Research Education for Future Physician-Scientists in Child Psychiatry

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请旨在为从事儿童精神疾病调查和治疗的独立职业的医生做好准备。这样的项目是迫切需要的。这一需求是基于受影响的儿童数量众多，与他们的护理相关的社会成本相当高，现有治疗和预防方案的有效性有限，活跃在该领域的医生和科学家数量较少，以及在可预见的未来有可能取得重大科学进展。这笔拨款将使耶鲁儿童研究中心的教师有可能与美国儿童和青少年精神病学学会（AACAP）和全国各地的学术领袖合作，完善、评估和传播从医学院第一年到博士后研究培训和提交职业发展奖的示范研究教育项目。参与者将。被鼓励去追求更高的学位。对于耶鲁大学医学院的学生，该奖项将支持研究研讨会和医学院学生的研究论文项目。这一举措建立在耶鲁大学长期以来要求医学生完成一篇研究论文项目才能毕业的基础上。该奖学金计划最初是由Klingenstein第三代（KTG）基金会于2001年资助的。基于耶鲁大学奖学金项目的成功，KTG基金会在2004年在全国范围内资助了另外五个地点（哈佛大学、约翰霍普金斯大学、西奈山大学、斯坦福大学和加州大学戴维斯分校）。对于进入耶鲁大学综合儿童和成人精神病学研究途径的博士后参与者，该奖项将允许我们在他们进入我们最近更新的跨学科T32机构研究培训计划之前，资助密集的研究培训。科罗拉多大学也在进行类似的项目。目前这两个姊妹项目共有9个参与者，预计2006年7月将有另外4个参与者加入。还要求提供资金，以支持对KGT基金会医学院学生奖学金（在六个地点）和综合研究途径方案（在两个地点）的国家独立评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is aimed at preparing physicians for independent careers in the investigation and treatment of childhood psychiatric disorders. Such programs are urgently needed. This need is based on the large number of children affected, the considerable costs to society associated with their care, the limited effectiveness of available treatment and prevention programs, the small number of physician-scientists active in the field, and the potential for significant scientific advances in the foreseeable future. This grant will make it possible for the faculty of the Yale Child Study Center, working with the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and academic leaders across the country, to refine, evaluate and disseminate model research education programs that extend from the first year of medical school through postdoctoral research training and the submission of a Career Development Award. Participants will.be encouraged to pursue advanced degrees. For Yale Medical Students, this award will support research seminars and medical student research thesis projects. This initiative builds on Yale's long-standing requirement that medical students complete a research thesis project in order to graduate. This fellowship program was initially funded by the Klingenstein Third Generation (KTG) Foundation in 2001. Based on the success of the fellowship program at Yale, the KTG Foundation funded five additional sites across the country in 2004 (Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Mt. Sinai, Stanford, and UC Davis). For postdoctoral participants entering the Integrated Child and Adult Psychiatry Research Pathway at Yale, this award will permit us to fund intensive periods of research training prior to their entering our recently renewed interdisciplinary T32 Institutional Research Training Program. A similar program is underway at the University of Colorado. There are currently nine participants between these two sister programs, with another four expected to enter in July 2006. Funds are also requested to support the national independent evaluation of both the KGT Foundation Medical Student Fellowship (at six sites) and the Integrated Research Pathway Program (at two sites).