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)建议对连续的精神病学实习生(医学预科通过奖学金)进行教育和培训，以培养儿童精神病学方面的内科科学家。由于患有精神疾病的儿童数量增加以及缺乏训练有素的专业人员来满足对干预和预防方案的科学关注的需要而导致的危机，该方案是合理的。UTSWMC精神病学系扩大了成人住院医师培训计划，将普通精神病学和成瘾研究方面的研究培训包括在内。然而，现有的成人方案没有解决需要引导医学生、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的职业道路的需要。C-prep旨在减少精神病学实习生面临的阻碍他们成为内科科学家的障碍。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来利用和促进对儿童精神病学的兴趣，3)关键的培训中的研究人员的同伴支持，以及4)与可获得的、可获得的导师的联系，这些导师充当榜样并提供结构化的指导。该计划将在三个迫切需要的领域提供培训：1.精神障碍的干预试验；2.青春期双重诊断；3.临床神经科学研究，其中包括识别儿童精神病理学生物学基础的新技术。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。UTSWMC精神病学系是激励和培训下一代儿童精神病学研究人员的理想位置，因为我们拥有出色的教职员工和现有的成人精神病学补充资助的研究培训。

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.