Mental Health Biostatistics Training

描述（由申请人提供）：加入精神病学和行为科学系，生物统计学系在华盛顿大学提出了生物统计学博士前培训计划，强调应用到心理健康的更新。学员将攻读博士学位。生物统计学系的学位。本培训项目将由Xiao-Hua（Andrew）Zhou博士共同指导，生物统计学系教授和医学博士韦恩卡通，精神病学和行为科学系的教授周博士将为培训计划提供监督和指导，他将担任生物统计学主任，而Katon博士将担任心理学主任。 卫生主任。与心理健康培训计划的生物统计学相关的教师包括来自生物统计学，精神病学和行为科学，心理学，卫生服务，医学和流行病学部门的生物统计学和心理健康导师。生物统计学导师将向学员提供方法和其他统计咨询，而心理健康导师将向学员提供与研究项目有关的咨询。除了由国际统计方法专家教授的生物统计学正式课程外，培训计划还包括以下手段，为学员提供心理健康内容的培训：（1）修读精神病学及行为科学系、心理学系及流行病学系的12个选修课程中有关精神健康的正式课程（必须选择两个奖学金），（2）通过与心理健康导师和心理健康研究员在每周心理健康研究和生物统计研讨会和年度心理健康生物统计研讨会互动，（3）在相关研究项目中与心理健康导师之一一起担任研究助理，（4）定期与主任和联合主任会面，讨论心理健康和统计问题，以及（5）定期参加精神病学和行为科学系的每周大圆桌会议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Joining with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington proposes a renewal of the predoctoral training program in biostatistics that emphasizes applications to mental health. The trainees will pursue Ph.D. degrees in the Department of Biostatistics. This training program will be co-directed by Xiao-Hua (Andrew) Zhou, Ph.D., a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, and Wayne Katon, M.D., a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Zhou will provide oversight and direction for the training program, and he will serve as biostatistics director, while Dr. Katon will serve as mental health director. The faculty members associated with the Biostatistics in Mental Health training program include both biostatistics and mental health preceptors from the Departments of Biostatistics, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, Health Services, Medicine, and Epidemiology. The biostatistics preceptors will provide methodological and other statistical advice to trainees while the mental health preceptors will provide research-project related advice to trainees. In addition to formal courses in biostatistics taught by international experts n statistical methods, the training program features the following means to provide trainees with mental health content training:(1) taking formal courses on mental health from a list of 12 elective courses in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology and Epidemiology (two must be selected for the fellowship), (2) by interacting with mental health preceptors and mental health fellows in weekly Mental Health Research and Biostatistics Seminars and yearly Mental Health Biostatistics Symposiums, (3) working as research assistants with one of the mental health preceptors in related research projects, (4) meeting regularly with the Director and Co-director to discuss mental health and statistical issues, and (5) regularly attending weekly grand rounds in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences.