MENTAL HEALTH MENTORSHIP AND EDUCATION PROGRAM

我们建议在新墨西哥大学(UNM)发起一个精神卫生服务研究的导师和教育计划(MEP)。这所教学学院将提供为期一周的强化培训课程，重点关注初级保健环境中的少数民族心理健康问题，向少数民族初级教师和研究生介绍心理健康服务研究。MEP还将加强与杰出的精神卫生研究人员的持续指导关系，这些研究人员既可以为受训者的研究提供顾问，也可以在他们的职业发展中充当榜样。MEP的总体目标是：1)教授学员这一领域的基本研究方法，重点是如何撰写建议书和管理资助的提案；2)向学员介绍精神健康服务研究的重要近期成果，特别强调与西南少数民族人口有关的研究；3)在学员和研究导师之间建立网络；4)帮助学员在各个方面进行“职业发展”；5)编制面向少数群体的精神健康服务研究课程，可输出到其他教育机构；以及6)每年开始一系列持续的精神健康服务研究培训课程。MEP的目标参与者将包括已经参加NIMH资助的UNM的少数族裔研究基础设施支持计划(M-RISP)的少数族裔初级教员，愿意加入M-RISP的UNM其他少数族裔教员，以及来自西南地区其他机构的少数族裔实习生。每名参加培训的学员将被分配到一名UNM的导师和/或一名外部导师，在为期一周的欧洲议会会议期间和下一年与他们一起工作。外部教员将包括能够充当榜样的杰出的少数族裔心理健康服务研究人员，他们将在MEP年度会议上授课两到三天，然后在接下来的一年里担任持续导师，大约每隔一周通过电话和每三到四个月举行一次面对面的会议。总部设在新墨西哥州大学的教职员工将每周或每两周与当地受训人员会面。我们预计，MEP将为新墨西哥州和西南部地区的精神健康服务研究制定重点，并将成为全国公认的在初级保健界面上培训少数族裔教职员工的精神健康研究的模式。

We propose to initiate a Mentorship and Educational Program (MEP) in Mental Health Services Research at the University of New Mexico (UNM). Focusing on minority mental health issues in primary care settings, this teaching institute will provide an intensive, one-week training session, which will introduce mental health services research to minority junior faculty members and graduate students. The MEP also will enhance ongoing mentorship relationships with outstanding mental health researchers who can serve as both advisers for the trainees' research and as role models in their career development. The overall aims of the MEP are to: 1) teach trainees basic research methods in this field, with an emphasis on how to write proposals and manage funded proposals; 2) introduce trainees to important recent findings of mental health services research, with special emphasis on research pertinent to minority populations of the Southwest; 3) establish networks among trainees and research mentors; 4) help trainees with various aspects of "career development"; 5) produce a minority-oriented mental health services research curriculum that is exportable to other educational institutions; and 6) initiate an ongoing sequence of training sessions in mental health services research on an annual basis. Targeted participants for the MEP will include the minority junior faculty members already participating in the NIMH-funded Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program (M-RISP) at UNM, other minority faculty members at UNM who would like to affiliate with the M-RISP, and minority trainees from other institutions in the Southwest region. Each participating trainee will be assigned to a mentor at UNM and/or an external mentor with whom to work during the one-week MEP session and during the following year. External faculty members, who will include outstanding minority mental health services researchers able to serve as role models, will teach at the MEP annual session for two to three days and then will act as ongoing mentors during the following year, roughly one hour every other week by phone and via face to face meetings every three to four months. UNM-based faculty will meet with local trainees on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. We expect that the MEP will develop a focus for mental health services research in New Mexico and the Southwest region and will emerge as a nationally recognized model for training of minority faculty members in mental health research at the interface with primary care.