Postdoctoral Training in Posttraumatic Stress Disorders

描述(由申请人提供)：这是一个为博士后培训项目提供资金的竞争性续展申请，旨在培养有资格在创伤后应激障碍和相关的心理社会后遗症方面担任独立调查人员的临床研究人员。培训项目设在退伍军人管理局波士顿医疗系统，隶属于波士顿大学医学院和哈佛医学院。该研究金位于国家创伤后应激障碍中心行为科学部和妇女健康科学部。它包括三个主要部分：(A)教学/研讨会部分，旨在提供创伤后应激障碍的理论、评估和治疗、研究、研究方法、少数群体和跨文化问题以及负责任的研究行为的基础；(B)在一名或多名初级导师的指导下，侧重于直接研究经验的部分；以及(C)临床部分，旨在在创伤后应激障碍服务提供方面的专家监督下，提供概念和实践方面的掌握。核心教员来自不同的临床科学背景，具有与压力、创伤和健康相关的广泛研究兴趣；与退伍军人管理局波士顿分校和波士顿大学医学院/波士顿医学中心综合体的其他单位和项目的联系为他们提供了额外的培训和研究机会。通过与波士顿难民健康和人权中心以及BUSM的国家儿童创伤应激倡议建立联系，博士后研究员有机会培训和研究不同的创伤暴露人群。该项目的支持教师的选择是为了补充核心教师的技能，并纳入与NIH路线图一致的更广泛的行为和基础临床科学。这些活动的城市环境确保了所服务和研究的人口的民族、种族、社会经济和文化多样性。这一培训方案的教职员工继续致力于招募少数族裔候选人，并为特殊和少数族裔人口提供研究培训。此应用程序提供有关培训计划的目标、性质和成果的详细信息。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a competing continuation application for funding for a postdoctoral training program aimed at producing clinical researchers who are qualified to perform as independent investigators in PTSD and related psychosocial sequelae of traumatization. The training program is housed at VA Boston Healthcare System, affiliated with Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School. The fellowship is located within the National Center for PTSDs Behavioral Science Division and Women's Health Sciences Division. It subsumes three major components: (a) a didactic/seminar component designed to provide foundations in PTSD theory, assessment, and treatment, research, research methodology, minority and cross-cultural issues, and the responsible conduct of research; (b) a component focused on direct research experience under the guidance of one or more primary mentors; and (c) a clinical component designed to offer conceptual and practical mastery with supervision by experts in PTSD service delivery. The core faculty are drawn from varied backgrounds in clinical science with a broad array of research interests related to stress, trauma, and health; affiliations with other units and programs at both the VA Boston and Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center complex afford additional training and research opportunities. Through its affiliation with the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights and the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative at BUSM, opportunities exist for postdoctoral fellows to train and study diverse trauma exposed populations. Support faculty for this program are selected to supplement the skills of core faculty and to incorporate a broader range of behavioral and basic clinical science consistent with the NIH Roadmap. The urban setting for these activities insure ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, and cultural diversity in the populations served and researched. The faculty of this training program continue their commitment to recruit minority candidates and to provide training in research with special and minority populations. This application provides details regarding the objectives, nature, and achievements of the training program to date.