Post-Doctoral Training in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research

该项目始于1995年，提供行为、生物行为和 关于智力和发育障碍(IDD)的翻译研究，重点是社会-- 情感、沟通和家庭过程。学员参加为期两年的研究项目 有IDD、儿童发育、人类行为、神经科学或相关学科的经验和博士学位 流行病学。该项目位于威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校，并完全融入该校 韦斯曼中心，其中包括由NICHD资助的P30智力和发育障碍患者 研究中心。15名教职员工作为导师参加，所有韦斯曼中心的调查人员都是由NIH资助的 研究项目。该项目目前每年资助四名博士后实习生。我们要求 每年资助六名实习生。 我们的目标是培养进行高质量、 关于IDD的程序性、可资助的行为、生物行为和翻译研究。该计划有 四个关键要素：(A)协调和监测个性化培训的机制；(B)强化培训 研究培训经验；(C)核心课程；和(D)要求培训产生良好的- 及时定义产品。我们加强了翻译研究和公共卫生 通过对教员的关键增加和扩展生物行为方面的计划维度 通过增加核心课程的研讨会。 近30名学员已完成该项目。大多数人在研究型大学担任教职。 最早的队列中的许多成员现在是终身教职，已经获得了外部研究资金，搬到了 领导职位，广泛发表，并对IDD有持久的承诺。较新的队列 都处于相似的轨迹上。四名受训人员是代表性不足的族裔/种族群体的成员。

The program began in 1995 and provides interdisciplinary training in behavioral, biobehavioral, and translational research on intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), with an emphasis on social- affective, communicative, and family processes. Trainees enter the two-year program with research experience and a Ph.D. in a discipline related to IDD, child development, human behavior, neuroscience, or epidemiology. The program is housed at, and fully integrated into, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Waisman Center, which includes an NICHD-funded P30 Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center. Fifteen faculty participate as mentors, all Waisman Center investigators with NIH-funded research programs. The program currently funds four post-doctoral trainees annually. We are requesting funding for six trainees annually. The goal is to develop the skills and enduring commitment needed to conduct high-quality, programmatic, and fundable behavioral, biobehavioral, and translational research on IDD. The program has four key elements: (a) mechanisms for coordinating and monitoring individualized training; (b) intensive research training experiences; (c) a core curriculum; and (d) a requirement that training results in well- defined products in a timely manner. We have strengthened the translational research and public health dimensions of the program through key additions to the faculty and expanded the biobehavioral dimension through the addition of seminars of the core curriculum. Nearly 30 trainees have completed the program. Most are in faculty positions at Research I universities. Many members of the earliest cohort are now tenured, have secured external research funding, moved into leadership positions, published extensively, and have an enduring commitment to IDD. More recent cohorts are on a similar trajectory. Four trainees have been members of under-represented ethnic/racial groups.