RESEARCH TRACK RESIDENCY TRAINING PROGRAM

此申请寻求支持一个独特的，5年的研究跟踪计划嵌入一个现有的，非常成功的住院医师计划在精神病学，马里兰大学医学院的部门。该计划的目标是招募有才华的医学毕业生进入住院医师研究跟踪计划，并提供广泛的研究培训，在他们的长期住院医师培训过程中，有机会在长期指导下进行研究。这将为有才华的医学毕业生提供工具，使他们在早期训练中成为精神疾病方面独立和富有成效的研究者。培训有三个组成部分：(i)生物统计学、研究设计和神经科学的正式课程；（二）参加导师实验室的实验；（iii）在导师的指导下启动独立项目，并获得竞争性试点项目基金的支持。这一培训计划的背景是一个成熟的、学术性的精神科，它有一个活跃的联邦资助的研究组合，拥有两个NIMH支持的中心，干预研究中心和严重精神疾病服务研究中心，并有一个充满活力的基础神经科学存在。该部在训练精神分裂症和其他精神疾病方面富有成效的调查人员方面有着良好的记录。

This application seeks support for a unique, five year Research Track Program embedded in an existing, highly successful residency program at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine. The goals of the program are to recruit talented medical graduates into the Residency Research Track Program, and provide extensive research training, opportunities to conduct hands on research with long-term mentorship during the course of their extended residency training. This will provide tools to talented medical graduates early in their training to become independent and productive investigators in mental illness. The training has three components: (i) formal courses in biostatistics, research design, and neuroscience; (ii) participation in experiments in the mentor's laboratory; and (iii) initiation of an independent project with the mentor's guidance, and support from a competitive Pilot Projects Funds. The setting for this proposed training is a mature, academic Psychiatric Department which has an active federally funded research portfolio, hosts two NIMH supported centers, the Intervention Research Center and the Center for Research on Services for Severe Mental Illness, and has a vibrant basic neuroscience presence. The Department has an excellent track record of training productive investigators in schizophrenia and other mental illnesses.