CLINICAL RESEARCH EDUCATION IN MENTAL HEALTH

宾夕法尼亚大学医学院(Penn)开发了 一个独特而令人兴奋的项目，为有前途的医学生做好准备 成为临床神经科学实践的前沿领导者和 研究。本提案的目的是在#年加强这一方案 这样一种进一步鼓励学生从事研究的方式 心理健康方面的职业。管理型医疗保健的出现使 学术医疗中心在严峻的经济压力下不得不削减 研究和教育预算。医科学生都知道这些 这是一种趋势，并不鼓励从事研究事业。医学博士/博士 项目鼓励学生对基础研究感兴趣，但很少有 培养临床研究人员的机制是存在的。为了试图 为了应对这些趋势，宾夕法尼亚州立大学创立了临床神经科学 轨道(CNST)。该计划识别即将入学的医学生 对临床神经科学感兴趣，从中培养出一种精神 团队之间以及临床神经科学学院的合作，以及 培训他们进行评估所需的科学思维技能 并参与临床相关研究。学生们也会表演 一个研究项目。国家科学技术委员会非常成功，在四年后 几年来，已经发展到100多名学生。因此，它不能再运行 而不是由外部来源分担费用。现有的CNST现在将 将进行修改，以进一步加强其 医学生对心理健康的研究。以下是具体目标 建议：目标1.确定即将入学的医学生可能 对心理健康研究感兴趣，让他们接触到心理健康 在他们的医学院生涯中进行相关研究并灌输 他们需要批判性思维的技能来评估这一点 研究。目的2.为学生提供研究经验 在医学院期间，为了鼓励他们考虑职业 在心理健康研究方面。目标3.与这些人保持联系 学生毕业后，为了帮助他们的职业生涯 发展，以及监测该方案的成功。 将大力鼓励少数群体和妇女参与。这个 Cnst将由一名董事管理，并由 协调员。将有两个主要委员会-一个教育委员会 计划委员会和研究委员会。预计每一位 今年，最初的20-30名学生中有15名将完成整个项目， 包括研究项目。这一计划将增加 进入心理健康研究职业生涯的医生 这是其他医学院效仿的典范。

The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (PENN) has developed a unique and exciting program to prepare promising medical students to become leaders at the cutting edge of clinical neuroscience practice and research. The present proposal is aimed at enhancing this program in such a way as to further encourage its students to enter research careers in mental health. The advent of managed care has placed academic medical centers under severe economic pressures to trim research and education budgets. Medical students are aware of these trends and are discouraged from pursuing research careers. MD/PhD programs encourage students interested in basic research, but few mechanisms exist for nurturing clinical researchers. In an attempt to counter these tendencies, PENN has created the Clinical Neuroscience Track (CNST). This program identifies incoming medical students who are interested in the clinical neurosciences, develops in them an esprit de corps with each other and with the clinical neuroscience faculty, and trains them in the skills of scientific thinking necessary to evaluate and participate in clinically relevant research. Students also perform a research project. The CNST has been very successful and after four years, has grown to over 100 students. Thus it can no longer be run without cost sharing by extramural sources. The existing CNST will now be modified in ways that will further strengthen the exposure of its medical students to mental health research. The following specific aims are proposed: Aim 1. To identify incoming medical students who may be interested in research in mental health, expose them to mental health related research throughout their medical school careers and instill in them the skills of critical thinking necessary to evaluate this research. Aim 2. To provide the students with research experiences during medical school, in order to encourage them to consider careers in mental health research. Aim 3. To maintain contact with these students after they graduate in order to assist them with their career development, as well as to monitor the success of the program. Participation by minorities and women will be strongly encouraged. The CNST will be administered by a director with the assistance of a coordinator. There will be two major committees - an educational planning committee and a research committee. It is expected that each year, 15 of the initial 20-30 students will complete the entire program, including the research project. This program will increase the number of physicians entering careers in mental health research and serve as a model for other medical schools to emulate.