Substance Abuse Research Education and Training (SARET)

描述（由申请人提供）：显然需要培训更多的卫生保健专业人员，以便对药物滥用者进行临床研究。然而，参与培训保健专业人员的学术机构很少采取协调一致的努力，以激励和培养博士前水平的个人从事面向临床的药物滥用研究工作。纽约大学医学院（NYU SoM）及其合作伙伴提议为医学、护理和牙科学生设计、实施和评估一项药物滥用研究培训方案。这个项目的目的是激发参与者从事药物滥用研究的兴趣。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药物滥用研究教育和培训（SARET）项目，向医学、高级护理和牙科专业的跨学科学生提供有关成瘾和临床研究基础的教育。通过参与本课程，并辅以教师促进的讨论，基于问题的学习会议和研究研讨会，学习者将参与广泛的nida资助的研究机会，并可选择津贴支持，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（普通内科学部、精神科和高等教育系统实验室）、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项目。我们的合作为这一倡议带来了在制定和评估保健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、实施和评估这一创新的、引人入胜的教育平台。SARET方案将易于更新和修订，易于输出到其他卫生专业学校和培训方案，并有效地增加医生、护士和牙医的人数，他们在参与这一倡议的激励下，将走上促进与药物滥用有关的临床研究的职业道路。尽管药物滥用给社会造成巨大损失，但发现新的有效预防和治疗战略的步伐非常缓慢，而且在将这些知识转化为改善人口健康方面存在严重延误。迫切需要增加在药物滥用预防和治疗方面进行临床适用研究的保健专业人员的数量。因此，这项赠款的目标是制定、实施和评价一个基于网络的课程，并辅以有指导的研究机会，这将激励医学、护理和牙科学生走上促进药物滥用临床研究的职业道路。

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.