Clinical Addiction Research and Education Program

描述(由申请人提供)：为了回应NIDA申请支持“药物滥用和成瘾研究教育补助金”的申请，本申请寻求资金，以继续、改进和扩大阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦医学院(AECOM)及其大学医院蒙特菲奥里医学中心的临床成瘾研究和教育(CARE)计划的成就。CARE计划的核心是2002年开始的，是一个博士后奖学金计划，面向对药物滥用研究和临床实践感兴趣的医生。CARE计划的总部设在AECOM的医学系，并从AECOM的流行病学和人口健康系、精神病学和行为科学系、家庭和社会医学系以及其他三个纽约市机构--纽约医学院城市流行病学研究中心(NYAM)、国家发展与研究机构(NDRI)特殊人口研究所(NDRI)和康奈尔大学威尔医学院丙型肝炎研究中心--吸收了更多由NIDA资助的研究导师。除了提供必要的临床研究培训，为医生作为药物滥用研究人员的独立职业做准备，CARE计划教职员工还与蒙蒂菲奥里的主要教育领导人合作，加强对内科和家庭医学住院医生和AECOM医学生的循证药物滥用培训。CARE计划在其头4年的运营中非常成功，此次竞争性续签将建立在这一成功的基础上。这一计划竞争性更新的具体目标是：1.继续、改进和扩大CARE奖学金计划的成就，这是一项创新的研究密集型奖学金计划，面向已完成内科、家庭医学或精神病学住院医师资格并正在寻找将药物滥用研究和临床工作与吸毒者相结合的职业的医生。2.继续、改进和扩大CARE教育计划的范围，这是一项针对蒙特菲奥里医学中心住院医生和阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦医学院学生的强化住院和门诊药物滥用培训计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In response to NIDA's request for applications to support "Research Education Grants in Drug Abuse and Addiction," this application seeks funding to continue, improve, and expand the accomplishments of the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Program at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) and its University Hospital, Montefiore Medical Center. The centerpiece of the CARE Program, which began in 2002, is a post-doctoral fellowship program for physicians interested in careers in drug abuse research and clinical practice. The CARE Program is based in AECOM's Department of Medicine, and draws additional NIDA-funded research mentors from AECOM's Departments of Epidemiology & Population Health, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, and Family & Social Medicine, as well as from 3 other New York City institutions: the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies at the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), the Institute for Special Populations Research at the National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI), and the Center for the Study of Hepatitis C at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. In addition to providing the clinical research training necessary to prepare physicians for independent careers as drug abuse researchers, CARE Program faculty collaborate with key educational leaders at Montefiore to enhance evidence-based substance abuse training for residents in Internal and Family Medicine, and for AECOM medical students. The CARE Program has been highly successful in its first 4 years of operation, and this competitive renewal will build on that success. The specific aims for the competitive renewal of this program are: 1. To continue, improve, and expand the accomplishments of the CARE Fellowship Program, an innovative research-intensive fellowship program for physicians who have completed residencies in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, or Psychiatry and are seeking careers that combine drug abuse research and clinical work with drug users. 2. To continue, improve, and expand the scope of the CARE Educational Program, an enhanced inpatient and outpatient substance abuse training program for residents at Montefiore Medical Center and students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.