Alcohol Intervention Treatment Outcome Research Training

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的多学科项目的目的是培养博士后生物医学，行为，卫生保健和其他公共卫生科学家进行酒精滥用和酒精中毒的治疗和早期干预研究。一个首要目标是提高推进酒精滥用治疗研究所需的科学推理技能。从我们的角度来看，此类研究将受益于采用多学科框架（包括干预发生的生物、心理、社会和文化背景）的复杂和充分发展的理论指导下的干预措施。虽然其他机构的培训项目可能涉及治疗/早期干预研究，但这是本项目的主要任务。我们培训项目的显著特点是：跨学科；关于与酒精或药物滥用有关的功能障碍的性质，它不接受单一的意识形态或理论；它提供早期干预和治疗方面的培训；它还为学员提供了高度个性化的机会，使他们能够开发有竞争力的拨款申请，从而为酒精相关功能障碍的知识基础做出贡献。培训经验的结构是提供个性化的研究经验和培训，辅以共同的学术课程，其中分配了20%的研究员培训时间。课程涵盖四个不同的领域：(1)统计/研究方法；(2) grantsmanship;(3)研究中的伦理问题；(4)为期两年的酒精专题研讨会。我们采用导师指导下的研究学徒模式。研究员的个人研究培训经历来自于研究员制定的计划，并得到他/她的导师的同意。该计划主要强调临床试验培训，其次强调将临床研究转化为服务研究。最近增加的神经生物学和行为遗传学教学和研究经验扩大了我们的转化研究的重点，从基础研究到临床研究再到传播。预期的培训计划通常为两年，但有时我们会将培训时间延长至三年。我们为研究方法培训较少的研究员提供第三年；交叉培训的研究员，例如临床心理学家的行为遗传学培训；或者对于每组中需要更多时间来实现成为独立研究者目标的研究员。该项目每年平均招收4-5名新学员。在任何给定的时间，可能有9-10名研究员居住。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aim of our multidisciplinary program is to train post-doctoral biomedical, behavioral, health care and other public health scientists to conduct research on treatment and early interventions for alcohol abuse and alcoholism. An overarching goal is to enhance the scientific reasoning skills needed to advance treatment research in alcohol abuse. From our perspective such research will benefit from interventions guided by sophisticated and fully developed theory using a multidisciplinary framework that includes the biological, psychological, social and cultural context in which interventions occur. While other institutional training programs may address treatment/early intervention research, this is the primary mission for this program. Distinctive features of our training program are: that it is interdisciplinary; that it embraces no single ideology or theory concerning the nature of dysfunctions related to alcohol or drug abuse; that it provides training in early intervention and treatment along a continuum; and that it provides trainees with highly individualized opportunities to develop competitive grant applications and by doing so, contribute to the knowledge base of alcohol-related dysfunction. The training experience is structured to provide individualized research experience and training, complemented by a common academic curriculum to which 20% of fellows' training time is allocated. Four distinct areas are covered in the curriculum: (1) statistics/research methodology; (2) grantsmanship; (3) ethical issues in research; and (4) a two-year series of alcohol-specific seminars. We subscribe to a research apprenticeship model under the guidance of the mentor. The fellow's individual research training experience emerges from a plan developed by the fellow and agreed to by his/her mentors. The program has a primary emphasis on training in clinical trials with a secondary emphasis on the translation of clinical research into services research. The recent addition of neurobiology and behavioral genetics didactic and research experiences expands our focus of translational research from basic to clinical research to dissemination. The expected training program is typically two years but on occasion we extend this training period to three years. We offer 3rd years for fellows with less extensive training in research methods; fellows who are cross- training, e.g. training in Behavioral Genetics for a clinical psychologist; or for fellows in each cohort who need more time to accomplish their goals of becoming independent investigators. The program accepts on average 4-5 new fellows per year. At any given time there are likely to be 9-10 fellows in residence.