Training Medical Students to Become Child Psychiatrists

描述（由申请人提供）：参与心理健康研究的儿童精神病学家短缺，短缺的部分原因可能是研究培训往往被推迟到临床培训之后。医学研究所的一份报告建议，如果要解决短缺问题，研究培训需要尽早开始，并在整个医生培训过程中持续进行。发展心理病理学和心理生物学研究小组（DPRG），30多年来，专注于医生，心理学家和基础科学家的研究培训，特别注重培训儿童精神科医生的临床和转化研究事业。DPRG，虽然设在精神病学系，是一个多专业，多部门，多机构的小组，促进合作和翻译工作的关键概念。该提案要求为医学生研究部分提供资金，该部分将嵌入一个完善的计划中，供对发展精神病理学感兴趣的居民和博士后学员使用。拟议的医学生计划包括：（a）接触心理健康研究人员，（B）循证行为干预培训，（c）强化研究经验，（d）参与研究成果的传播，（e）负责任地开展研究的培训。该计划的预期成功是基于DPRG博士后培训计划的先前成就。参与心理健康研究的儿童精神病学家短缺。该项目利用来自5个科罗拉多机构（科罗拉多大学、丹佛大学、丹佛退伍军人管理局医疗中心、国家犹太医疗中心和丹佛儿童医院）的教师的专业知识，培训医学生成为儿童精神病学研究人员的技能。这项计划将有助于缓解全国熟练儿童精神病学研究人员的短缺。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a shortage of child-psychiatrists participating in mental health research, a shortage which may be partially attributable to research training often being delayed until after clinical training. An Institute of Medicine report recommends that, if shortages are to be addressed, research training needs to begin early and continue throughout physician training. The Developmental Psychopathology and Psychobiology Research Group (DPRG) has, for over 30 years, focused on research training for physicians, psychologists, and basic scientists, with a particular focus on training child psychiatrists for clinical and translational research careers. The DPRG, while housed in a Department of Psychiatry, is a multi-specialty, multi-departmental, and multi- institutional group that facilitates the critical concepts of collaboration and translational work. This proposal requests funding for a medical student research component to be embedded in a well-established program for residents and postdoctoral trainees interested in developmental psychopathology. The proposed medical student program includes (a) exposure to mental health researchers, (b) training in an evidence-based behavioral intervention, (c) intensive research experiences, (d) participation in the dissemination of research results, and (e) training in the responsible conduct of research. The expected success of this program is based on the previous achievements of the DPRG postdoctoral training program. There is a shortage of child-psychiatrists participating in mental health research. This program utilizes the expertise of faculty from 5 Colorado Institutions-University of Colorado, Denver University, Denver Veterans Administration Medical Center, National Jewish Medical Center, and Denver Childrens Hospital---to train medical students with the skills to be child psychiatry researchers. This program would help abate the national shortage of skilled child psychiatry researchers.