CLINICAL RESEARCH SCHOLARS PROGRAM IN PSYCHIATRY

宾夕法尼亚大学精神病学系提议在精神病学领域创建一个新的临床研究学者项目（CRSP），这是一个嵌套在住院医师项目中的专业项目，并与第五年的奖学金培训相结合。该计划由精神病学系主席、教育主任和研究发展副主席领导，将吸引和培训精神病学和心理健康领域有前途的年轻临床研究人员。这一新项目将汇集资深研究人员，开展创新教育工作，为受训者提供密集指导，开设有关心理健康研究问题和方法的专门课程，并逐步自主参与临床研究。作为公认的卓越研究中心，精神病学部门重组了其广泛的研究、临床和培训项目，以支持临床研究人员的积极扩张。该方案将提供一门课程，旨在向学员介绍基础科学和临床科学前沿的调查，使他们熟悉精神病学和心理健康研究的基本方法，提供有针对性的研究经验，提供高级研究课程，并在培训的最后一年支持独立的临床研究。实习的修改将允许CRSP受训者逐步增加与研究相关的经验和学习的时间，同时满足他们对精神病学委员会认证的要求。实习生将从医学院申请者中招募，并将在他们的PGY-I学年结束时被选中进入该计划。在接下来的每一年，临床研究知识和技能将通过指导，直接参与研究，课程作业，以及生物伦理学和相关专业发展问题的研讨会来培养。完成后，学员将进行独立的以患者为导向的研究，并将竞争学术精神病学的职位。CRSP资源将主要用于支持受训人员的工资、他们参加研究会议的旅费和他们的研究活动。机构对这个项目的承诺体现在部门资金的分配上，用于支持第五年培训的50%，并促进招聘成功的毕业生到系里任教。本计划的优势包括：(1)经验丰富的部门领导，在临床研究、基础研究和临床教育方面具有互补的专业知识；(2)全校重视临床研究专业人才的培养；(3)全国第二大精神病学研究项目；(4)神经生物学和行为中心的综合神经科学研究项目；(5)与医学中心的其他关键资源紧密合作，包括临床流行病学和生物统计学中心、生物伦理学中心、少数民族健康卓越中心和联邦政府资助的普通临床研究中心；(6)在综合行为健康系统内，来自四家主要教学医院的广泛患者资源。

The University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychiatry proposes to create a new Clinical Research Scholars Program (CRSP) in Psychiatry, a specialized track nested in the residency program and coupled with a fifth year of fellowship training. Led by the Department's Chair, the Director of Education and the Vice-Chair for Research Development, the CRSP will attract and train promising young clinical investigators in psychiatry and mental health. This new venture will bring together senior research faculty in an innovative educational effort that will provide intensive mentoring to trainees, specialized courses in mental health research issues and methods, and progressively autonomous participation in clinical research. A proven center of excellence in research, the Department of Psychiatry has reorganized its extensive research, clinical and training programs to support an aggressive expansion of the clinical research faculty. The CRSP will offer a curriculum which is designed to introduce trainees to investigations at the cutting edge of basic and clinical science, to familiarize them with basic methods in psychiatry and mental health research, to provide directed research experiences, to provide advanced courses in research, and to support independent clinical research during the final year of training. Modifications of the residency will permit CRSP trainees progressively increasing amounts of time in research-related experience and study while fulfilling their requirements for board certification in psychiatry. Trainees will be recruited from medical school applicant pools and will be selected into the program at the end of their PGY-I year. In each succeeding year, clinical research knowledge and skills will be fostered through mentoring, direct participation in research, course work, and seminars in bioethics and related professional development issues. Upon completion, trainees will have conducted independent patient oriented research, and will compete for positions in academic psychiatry. CRSP resources will be committed primarily toward supporting the salaries of trainees, their travel to research meetings, and their research activities. The strength of the institutional commitment to this program is made manifest in the allocation of departmental funds to support 50 percent of the fifth year of training, and to facilitate the recruitment of successful graduates to the Department faculty. Strengths of the proposed program include: (1) experienced departmental leadership with complementary expertise in clinical research, basic research and clinical education; (2) university-wide emphasis on the development of expertise in Clinical Research; (3) the second-largest research program in psychiatry in the nation; (4) an integrated neuroscience research program housed in the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior; (5) strong collaborative links with other key resources in the medical center including the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the Center for Bioethics, the Center for Excellence in Minority Health, and a federally-funded General Clinical Research Center, and (6) extensive patient resources from four major teaching hospitals within an integrated behavioral health system.