Substance Abuse Intervention/Outcome Research Training

描述（由申请人提供）：我们项目的目的是培训博士后生物医学、行为、医疗保健和其他公共卫生科学家，从事药物使用障碍治疗和早期干预研究。一个总体目标是提高我们的学员所需的关键科学推理技能，以推进物质使用障碍的治疗研究。从我们的角度来看，这样的研究将受益于先进和充分发展的理论指导下的干预措施，使用多学科框架，包括生物，心理，社会和文化背景下发生的干预措施。虽然其他机构的培训计划可能涉及治疗/早期干预研究，这是这个博士后计划的主要使命。我们的培训方案的显著特点是：它是跨学科的;它不包含任何单一的意识形态或理论，涉及与药物滥用有关的功能障碍的性质;它在干预研究的每一个层次提供培训;它把预防、早期干预和治疗沿着为一个连续体;它为学员提供了高度个性化的机会，以促进物质相关功能障碍的知识基础，以及如何应对。研究员的培训期一般为两年，但我们有时会将培训期延长至三年。该计划每年接受两名新研究员。培训经验的结构是为了提供个性化的研究经验和培训，辅之以共同的学术课程，其中20%的研究员的培训时间分配。课程涵盖四个不同的领域：（1）统计/研究方法;（2）赠款和赠款写作;（3）精神病学研究中的伦理问题;（4）专门针对物质使用障碍的为期两年的系列研讨会。研究员的个人研究培训经验来自研究员制定并经其导师同意的计划。该计划主要侧重于临床试验培训，次要侧重于临床研究转化为服务研究。最近增加的神经生物学教学和研究经验扩大了我们的重点转化研究从基础到临床研究在这个即将到来的周期。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aim of our program is to train post-doctoral biomedical, behavioral, health care and other public health scientists in research on treatment and early interventions for substance use disorders. An overarching goal s to enhance the critical scientific reasoning skills needed for our trainees to advance treatment research in substance use disorders. From our perspective such research will benefit from interventions guided by sophisticated and fully developed theory using a multidisciplinary framework that includes the biological, psychological, social and cultural context in which interventions occur. While other institutional training programs may address treatment/early intervention research, this is the primary mission for this postdoctoral program. Distinctive features of our training program are: that it is interdisciplinary; that it embraces no single ideology or theory concerning the nature of dysfunctions related to substance abuse; that it provides training at each level of intervention research; that it views prevention, early intervention and treatment along a continuum; and that it provides trainees with highly individualized opportunities to contribute to the knowledge base of substance related dysfunction and what to do about it. The training program for fellows is typically two years but on occasion we extend this training period for three years. The program accepts two new fellows per year. The training experience is structured to provide individualized research experience and training, complemented by a common academic curriculum to which 20% of fellows' training time is allocated. Four distinct areas are covered in the curriculum: (1) statistics/research methodology; (2) grantsmanship and grant writing; (3) ethical issues in psychiatric research; and (4) a two-year series of seminars dedicated solely to substance use disorders. The fellow's individual research training experience emerges from a plan developed by the fellow and agreed to by his/her mentors. The program has a primary emphasis on training in clinical trials with a secondary emphasis on the translation of clinical research into services research. The recent addition of neurobiology didactic and research experiences expands our focus of translational research from basic to clinical research in this upcoming cycle.