Research Training in Complementary and Alternative Medicine

描述（由申请人提供）：补充和替代医学 (CAM) 的高使用率和缺乏适当证据导致迫切需要对 CAM 疗法相关机制和结果进行更多更好的研究。为了提高 CAM 研究能力，新一代 CAM 研究人员需要接受严格的科学方法培训，以研究许多 CAM 模式、领域和潜在因果路径。该申请提出了威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校 (UW) 的 CAM 研究培训计划，该计划由 NIH 国家补充和替代中心 (NCCAM) 的 Ruth L. Kirschstein T32 国家研究服务奖资助。该培训的目的是为那些致力于从事与 CAM 相关的健康科学研究的个人提供研究培训。培训计划将是协作的、多学科的，并且根据每个学员的具体需求进行个性化。每个学员都会与初级和二级导师相匹配。培训将由威斯康星大学家庭医学系管理，但将包括来自威斯康星大学医学和公共卫生学院、护理学院、药学院以及心理学和人类学等威斯康星大学系的教师和导师。该拟议培训计划的领导者拥有强大的 CAM 研究背景，包括 NCCAM 资助的多个项目，以及培训和指导新的和早期研究人员的成功历史。拟议的实习将支持博士生和博士后实习生，包括接受过住院医师培训的医生。个性化课程、指导、资助写作、研究方法、项目管理、统计分析和出版写作将构成该培训计划的基础。每周研讨会将成为 UW CAM 学员聚集在一起形成 CAM 研究学习社区的核心活动。每年两次的研究静修将为学员提供展示其项目并发展其公开演讲技能的机会。积极的反馈和评估流程将有助于监控和完善研究培训方法，并跟踪学员在培训后进入 CAM 研究职业生涯。总之，拟议的研究培训计划将提供有指导的研究培训经验，以促进新的和早期的 CAM 研究人员转变为独立的生产性健康科学家。这将有助于满足国家当前和未来对 CAM 研究人员的需求，他们可以在这一不断发展的健康研究领域发挥领导作用。 公共卫生相关性：拟议的研究培训计划将选择和培养最有前途的博士候选人和博士后实习生，他们已表现出对研究补充和替代医学（CAM）的承诺。这将通过提供源源不断的训练有素的健康科学家来解决与 CAM 相关的机制、过程和结果方面的挑战性问题，从而为国家的医学研究和公共卫生事业带来实质性好处。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The high prevalence-of-use and lack of appropriate evidence regarding complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has resulted in a compelling need for more and better research into mechanisms and outcomes related to CAM therapies. In order to grow CAM research capacity, a new generation of CAM researchers will need to be trained in the rigorous scientific methods needed to investigate the many CAM modalities, domains, and potential causal pathways. This application proposes a CAM research training program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW), to be funded by a Ruth L. Kirschstein T32 National Research Service Award from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative (NCCAM) at NIH. The purpose of this traineeship is to provide research training to individuals aiming for careers in health science research related to CAM. The training program will be collaborative, multidisciplinary, and individualized to each trainee's specific needs. Each trainee will be matched with primary and secondary mentors. The traineeship will be administered by the UW Department of Family Medicine, but will involve faculty and mentors from across the UW Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Nursing, and Pharmacy, and in UW Departments such as Psychology and Anthropology. The leaders of this proposed training program have strong CAM research backgrounds, including several projects funded by NCCAM, and successful histories of training and mentoring new and early stage researchers. The proposed traineeship will support both doctoral candidates and post-doctoral trainees, including residency-trained physicians. Individualized coursework, mentoring, grant-writing, research methodology, project management, statistical analysis, and writing for publication will form the foundation of this training program. Weekly seminars will be the core activity that brings the UW CAM trainees together to form a CAM research learning community. Twice yearly research retreats will give trainees an opportunity to showcase their projects and to develop their public speaking skills. An active feedback and evaluation process will allow monitoring and refinement of research training methods, and will track trainees beyond their training into their CAM research careers. In summary, the proposed research training program will provide a mentored research training experience to facilitate the transformation of new and early stage CAM researchers into independent productive health scientists. This will help to address current and future national needs for CAM researchers who can fill leadership roles in this growing area of health research. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed research training program will select and develop the most promising doctoral candidates and post-doctoral trainees who have demonstrated a commitment to researching complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). This will substantively benefit the nation's medical research and public health enterprise by providing a steady stream of well-trained health scientists able to tackle challenging questions regarding mechanisms, processes and outcomes relating to CAM.