Clinical research scholars programs in psychiatry

描述（由申请人提供）：这是临床研究学者计划（CRSP）五年额外资助的竞争性继续申请，该计划是1999年资助的精神病学住院医师研究培训跟踪，以响应RFA。它提供由高级研究人员指导的四年以患者为导向的研究培训，保护时间从17%（PGY-2）增加到100%（PGY-5），因为受训者承担更多的研究责任。我们要求平均每PGY年为略多于2名学员提供支持。教学计划包括每周一次的研究技能和设计，统计和生物伦理学研讨会，以及高级学员的额外课程。基于最近经历了扩展和加强其教师和学术课程的深度，质量和多样性的精神病学部门，CRSP由部门主席指导，他在研究培训，住院医师培训主任和前住院医师培训主任方面拥有丰富的经验。到目前为止，所有9 CRSP毕业生已进入全职驻院后研究培训（与前四年相比几乎增加了五倍），这个年轻的计划的5名毕业生已加入大学院系，几乎增加了三倍。 拟议的改进措施包括围绕具体学习目标和活动的年度个性化研究培训计划（IRTP）建立的评估过程，每六个月进行一次正式评估;由高级研究人员执行委员会进行更深入的计划审查，并由专家外部咨询委员会进行实地考察;临床流行病学和生物统计学中心成员更多地参与教学和个人咨询;增加对受训人员与研究有关的费用和课程的支助;使用短期和长期的方案业绩基准。该计划将为下一代研究人员提供优秀的指导性以患者为导向的研究培训。 拟议计划的优势包括：（1）具有丰富研究和培训经验的领导团队;（2）在全国第二大精神病学研究计划中具有出色的临床研究环境;（3）基于学员和高级研究人员之间的密集指导关系的成功计划模式，这些人员承诺投入大量时间和资源，并辅以强大的教学计划;（4）在招聘和提升女性和少数民族教师方面越来越成功，（5）招聘优秀的住院医生，包括女性和代表性不足的少数民族;（6）前四年的成功成果，包括毕业生的教师任命增加了近三倍，进入住院后研究培训计划的毕业生增加了近五倍（9 CRSP毕业生中的9人）;（7）在教学中参与独特的心理健康生物伦理学计划;（8）基于个性化研究培训计划的目标设定和评估的结构化过程。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a competing continuation application for five years additional funding of for the Clinical Research Scholars Program (CRSP), a research training track for psychiatry residents funded in 1999 in response to an RFA. It provides four years of patient-oriented research training mentored by senior research faculty, with protected time increasing from 17% (PGY-2) to 100% (PGY-5) as trainees' assume more responsibility for their research. We are requesting support for slightly more than 2 trainees per PGY year on average. The didactic program includes a weekly seminar on research skills and design, statistics and bioethics, and additional coursework for advanced trainees. Based in a psychiatry department that has undergone a recent expansion and strengthening of the depth, quality, and diversity of its faculty and academic programs, CRSP is directed by the department Chair who has extensive experience in research training, the residency training director, and a former residency training director who is an active principal investigator. To date, all 9 CRSP graduates have entered full-time post-residency research training (an almost five-fold increase vs. the previous four years), and 5 graduates of this young program have joined university faculties, an almost three-fold increase. Proposed enhancements include an evaluation process built around a yearly Individualized Research Training Plan (IRTP) of specific learning objectives and activities, with formal assessments every six months; more intensive program review by an Executive Committee of senior research faculty and site visits by an expert External Advisory Board; increased involvement of members of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics in teaching and individual consultations; increased support for trainees' research-related expenses and coursework; and use of short- and long-term benchmarks of program performance. The proposed program will provide outstanding mentored patient-oriented research training for the next generation of investigators. Strengths of the proposed program include: (1) a leadership team with extensive research and training experience; (2) an outstanding clinical research environment in the second-largest psychiatry research program in the country; (3) a successful program model based on intensive mentoring relationships between trainees and senior research faculty who make significant commitments of time and resources, complemented by a strong didactic program; (4) increasing success in recruiting and promoting women and minority faculty, (5) recruitment of outstanding residents, including women and under-represented minorities; (6) successful outcomes in the first four years including an almost three-fold increase in graduates' faculty appointments and an almost five-fold increase in graduates entering a post-residency research training program (9 of 9 CRSP graduates); (7) involvement of a unique mental health bioethics program in teaching; and (8) a structured process for goal-setting and evaluation based on an Individualized Research Training Plan.