Arizona Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：本次竞争延续NIH/NCCAM T32申请亚利桑那州补充和替代医学研究培训计划(ACAMRTP，Pi Iris R.Bell，医学博士)的首要目标是培养合格的研究员，在亚利桑那大学医学院家庭和社区医学系(DFCM)的跨学科设置下，对整个CAM系统进行严谨和创新的研究。成功的ACAMRTP研究员将进入富有成效和成功的学术生涯，这将有助于评估广泛使用的整个CAM系统的有效性、安全性、影响和社会机制，例如传统中医、顺势疗法、自然疗法、本土治疗传统和现代综合医学。这一强调与NCCAM支持整个系统研究(WSR)的五年计划的既定目标是一致的。为了实现总体目标，目前的具体目标是：1.从与整个CAM方法系统相关的一系列主要学科中确定和招募合格的申请者作为研究员，包括初级保健医学、人类学、护理学、心理学和CAM学科。2.提供有系统和有指导的培训计划，其中包括明确的主要和次要的科学和学术目标，与DFCM核心教师导师和附属指导教师定期进行建设性互动，在整个亚利桑那大学范围内资助CAM研究兴趣，对研究员的工作进行深思熟虑的科学批评，支持专业陈述和提交结果以供发表，并在赠款编写、项目开发和项目实施技能方面为职业成功做好实际准备。3.通过正式的课程和研讨会系列、会议、与科学导师的互动和研究项目，以跨学科的WSR方法为研究员奠定基础，这些都被整合到一个综合计划中。这项工作建立在T32核心教员与整合医学计划和大学其他学术单位的现有合作关系以及以CAM为导向的博士机构的外部合作者网络的基础上，这些合作者将推荐潜在的受训者申请入学。目前的提案反映了从行政、学术和课程角度来看的几项改进，这些改进是从实施T32计划的头五年的经验中产生的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of this competing continuation NIH/NCCAM T32 application for the Arizona Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Training Program (ACAMRTP, PI Iris R. Bell, MD PhD) is to prepare qualified fellows to perform rigorous and innovative research on whole systems of CAM within the setting of an interdisciplinary Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Successful ACAMRTP fellows will proceed into productive and successful academic careers that will contribute to evaluating the effectiveness, safety, impact, and societal mechanisms of widely-used whole systems of CAM, e.g., traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), homeopathy, naturopathy, indigenous healing traditions, and contemporary integrative medicine. This emphasis is consistent with stated goal of NCCAM's Five-Year Strategic Plan to support whole systems research (WSR). To achieve the overarching goal, current specific aims are: 1. To identify and recruit qualified applicants as fellows, drawn from a range of primary disciplines that are relevant to a whole systems of CAM approach, including primary care medicine, anthropology, nursing, psychology, and CAM disciplines. 2. To offer a structured and directed training program that will include clear primary and secondary scientific and academic goals, regular constructive interactions with core DFCM faculty mentors and affiliate mentoring faculty with funded CAM research interests throughout the University of Arizona, thoughtful scientific criticism of the work of the fellows, support for professional presentations and submission of results for publication, and practical preparation in grant-writing, project development, and project implementation skills for career success. 3. To ground fellows in a interdisciplinary WSR approach, through formal coursework and seminar series, conferences, interactions with scientific mentors, and research projects that are integrated into a comprehensive program. This work builds upon existing collaborative relationships of T32 core faculty members with the Program in Integrative Medicine and other academic units at the University as well as the network of extramural collaborators at CAM-oriented doctoral institutions who will refer potential trainees for admission. The current proposal reflects several enhancements from an administrative, academic, and curricular perspective that emerged from experience in the first five years of implementing this T32 program.