Morgan State University-Public Health Program-CAM Research Training Program (Inst

描述（由申请人提供）：摩根州立大学公共卫生计划的补充和替代医学研究培训计划（MSU-PHP CAMRTP）将招募和培训博士后和博士前研究员以及短期实习生，从事与替代医学实践（特别是少数民族）流行病学、植物成分标准化、使用植物药/饮食/其他治疗方法预防或治疗疾病的安全性和有效性相关的研究。CAM与传统医学实践的整合，以及CAM研究中的新兴方法。这一研究培训计划是必要的，因为有更多的人记录使用辅助医学治疗方式，但这些产品和做法安全有效使用的证据基础落后于传统医学决策。因此，我们必须培养一支研究人员队伍，他们将建立CAM产品和实践的安全性和有效性，同时挑战传统研究方法的能力，以适当地回答该领域的复杂问题。MSU-PHP CAM研究培训项目将利用与合作伙伴、传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）网络、少数民族服务机构（MSIs）和非裔美国人公共卫生项目联盟的联系，作为主要的招聘策略，以CAM培训和传统培训的少数民族成为CAM研究人员。由于密歇根州立大学是HBCU，并且在吸引和培训研究人员方面取得了成功，我们的战略定位是在未来取得成功。我们的项目还利用了密歇根州立大学内的几个学科（公共卫生、化学、生物学、物理学等）和密歇根州立大学外的合作伙伴(约翰霍普金斯大学医学院、泰索菲亚治疗艺术研究所、美国农业部贝尔茨维尔人类营养研究中心、以及马里兰研究和应用科学联盟)提供指导和研究培训经验，同时让我们的研究员接触到广泛的CAM研究和实践。我们不仅致力于了解正在使用的CAM模式，而且还致力于了解为什么使用CAM模式。为了回答为什么这个问题，我们将与基础科学家、人类学家、心理学家、社会学家以及定量和定性方法学家合作，在自然环境中探索CAM/传统医学实践。迄今为止，密歇根州立大学php CAM研究员已经研究了瑜伽与高血压，红茶和脂质排泄的关系，从业者/患者对CAM治疗结果的一致性信念，草药和更年期妇女的记忆，植物成分标准化，植物提取物对糖尿病的影响，以及为资助申请和在同行评审期刊上发表提供试点数据。在未来五年内，该计划将培养10名博士后、15名博士预科研究员和60名短期实习生。博士后候选人将被要求证明他们已经获得了博士学位，D.V.M， D.D.S，医学博士，或来自认可的国内或国外机构的可比博士学位。博士预科学生必须完成本科课程，GPA不低于3.0才可无条件录取，或者GPA不低于2.5才可获得试用录取。短期受训者将在与CAM研究准备相关的领域完成相当于两年的本科学习（信誉良好）。大量的短期实习生将帮助我们向合作院校的学生介绍CAM研究，从而增加人才库，从中提取有兴趣和承诺的博士前或博士后研究员。由于预防和治疗大多数早期慢性疾病和肥胖的推荐疗法是改变生活方式/行为，因此这项研究投资可以大大提高安全有效的CAM模式发挥作用的机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): , The Morgan State University-Public Health Program's Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Training Program (MSU-PHP CAMRTP) will recruit and train Post and Pre doctoral fellows and short-term trainees in research related to the epidemiology of CAM practices (especially among minorities), botanical content standardization, safety and efficacy of using botanicals/ diet/ other healing practices for prevention or treatment of diseases, integration of CAM and conventional medicine practice as well as emerging methodologies in CAM research. This research training program is needed because more people are documented to be using CAM modalities but the evidence-base for the safe and effective use of these products and practices lags behind that available for decision making in conventional medicine. Therefore it is imperative that we train a1 workforce of researchers who will establish the safety and efficacy of CAM products and practices while challenging the ability of traditional research methodologies to appropriately answer the complex questions in this field. The MSU-PHP CAM research training program will use outreach to partners, the network of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and the Consortium of African American Public Health Programs as a primary recruitment strategy to target both CAM-trained and conventionally trained minorities to become CAM researchers. Since MSU is an HBCU and has been successful in attracting and training researchers who have gone on to do well, we are strategically positioned to build upon this success in the future. Our Program is also designed to use several disciplines within MSU (Public Health, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, etc) and partners outside MSU (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Tai Sophia Institute for the Healing Arts, United States Department of Agriculture Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, and The Maryland Research and Applied Sciences Consortium) to provide mentoring and research training experiences while exposing our Fellows to a wide range of CAM research and practice. We are not only dedicated to understanding what CAM modalities are being used but why. To answer the why question, we will partner our research fellows with basic scientists, anthropologist, psychologist, sociologists, and both quantitative and qualitative methodologists to explore CAM/traditional medicine practices in their natural environments. To date MSU-PHP CAM Fellows have investigated the relationship of Yoga to hypertension, black tea and lipid excretion, concordance of practitioner/patient beliefs on CAM treatment outcomes, herbals and memory in menopausal women, botanical content standardization, botanical extract impact on diabetes as well as providing pilot data for grant applications and publishing in peer reviewed journals. Over the next five years the Program will train 10 Postdoctoral, 15 Pre-doctoral Fellows and 60 short-term trainees. Postdoctoral candidates will be required to show proof that they have earned a Ph.D., D.V.M, D.D.S., M.D., or a comparable doctoral degree from an accredited domestic or foreign institution. Pre- doctoral candidates will have completed an undergraduate program of study with a GPA of 3.0 for unconditional acceptance or 2.5 GPA for probational acceptance. Short term trainees will have completed the equivalent of two years of study in an undergraduate (in good standing) in a field relevant to preparation for research in CAM. The large number of short-term trainees will help us introduce CAM research to students from partnering institutions thereby increasing the 'pool from which to extract interested and committed pre or post doctoral fellows. Since the recommended therapy for prevention and treatment of most early stage chronic diseases and obesity is lifestyle/behavior change, the opportunity for safe and efficacious CAM modalities to make a difference can be greatly enhanced by this research investment.