Substance Abuse Intervention Outcome Research Training

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的多学科项目旨在培养博士后生物医学，行为，卫生保健和其他公共卫生科学家进行药物滥用干预研究。一个首要目标是提高推进药物滥用治疗研究所需的科学推理技能。从我们的角度来看，此类研究将受益于采用多学科框架（包括干预发生的生物、心理、社会和文化背景）的复杂和充分发展的理论指导下的干预措施。虽然其他机构的培训项目可能涉及干预研究，但这是本项目的主要任务。我们培训项目的显著特点是：跨学科；关于与药物滥用有关的功能障碍的性质，它不包含任何单一的意识形态或理论；它提供早期干预和治疗方面的培训；它为学员提供了高度个性化的机会来开发竞争性的资助申请，并通过这样做，为物质相关功能障碍和治疗的知识库做出贡献。培训经验的结构是提供个性化的研究经验和培训，辅以共同的学术课程，其中分配了20%的研究员培训时间。课程涵盖四个不同的领域：(1)统计/研究方法；(2) grantsmanship;(3)研究中的伦理问题；(4)为期两年的系列正式课程，从不同学科的角度涵盖药物滥用的病因和治疗。我们还采用导师指导下的研究学徒模式。每位研究员的个人研究训练经验来自于他/她的导师同意并由训练委员会审查和批准的计划。该计划主要强调创新治疗开发和临床试验研究方面的培训，其次强调将临床研究转化为服务研究。最近增加了神经生物学和行为遗传学的教学和研究经验，将我们的研究重点从基础研究扩展到临床研究。预计培训时间为两年，但有时我们会将培训时间延长至三年。我们为研究方法培训较少的研究员提供第三年；交叉培训的研究员，例如临床心理学家的行为遗传学培训；R表示每组中需要更多时间来完成成为独立研究者目标的研究员。该项目平均每年招收两名新学员。在任何时候，都可能有四名研究员住在这里。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aim of our multidisciplinary program is to train post-doctoral biomedical, behavioral, health care and other public health scientists to conduct substance abuse intervention research. An overarching goal is to enhance the scientific reasoning skills needed to advance treatment research in drug abuse. From our perspective such research will benefit from interventions guided by sophisticated and fully-developed theory using a multidisciplinary framework that includes the biological, psychological, social and cultural context in which interventions occur. While other institutional training programs may address intervention research, this is the primary mission for this program. Distinctive features of our training program are: that it is interdisciplinary; that it embraces no single ideology or theory concerning the nature of dysfunctions related to drug abuse; that it provides training in early intervention and treatment along a continuum; and that it provides trainees with highly individualized opportunities to develop competitive grant applications and by doing so, contribute to the knowledge base of substance-related dysfunction and treatment. The training experience is structured to provide individualized research experience and training, complemented by a common academic curriculum to which 20% of fellows' training time is allocated. Four distinct areas are covered in the curriculum: (1) statistics/research methodology; (2) grantsmanship; (3) ethical issues in research; and (4) a two-year series of formal courses covering the etiology and treatment of substance abuse from varying disciplinary perspectives. We also subscribe to a research apprenticeship model under the guidance of the mentor. Each fellow's individual research training experience emerges from a plan developed by the fellow, agreed to by his/her mentors, and reviewed and approved by the Training Committee. The program has a primary emphasis on training in innovative treatment development and clinical trials research with a secondary emphasis on the translation of clinical research into services research. The recent addition of neurobiology and behavioral genetics didactic and research experiences expands our focus of translational research from basic to clinical research. The expected training program duration is two years but on occasion we extend this training period to three years. We offer 3rd years for fellows with less extensive training in research methods; fellows who are cross- training, e.g. training in Behavioral Genetics for a clinical psychologist; r for fellows in each cohort who need more time to accomplish their goals of becoming independent investigators. The program accepts on average two new fellows per year. At any given time there are likely to be four fellows in residence.