Child Psychiatry Research Education Program (C-PREP)

描述（由申请人提供）：儿童精神病学家研究教育计划（C-PREP）为精神病学受训者提供连续的教育和培训（医学预科到奖学金），以发展儿童精神病学的内科科学家。由于精神疾病儿童数量的增加以及缺乏训练有素的专业人员来解决科学关注干预和预防项目的需要，因此该计划是合理的。UTSWMC的精神病学部门扩大了成人住院医师培训计划，包括普通精神病学和成瘾研究方面的研究培训。然而，现有的成人项目并没有解决吸引医科学生、普通精神病学住院医生和儿童研究员选择儿童精神病学研究作为他们职业道路的需要。C-PREP旨在减少精神病学学员成为内科科学家所面临的障碍。为此，该项目将提供：1)早期识别潜在的儿童精神病学研究人员；2)通过在从医学预科到儿童奖学金阶段的多个培训阶段提供入职机会，利用和促进对儿童精神病学的兴趣；3)为同伴提供支持的培训研究人员的关键数量；4)与作为榜样并提供结构化指导的可用和可访问的导师建立联系。该方案将在三个迫切需要的领域提供培训：精神疾病的干预试验；2 .青少年双重诊断；临床神经科学研究，其中包括新技术，以确定儿童精神病理学的生物学基础。这笔资金将为2名医科预科学生、2名医科学生、2名普通精神病学住院医生和2名儿童精神病学研究员提供受保护的研究培训时间。由于我们优秀的师资队伍和现有的成人精神病学补充资助研究培训，UTSWMC精神病学部门处于激励和培养下一代儿童精神病学研究人员的理想位置。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Child-Psychiatrist Research Education Program (C-PREP) proposes education and training for a continuum of psychiatry trainees (pre-medical through fellowship) to develop physician scientists in child psychiatry. This program is justified by the crisis resulting from an increase in the numbers of psychiatrically ill children and the lack of trained professionals to address the need for scientific attention to intervention and prevention programs. The Department of Psychiatry at UTSWMC has expanded the adult residency training program to include research training in general psychiatry and addiction research. However the existing adult programs do not address the need to induce medical students, general psychiatry residents and child fellows to choose child psychiatry research as their career path. The C-PREP is designed to reduce the barriers faced by psychiatry trainees that prevent them from becoming physician scientists. To this end, the program will provide 1) early identification of potential child psychiatry researchers, 2) harnessing and promoting interest in child psychiatry through providing entry opportunities at multiple points in training from pre-medical to child fellowship stages, 3) a critical mass of researchers-in-training for peer support, and 4) linkage with available and accessible mentors who serve as role models and provide structured guidance. The program will provide training in three areas of acute need: 1. Intervention trials for psychiatric disorders, 2. dual diagnosis in adolescence, and 3. clinical neuroscience research, which includes new technology to identify the biological underpinnings of child psychopathology. This funding will provided protected time for research training for 2 pre-medical students, 2 medical students, 2 general psychiatry residents and 2 Child Psychiatry fellows. UTSWMC Department of Psychiatry is in an ideal position to stimulate and train the next generation of researchers in child psychiatry because of our exceptional faculty and existing complementary funded research training in adult psychiatry.