Training Medical Students to Become Child Psychiatrists

描述(申请人提供)：参加心理健康研究的儿童精神科医生短缺，部分原因可能是研究培训经常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，研究培训需要及早开始，并在整个医生培训过程中继续进行。发展精神病理学和心理生物学研究小组(DPRG)30多年来一直专注于医生、心理学家和基础科学家的研究培训，特别注重为临床和转化性研究职业培训儿童精神病学家。DPRG虽然设在精神病学系，但它是一个多专业、多部门和多机构的团体，促进合作和翻译工作的关键概念。这项提案要求为医学生研究部分提供资金，将其嵌入到为对发展精神病理学感兴趣的住院医生和博士后培训人员制定的完善计划中。拟议的医学生计划包括(A)接触心理健康研究人员，(B)以循证行为干预为基础的培训，(C)密集的研究经验，(D)参与研究结果的传播，以及(E)负责任地进行研究的培训。这一项目的预期成功是基于DPRG博士后培训项目之前的成果。参与心理健康研究的儿童精神病学家很少。该计划利用来自科罗拉多大学、丹佛大学、丹佛退伍军人管理医疗中心、国家犹太医疗中心和丹佛儿童医院等5所科罗拉多州机构的教师的专业知识来培训具有成为儿童精神病学研究人员的技能的医学生。这项计划将有助于缓解全国熟练的儿童精神病学研究人员短缺的问题。

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.