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)将招聘和培训博士后和博士后研究员和短期受训人员，他们的研究涉及CAM实践的流行病学(尤其是在少数族裔中)、植物学内容标准化、使用植物学/饮食/其他治疗方法预防或治疗疾病的安全性和有效性、CAM与传统医学实践的整合以及CAM研究中的新兴方法。这项研究培训计划是必要的，因为有记录表明更多的人正在使用CAM模式，但安全和有效使用这些产品和实践的证据基础落后于传统医学中可用于决策的证据基础。因此，我们必须培训一支研究人员队伍，他们将确立CAM产品和实践的安全性和有效性，同时挑战传统研究方法适当回答该领域复杂问题的能力。密歇根州立大学-PHPCAM研究培训计划将利用与合作伙伴、历史上的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)、少数族裔服务机构(MSI)和非裔美国人公共卫生计划联盟的接触作为主要招聘战略，瞄准接受过CAM培训和传统培训的少数族裔成为CAM研究人员。由于密歇根州立大学是一所HBCU，并在吸引和培训后来做得很好的研究人员方面取得了成功，我们处于战略地位，将在未来进一步取得这一成功。我们的计划还旨在使用密歇根州立大学的几个学科(公共卫生、化学、生物、物理等)和密歇根州立大学以外的合作伙伴(约翰·霍普金斯大学医学院、泰索菲亚康复艺术研究所、美国农业部贝茨维尔人类营养研究中心和马里兰州研究和应用科学联盟)来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什么CAM模式，而且还致力于了解为什么使用这些模式。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，探索自然环境中的CAM/传统医学实践。到目前为止，密歇根州立大学-PHPCAM研究员已经调查了瑜伽与高血压、红茶和脂肪排泄的关系，医生/患者对CAM治疗结果的信念的一致性，更年期妇女的草药和记忆力，植物内容标准化，植物提取物对糖尿病的影响，以及为拨款申请和在同行审查的期刊上发表的试点数据。在接下来的五年里，该方案将培训10名博士后、15名博士后研究员和60名短期受训人员。博士后候选人将被要求提供证明，证明他们获得了国内或国外认可机构的博士、医学博士、医学博士学位或类似的博士学位。博士前考生将完成本科学习计划，无条件录取的GPA为3.0，试用期录取的GPA为2.5。短期实习生将在与CAM研究相关的领域完成相当于两年的本科生学习(成绩良好)。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，从而增加有兴趣和承诺的博士后或博士后研究员的人才库。由于大多数早期慢性病和肥胖症的推荐预防和治疗方法是生活方式/行为改变，这项研究投资可以极大地增加安全有效的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.