Emory Psychiatry Clinical Scientist Training Program (CSTP)

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Project Summary The Emory Psychiatry Clinical Scientist Training Program (CSTP) is designed to address critical shortages in well-trained physician scientists pursuing a career in research, while increasing access to research training and experiences for all residents. The Institute of Medicine deemed that sustaining and nurturing research interests of residents is vital to the future of psychiatry research. This renewal of the Emory CSTP will continue to address critical gaps in research training for psychiatry residents through four specific aims that leverage our previous successes, while building on lessons learned. In AIM 1, we will continue to recruit, train and retain highly qualified physician-scientists and provide protected time for intensive mentorship, didactics and individualized research experiences dedicated to fostering an independent career in mental health research. Training will emphasize fundamentals in research design, data analysis and computational methods, manuscript and grant preparation, presentation skills, rigor and reproducibility and ethical conduct of research. In AIM 2, we will continue to provide an enhanced research curriculum for all psychiatry residents through didactics and small-group experiential learning activities including our “Particle to Professor” seminar series and opportunities for all psychiatry residents to participate in CSTP research activities. In AIM 3, we will strive to increase the diversity of our program by adding a Diversity Committee that will advise on strategies to attract and match applicants of diversity. We will also launch a pilot program with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Morehouse School of Medicine to increase residents from diverse backgrounds in the Emory CSTP and facilitate Morehouse's development of their own research track. In AIM 4, we will establish a platform for ongoing collaboration with other R25 programs and the NIMH to establish and disseminate best practices for achieving the goal of increasing the number of physician scientists who successfully pursue a career in mental health research. The overarching objective of the Emory CSTP is to continue to provide enhanced research training for all residents in psychiatry, while providing specialized mentored research training opportunities for residents poised to become physician-scientists. The proposed program emphasizes proactive engagement and novel mentored research opportunities through internet-based strategies, experiential research learning activities, mentorship throughout residency and exposure to innovative research faculty and research programs in areas including neuromodulation, the neurobiology of fear and trauma-related disorders, behavioral immunology and endocrinology, neurodevelopment, translational social neuroscience, community psychiatry and public health. Given a solid research training base, ongoing faculty support, mentorship, and independent research experiences as well as specialized research training, CSTP research track residents will be well-equipped to pursue academic careers, working to solve the most pressing problems in psychiatry.