RESEARCH TRAINING IN CHILD PSYCHOPATHOLOGY & TREATMENT

提出了儿童精神病理学和治疗领域的机构博士后培训计划。该计划将侧重于儿童和青少年主要精神疾病的病因、表现和治疗，并将有助于解决这一领域训练有素的临床研究人员短缺的问题。拟建培训项目的六名项目教师在约翰霍普金斯医疗机构的儿童和青少年精神病学部门任职。用于培训的设施将包括设在儿童中心的该司和设在儿童中心对面的肯尼迪·克里格发育障碍研究所。一个已建立的资助研究组合，一个促进和支持研究的基础设施，以及具有成功培训临床研究人员记录的教师已经到位。美国国立卫生研究院资助的机构培训方案的启动将提供使这些活动正式化和加强的结构。建议每年培养4名儿童精神科博士后或博士。对儿童精神病理和治疗有临床研究兴趣。培训时间为2年，第三年是可选的，主要针对医学博士需要更广泛的研究训练。培训包括：(1)核心课程，以确保对研究方法、设计和统计原理的基本理解；(2)与主要导师合作监督临床研究；(3)参加研讨会和会议，包括每周一次的研讨会，所有受训者和项目教师都参加，重点是开展临床研究的方法（即如何选择研究领域，对文献进行批判性审查的技能）；如何识别和完善一个研究项目的想法，以及如何写一个研究计划)。培训计划的目标是，每个学员将在主要的国家科学会议上展示他/她的研究成果，并能够在儿童精神病理学和治疗方面成功地成为独立的临床研究人员。

An institutional post-doctoral training program in the area of child psychopathology and treatment is proposed. The program will focus on causes, manifestations and treatments of major psychiatric disorders of children and adolescents and will serve to address the shortage of well- trained clinical researchers in this field. The six program faculty in the proposed training program have appointments in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Facilities used for training will include the Division, located in the Children's Center and the Kennedy Krieger Institute for Developmental Disorders, located across the street from the Children's Center. An established funded research portfolio, an infrastructure which promotes and supports research, and faculty with a record of successfully training clinical researchers are already in place. The initiation of an NIH-funded institutional training program would provide the structure to formalize and enhance these activities. The proposed training program includes 4 postdoctoral positions per year for child psychiatrists or PhD.'s with clinical research interest in child psychopathology and treatment. Training duration is 2 years with an optional third year, primarily for M.D.'s requiring more extensive research training. Training consists of: (1) core course work to ensure a basic understanding of the principles of research methods, design, and statistics, (2) supervised clinical research in collaboration with a primary mentor and (3) participation in seminars and meetings including a weekly seminar involving all trainees and program faculty and focussed on the methods of conducting clinical research studies (i.e., how to choose an area of research, skills for critical review of the literature, how to identify and refine an research project idea, and how to write a research proposal). It is the goal of the training program that each trainee will present results from his/her research at major, national scientific meetings and be able to succeed subsequently as independent clinical researchers in child psychopathology and treatment.