Clinical Research Training in Child Psychiatry

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请是5T32 MH18951-18，儿童心理健康干预与服务研究博士后临床研究培训项目的竞争性更新。要求支助4名住院后儿童精神科医生、4名博士后儿童心理学家或其他博士预备专业人员，以及4名医科学生参加暑期研究选修课。在夏季研究项目中，医学院学生与培训学院的研究导师一起研究一个项目，以促进对儿童精神病学研究的兴趣。该博士后培养计划旨在培养能够进行原创性和有意义的研究的科学家：(1)研究发病机制、持久性和治疗反应；(2)研究消费者、提供者和环境因素对干预可接受性、有效性和吸收的影响；(3)将基础研究成果(例如上述（1)和(2)）转化为临床干预措施；(4)识别治疗反应的个体差异，从而实现治疗的个性化和优化；(4)在社区环境中实施有效的干预；(5)研究有效治疗方法的传播策略。一个具有长期和成功的研究和研究培训历史的多学科教师团队为学员提供指导，他们在上述所有领域都具有专业知识。该计划最重要的方面是学员与致力于研究培训的学术上成功的导师配对。导师让学员参与现有项目，为二次分析提供数据，监督学员撰写出版物和科学报告，并帮助学员制定一套研究问题和起草一份研究计划，这将导致该领域的重大进展和外部资金（通常是职业奖励）。将为每位学员量身定制教学学习课程，以确保获得研究设计、统计和相关研究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，这些研讨会涉及科学问题的提出、拨款的撰写、科学行为的伦理方面以及项目管理。在本项目期间，我们有10名学员毕业，其中9人已经或已经获得教职，8人获得外部资助，6人获得职业奖励。在参加暑期项目的11名医学生中，有9人承诺做儿童精神病学的学术项目，在4名毕业的学生中，有2人进入了儿童精神病学领域。

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.