIMH sbir资助的项目提供的跨站点研讨会、研究报告和培训课程，提供视频会议和基于互联网的通信和课程能力；(c)在每个地点进行正式课程学习，包括获得公共卫生硕士学位或评估性卫生科学和卫生服务研究理学硕士学位的机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposed multi-site postdoctoral training program (T32) in geriatric mental health services research is a collaborative project among senior geriatric mental health services researchers located at Dartmouth College, Cornell University and the University of Washington. This multi-site Services Research Training Cooperative (SRTC) is designed to train a total of 12 postdoctoral fellows over the five year funding period for academic careers in geriatric mental health services research. The program will recruit fellows (one per site per year for the first four years) with a completed doctoral degree in medicine, psychology, social work, sociology, epidemiology, public health, health economics, or a related-social science for a minimum of a two year fellowship. The two-year training program for each fellow will include the following components: (a) mentored geriatric mental health services research training including the design and completion of a research project; (b) cross-site seminars, research presentations, and training curriculum made possible by an NIMH SBIR-funded project providing videoconferencing and internet-based communication and curriculum capability; and (c) formal coursework at each site including the opportunity for a master's degree in public health or master's of science in evaluative health sciences and health services research. The proposed fellowship program will quickly and efficiently develop a new generation of early career investigators in the field of geriatric mental health services research, substantively adding to the capacity of a field that currently has few full-time researchers. This initiative responds to an urgent need for research aimed at informing the future systems of care that will be needed to address the mental health needs of a rapidly growing older population and the unique challenges related both to biological, psychological, and social changes associated with aging and to the societal approach to providing care for the aged.