Research Training for Child Psychiatry and Development

描述(由申请人提供)：本申请是对斯坦福大学非常成功的儿童和青少年精神病学T32博士后培训项目的竞争性续签，该培训项目由Allan L.Reiss博士指导：T32MH19908。儿童精神病学和儿童发展培训。该计划的总体目标是提供培训经验，使我们的下一代研究人员能够设计和开展复杂的、多层次的、跨学科的研究，重点关注儿童和青少年精神病学面临的紧迫和独特的问题。这些目标将通过以下方式实现：(A)在精神病学、心理学、神经病学、儿科、放射学、遗传学和神经科学方面具有杰出研究背景的杰出教员的合作和指导；(B)从多学科角度设计、实施和传播应用研究的第一手指导研究经验；(C)为学员量身定做的教学课程和研讨会；以及(D)重视职业发展。在该项目11年的历史中，项目主任和附属教员在培训多产的临床研究人员方面取得了相当大的成功。自上一次更新该项目以来，我们吸引了优秀的申请者，包括来自斯坦福体系以外的个人和代表性不足的少数族裔；填补了所有资助名额；在培训期间保留了博士后研究员；并成功地为他们作为独立调查人员的职业生涯做好了准备。该计划的成功从很大比例的受训人员身上得到了证明，他们通过发表出版物、独立资助以及学术任命和晋升的良好记录，在学术生涯中展示了实质性的成就。截至2004年5月，在完成T32项目的16名学员中，100%的人在同行评议的科学期刊上发表了文章，88%的人获得了外部研究资金，75%的人担任了涉及临床研究的学术职位。我们目前的受训人员继续进行类似的富有成效的课程，即发表期刊和资助外部研究。2004年的实习生调查进一步证明了该方案的成功，该调查显示，自2000年上次更新以来，对方案内容的总体满意度很高，而且在培训方案的大部分方面都有了重大改进。在下一个授权期，我们将进一步加强和改进这一非常成功的T32计划。我们的计划旨在招募有才华的、文化多元化的MD常驻申请者和博士后研究员，并培训他们从多学科、多层次的科学视角来处理儿童和青少年精神病学的关键研究问题，反映出PI在斯坦福大学非常成功的研究计划。考虑到该项目在过去一段时间里的受欢迎程度、成功和改进，我们建议每年增加2名学员。因此，在下一个赠款期间，请拨资金招聘和培训6名T32研究人员、3名医学博士或医学博士和3名博士。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is a competing renewal for a highly successful T32 post-doctoral training program in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford University under the direction of Dr. Allan L. Reiss: T32MH19908. Training for Child Psychiatry and Child Development. The overarching aim of this program is to provide training experiences that will permit our next generation of researchers to design and carry out sophisticated, multi-level, cross-disciplinary research focused on the pressing and unique problems facing child and adolescent psychiatry. These goals will be accomplished through (a) the collaboration and mentoring of an outstanding faculty with distinguished research backgrounds in Psychiatry, Psychology, Neurology, Pediatrics, Radiology, Genetics and Neurosciences; (b) first-hand mentored research experience in designing, implementing, and disseminating applied research from a multidisciplinary perspective; (c) trainee-tailored didactic coursework and seminars; and (d) emphasis on career development. Over the 11-year history of the program, the Program Director and affiliated faculty have had considerable success in training productive clinical researchers. Since the last renewal of the program, we have attracted outstanding applicants, including individuals from outside the Stanford system and underrepresented minorities; filled all funded slots; retained postdoctoral fellows for the duration of their training periods; and successfully prepared them for careers as independent investigators. The program's success is evidenced by the large proportion of trainees who have demonstrated substantive accomplishments in their academic careers through a strong record of publications, independent funding, and academic appointments and promotions. Of the 16 trainees who completed the T32 program as of May 2004, 100% have published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, 88% have received external research funding, and 75% have assumed an academic position that involves clinical research. Our current trainees continue on a similar productive course of journal publications and external research funding. Further evidence of the program's success was demonstrated through a 2004 trainee survey, which showed an overall high satisfaction with program elements and significant improvements in most aspects of the training program since the last renewal in 2000. In the next grant period, we will further enhance and improve upon this highly successful T32 program. Our program aims are to recruit talented and culturally diverse MD resident applicants and PhD postdoctoral fellows, and train them to approach critical research issues in child and adolescent psychiatry from a multidisciplinary, multi-level scientific perspective reflective of the Pi's highly successful research program at Stanford. Considering the program's popularity, successes and improvements over the past period, we propose to add 2 additional trainees per year. Accordingly, for the next grant period, funds are requested to recruit and train 6 T32 research fellows, 3 MD's or MD/PhD's and 3 PhD's.