Training Researchers in Clinical Integrative Medicine (TRIM)

描述（由申请人提供）：综合医学方法，包括冥想，瑜伽，太极拳，按摩和其他实践被美国人广泛使用，希望获得健康益处。然而，关于这些做法对健康影响的证据有很大的局限性。该奖学金的目标是“中西医结合研究培训”（TRIM），旨在培训博士后行为和社会科学家，医生和其他合格的卫生专业人员，以设计和进行严格的CAM和中西医结合临床和转化研究。该计划是基于在Osher中心整合医学（OCIM）内的UCSF医学院。在本次更新中，我们详细介绍了该计划的基本原理和迄今为止的进展，并根据我们在前五年的经验提出了一项计划，其中包括改进。我们建议的一个关键变化是扩大培训计划，包括两个博士前的职位，除了目前的四个博士后职位。TRIM计划提供：一个跨学科的临床和研究环境;由一个经验丰富的和多样化的研究教师强有力的指导;在生物学和心理学研究方法的高级培训，以支持在综合医学的临床研究;严格的临床研究方法的培训，特别关注的问题，特别是与综合医学研究;机会进行原创性研究;在研究伦理的培训;以及接触到涉及从幼儿到老年患者的所有年龄组的患者护理的多种综合方法。TRIM跨学科教师有12个核心和8个附属成员，代表内科，家庭医学，心理学，人类学，生物统计学，心理神经内分泌学，妇女健康，儿科学，卫生服务研究，医学伦理学和精神病学。此外，培训计划的一个主要优势是临床咨询教师，他们可以为学员可能想要学习的特定综合医学方法提供技术援助和咨询。 TRIM教师提供必要的和可选的学术活动，根据每个学员的个人学习目标量身定制，并致力于成为学员的积极导师。TRIM计划将装备新一代的研究人员，以扩大我们的知识基础，了解中西医结合方法如何以及是否适用于特定的健康状况。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Integrative medicine approaches, including meditation, yoga, tai chi, massage, and other practices are widely used by Americans in the hope of obtaining health benefits. Evidence for the health effects of these practices, however, has important limitations. The goal of the fellowship, "Training for Research in Integrative Medicine" (TRIM), is to train post-doctoral behavioral and social scientists, physicians, and other qualified health professionals to design and conduct rigorous clinical and translational research in CAM and integrative medicine. The program is based at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine (OCIM) within the UCSF School of Medicine. In the present renewal, we detail the rationale for the program and our progress to date, and we propose a program incorporating improvements based on our experience in the first five years. A key change we propose is to expand the training program to include two predoctoral positions in addition to the current four post-doctoral positions. The TRIM program provides: an interdisciplinary clinical and research environment; strong mentoring by an experienced and diverse research faculty; advanced training in biological and psychological research methodologies to support clinical research in integrative medicine; rigorous training in clinical research methodologies, with special attention to issues that are particularly relevant to integrative medicine research; opportunity to conduct original research; training in research ethics; and exposure to diverse integrative approaches to patient care involving all age groups from early childhood through geriatric patients. The TRIM interdisciplinary faculty has twelve core and eight affiliated members representing internal medicine, family medicine, psychology, anthropology, biostatistics, psychoneuroendocrinology, women's health, pediatrics, health services research, medical ethics, and psychiatry. In addition, a major strength of the training program is the clinical advisory faculty who are available to provide technical assistance and consultation on specific integrative medicine approaches that trainees might want to study. TRIM faculty provide required and optional academic activities that are tailored to each trainee's individual learning objectives and are committed to being active mentors to trainees. The TRIM program will equip a new generation of researchers to expand our knowledge-base about how and whether integrative medicine approaches work for specific health conditions.