Clinical Research Training in Child Psychiatry

描述(申请人提供)：本次申请是5T32 MH18951-18的竞争性续展，该项目是儿童心理健康干预和服务研究的博士后临床研究培训项目。请求支助4名住院医师后儿童精神病学家、4名博士后儿童心理学家或其他博士后专业人员，以及4名医学生参加夏季研究选修课。在暑期研究计划中，医学生与培训教师的研究导师合作开展一个项目，以开发出可出版的产品，以激发人们对儿童精神病学研究的兴趣。博士后培训计划旨在培养能够制定原创性和重大研究的科学家，这些研究包括：(1)研究发病机制、持久性和治疗反应；(2)研究干预可接受性、有效性和接受性的消费者、提供者和背景决定因素；(3)将基本研究结果(例如，上文(1)和(2))转化为临床干预措施；(4)确定治疗反应中可能导致个性化和最优化治疗的个体差异；(4)在社区环境中实施有效干预；以及(5)研究传播有效治疗的策略。一个拥有长期和成功的研究和研究培训历史的多学科教员小组为受训者提供指导，拥有上述所有领域的专业知识。该计划最重要的方面是将受训者与致力于研究培训的学术成功导师配对。导师让受训人员参与现有项目，为二次分析提供数据，监督受训人员编写出版物和科学演示文稿，并帮助受训人员提出一系列研究问题并起草研究提案，这将导致该领域的重大进展和外部资金(通常是职业奖励)。将为每个受训人员开发一个单独定制的教学研究课程，以确保获得与研究相关的研究设计、统计和内容领域的核心知识。受训者还参加正在进行的关于“研究生存技能”的研讨会，涉及科学问题的制定、拨款撰写、科学行为的伦理方面和项目管理。在目前的项目期间，我们已经毕业了10名实习生，其中9人已经或已经获得了教师职位，8人获得了外部资金，6人获得了职业奖励。在11名参加暑期项目的医学生中，有9名承诺做一个儿童精神病学的学术项目，在4名已毕业的学生中，有两名进入了儿童精神病学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is a competitive renewal of 5T32 MH18951-18, a postdoctoral clinical research training program in child mental health intervention and services research. Support is requested for 4 postresidency child psychiatrists, 4 post-doctoral child psychologists or other doctorally-prepared professionals, and four medical students for summer research electives. In the summer research program, medical students work with a research mentor from the training faculty on a project leading to a publishable product in order to stimulate interest in child psychiatry research. The postdoctoral training program aims to develop scientists who can formulate original and significant research that: (1) studies mechanisms of pathogenesis, persistence, and treatment response; (2) studies consumer, provider, and contextual determinants of intervention acceptability, effectiveness, and uptake; (3) translates basic research findings (e.g., (1) and (2) above) into clinical interventions; (4) identifies individual differences in treatment response that can lead to personalization and optimization of treatment; (4) implements effective interventions in community settings; and (5) studies strategies for the dissemination of effective treatments. A multi-disciplinary faculty group with a long and successful history of research and research training provides mentorship to trainees, with expertise in all of the above-noted areas. The foremost aspect of the program is the pairing of the trainee with an academically successful mentor committed to research training. The mentor involves the trainee in existing projects, provides access to data for secondary analyses, supervises the trainee in the development of publications and scientific presentations, and helps the trainee to develop a set of research questions and draft a research proposal that will lead to significant advances in the field and external funding (usually a career award). An individually tailored course of didactic study will be developed for each trainee to insure the acquisition of core knowledge in research design, statistics, and content areas relevant to research. Trainees also participate in ongoing seminars on "research survival skills," dealing with formulation of scientific questions, grant writing, ethical aspects of scientific conduct, and project management. During the current project period, we have graduated 10 trainees, of whom 9 all have, or have been offered faculty appointments, 8 have external funding, and 6 have career awards. Of 11 medical students who have entered the summer program, 9 have made a commitment to do a scholarly project in child psychiatry, and of 4 who have graduated, two have entered child psychiatry.