CLINICAL RESEARCH SCHOLARS PROGRAM IN PSYCHIATRY

宾夕法尼亚大学精神病学系提议创建一个新的精神病学临床研究学者计划(CRSP)，这是一个嵌套在住院医师计划中的专门课程，并辅之以第五年的奖学金培训。在系主任、教育署署长和研究发展副主席的带领下，研究发展计划将吸引和培训在精神病学和精神健康方面有前途的年轻临床研究人员。这家新的企业将把高级研究人员聚集在一起，进行创新的教育努力，为受训人员提供密集的指导，提供关于精神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，精神病学系已经重组了其广泛的研究、临床和培训计划，以支持积极扩大临床研究人员队伍。CRSP将提供一个课程，旨在向学员介绍基础和临床科学的前沿研究，使他们熟悉精神病学和精神健康研究的基本方法，提供指导研究经验，提供高级研究课程，并在最后一年的培训中支持独立的临床研究。住院医师资格的修改将允许CRSP受训人员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。学员将从医学院申请者库中招募，并将在他们的PGY-I学年结束时被选入该项目。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、课程作业和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的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以及他们的研究活动。对这一计划的机构承诺的力量体现在部门资金的分配上，以支持第五年培训的50%，并促进成功的毕业生到系教职员工的招聘。拟议计划的优势包括：(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)大学范围内对临床研究专业知识发展的重视；(3)全国第二大精神病学研究计划；(4)神经生物学和行为中心的综合神经科学研究计划；(5)与医疗中心的其他关键资源，包括临床流行病学和生物统计学中心、生物伦理学中心、少数族裔健康卓越中心和联邦资助的普通临床研究中心，建立强有力的协作联系；(6)在一个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.