Alcohol Intervention Treatment Outcome Research Training

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的多学科计划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治疗和早期干预酒精滥用和酒精中毒的研究。一个总体目标是提高推进酒精滥用治疗研究所需的科学推理能力。从我们的角度来看，这样的研究将受益于先进和充分发展的理论指导下的干预措施，使用多学科框架，包括生物，心理，社会和文化背景下发生的干预措施。虽然其他机构培训计划可能涉及治疗/早期干预研究，但这是该计划的主要使命。我们的培训计划的特点是：它是跨学科的;它不包含任何单一的意识形态或理论有关的性质功能障碍与酒精或药物滥用;它提供培训，早期干预和治疗沿着一个连续性;它为学员提供了高度个性化的机会，以制定有竞争力的赠款申请，并通过这样做，有助于酒精相关功能障碍的知识基础。培训经验的结构是为了提供个性化的研究经验和培训，辅之以共同的学术课程，其中20%的研究员的培训时间分配。课程包括四个不同的领域：（1）统计/研究方法;（2）研究;（3）研究中的道德问题;（4）为期两年的酒精专题研讨会系列。我们在导师的指导下订阅研究学徒模式。研究员的个人研究培训经验来自研究员制定并经其导师同意的计划。该计划主要侧重于临床试验培训，次要侧重于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的教学和研究经验，扩大了我们的重点从基础到临床研究的传播转化研究。预期的培训计划通常为两年，但有时我们会将培训期延长至三年。我们为研究方法培训不太广泛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;或者为每个队列中需要更多时间来实现成为独立调查员的目标的研究员。该计划平均每年接受4-5名新研究员。在任何时候，都可能有9-10名研究员常驻。

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.