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）提出了精神病学学员（通过奖学金的医疗前）的连续教育和培训，以发展儿童精神病学的医生科学家。这一方案是合理的，因为患有精神病的儿童人数增加，缺乏训练有素的专业人员来解决对干预和预防方案的科学关注。UTSWMC的精神病学系扩大了成人住院医师培训计划，包括一般精神病学和成瘾研究的研究培训。然而，现有的成人项目并没有解决需要诱导医学生，一般精神病学居民和儿童研究员选择儿童精神病学研究作为他们的职业道路。C-PREP旨在减少精神病学学员所面临的障碍，阻止他们成为医生科学家。为此，该计划将提供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点提供进入机会，利用和促进对儿童精神病学的兴趣，3）研究人员的临界质量在培训中的同行支持，（4）与可利用的导师建立联系，他们作为榜样，提供结构化的指导。该计划将在三个急需领域提供培训：1。精神疾病的干预试验，2。青春期的双重诊断，以及3.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基础。这笔资金将为2名医学预科生、2名医学生、2名普通精神病学住院医师和2名儿童精神病学研究员提供受保护的研究培训时间。UTSWMC精神病学系是一个理想的位置，以刺激和培训儿童精神病学的下一代研究人员，因为我们的特殊教师和现有的补充资助的研究培训成人精神病学。

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.