Substance Abuse Research Education and Training (SARET)

说明(由申请人提供)：显然有必要培训更多的卫生保健专业人员进行药物滥用的临床研究。然而，很少有参与培训卫生专业人员的学术机构采取协调一致的努力，刺激博士前水平的个人从事面向临床的药物滥用研究，并为其做好准备。纽约大学医学院(NYU Som)及其合作伙伴提议为医学、护理和牙科专业的学生设计、实施和评估药物滥用研究培训计划。该计划的目的是激发参与者在药物滥用研究方面追求职业生涯的兴趣。利用我们为其他培训项目开发的高度互动的基于计算机的教育技术，我们将创建一个灵活且内容丰富的物质滥用研究教育和培训(SARET)计划，以教育医学、高级护理和牙科学生有关成瘾和临床研究基础的跨学科群体。学习者的动机是参与本课程，辅以教员推动的讨论、以问题为基础的学习课程和研究研讨会，然后将为学习者提供广泛的NIDA资助的研究机会，并提供津贴支持选项，促进与经验丰富的导师的研究参与。SARET项目将是纽约大学医学院(普通内科、精神病学系和高级教育系统实验室)、纽约大学护理学院和纽约大学牙科学院之间的跨学科合作。我们的合作为这一倡议带来了在开发和评估卫生专业教育的创新方法以及药物滥用研究和培训方面的丰富经验。我们将与我们的研究、教育和临床合作伙伴(包括NIDA CTN节点和贝尔维尤医院中心)密切合作，开发、实施和评估这个创新的、引人入胜的教育平台。SARET计划将易于更新和修改，很容易输出到其他卫生专业学校和培训计划，并有效地增加医生、护士和牙医的数量，这些医生、护士和牙医在参与这一计划的激励下，将遵循促进与药物滥用相关的临床研究的职业道路。尽管药物滥用给社会造成了巨大的损失，但发现新的有效的预防和治疗战略的速度只是缓慢的，在将这种知识转化为改善人口健康方面存在重大延误。迫切需要增加在预防和治疗药物滥用方面进行临床适用研究的保健专业人员的数量。因此，这笔赠款的目标是开发、实施和评估一个以网络为基础的课程，并辅之以指导研究机会，以激励医学、护理和牙科学生走上职业道路，促进针对药物滥用的临床研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a clear need to train greater numbers of health care professionals in the conduct of clinical research with drug abusers. Yet few academic institutions involved in training health professionals have implemented coordinated efforts to stimulate and prepare individuals at the pre-doctoral level for careers in clinically oriented substance abuse research. The New York University School of Medicine (NYU SoM) and its collaborating partners propose to design, implement and evaluate a substance abuse research training program for medical, nursing and dental students. The purpose of this program is to stimulate participants' interest in pursuing careers in drug abuse research. Using highly interactive computer based educational technology we have developed for other training programs, we will create a flexible and content-rich Substance Abuse Research Education and Training (SARET) program to educate an interdisciplinary group of medical, advanced nursing and dental students about addiction and the fundamentals of clinical research. Learners, motivated by their participation in this curriculum, and supplemented by a faculty-facilitated discussion, problem-based learning sessions and research seminars, will then be offered participation in a broad range of NIDA-funded research opportunities, with options for stipend support, fostering research engagement with a seasoned mentor. The SARET program will be an interdisciplinary collaboration between the NYU School of Medicine (Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, and Advanced Educational Systems Laboratory), NYU's College of Nursing, and NYU's College of Dentistry. Our collaboration brings to this initiative extensive experience in developing and evaluating innovative approaches to health professional education and in substance abuse research and training. Working closely with our research, education and clinical partners (including a NIDA CTN node and Bellevue Hospital Center), we will develop, implement and evaluate this innovative and engaging educational platform. The SARET program will be simple to update and revise, easily exportable to other health professional schools and training programs, and effective in increasing the number of physicians, nurses and dentists who, stimulated by their participation in this initiative, will follow career paths that advance substance abuse-related clinical research. Despite the great toll substance abuse takes on society, the pace of discovery of new and effective prevention and treatment strategies is only modest, and major delays exist in translating such knowledge into improved population health. There is an urgent need to increase the number of health care professionals conducting clinically applicable research in substance abuse prevention and treatment. The goal of this grant, therefore, is to develop, implement and evaluate a web-based curriculum, supplemented by mentored research opportunities, that will stimulate medical, nursing and dental students to follow career paths that advance clinically-oriented research on substance abuse.