Research Training in Functional Disability Interventions

描述(申请人提供)：耶鲁大学医学院精神病学系要求首次续签为期5年的博士后研究培训补助金，用于治疗、康复和预防严重精神障碍的干预和服务研究。这笔赠款每年总共资助2名内科医生和2名博士心理学家。博士后实习生在耶鲁接受两到三年的临床和研究培训，同时接受教职调查人员的指导，这些调查人员的兴趣包括神经科学、认知和职业康复、早期干预、流行病学和卫生服务研究。我们的多学科计划使受训人员能够从事来自试验的研究，这些试验是关于在卫生系统中进行有效性研究的有前景的新方法。这项提议的主要目的是为博士后实习生提供机会，让他们全身心地学习成为独立研究人员和临床科学家所需的技能。未来的学员确定一位教师导师，并制定一项拟议的培训计划，作为申请程序的一部分。在培训期间，学员参加关于卫生服务研究、神经科学、生物统计学、研究设计、翻译研究和负责任的科学研究的研讨会和课程。他们参加了IRB的指导轮换。直接参与社区环境，刺激尖端神经科学，接触国家、国家和国际层面的系统问题，以及研究方法的强化培训，都提供了丰富的经验，鼓励学员进行原创研究。项目包括精神病的早期发现、康复过程、儿童精神科服务模式的改变、聋人和听障人士的心理健康服务、药物滥用治疗中的认知补救，以及精神分裂症认知再培训的功能磁共振评估。在教师导师的指导下，学员从最初的概念化和设计，到实施、数据分析和手稿准备，获得了临床研究的经验。四名研究员已完成培训，四名目前正在接受培训。毕业生继续他们的独立研究，在领先的医学中心任教。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine requests the first renewal of a 5 year post-doctoral research training grant for intervention and services research in treatment, rehabilitation, and prevention of severe mental disorders. This grant provides support for a total of 2 physicians and 2 Ph.D. psychologists per year. Post-doctoral trainees spend two to three years at Yale to obtain clinical and research training while being mentored by faculty investigators whose interests include neuroscience, cognitive and vocational rehabilitation, early intervention, epidemiology and health services research. Our multi-disciplinary program enables trainees to engage in research from trials on promising new approaches to effectiveness studies in health systems. The main purpose of this proposal is to provide post-doctoral trainees the opportunity to devote full-time effort to learning the skills needed to become independent researchers and clinician scientists. Prospective trainees identify a faculty mentor and develop a proposed training plan as part of the application procedure. During the training program, trainees participate in seminars and courses on health services research, neuroscience, biostatistics, research design, translational research and responsible conduct of scientific research. They participate in a mentored rotation on the IRB. Direct involvement in community settings, stimulation of cutting-edge neuroscience, exposure to systems issues at a state, national, and international level, and intensive training in research methods provide a rich experience that encourages trainees to generate original research. Projects have included such topics as early detection of psychosis, the recovery process, changing patterns of child psychiatric services, mental health services for the deaf and hearing impaired, cognitive remediation in substance abuse treatment, and fMRI assessment of cognitive retraining in schizophrenia. Under faculty mentors, trainees gain experience in clinical research, from initial conceptualization and design, through implementation, data analysis and manuscript preparation. Four fellows have completed their training and four are currently in training. Graduates have continued their independent research as faculty at leading medical centers.