Alcohol Intervention Treatment Outcome Research Training

描述(由申请者提供)：我们的多学科项目的目标是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，以进行酒精滥用和酒精中毒的治疗和早期干预的研究。一个首要目标是提高推进酒精滥用治疗研究所需的科学推理技能。从我们的角度来看，这类研究将受益于由复杂和充分发展的理论指导的干预措施，该理论使用多学科框架，其中包括干预发生的生物、心理、社会和文化背景。虽然其他机构培训计划可能涉及治疗/早期干预研究，但这是该计划的主要任务。我们培训计划的显著特点是：它是跨学科的；它不包含与酒精或药物滥用有关的功能障碍的性质的单一意识形态或理论；它提供连续的早期干预和治疗培训；它为受训者提供高度个性化的机会，以开发竞争性的赠款申请，并通过这样做，促进与酒精相关的功能障碍的知识库。培训经验的结构是为了提供个性化的研究经验和培训，并辅之以分配20%研究员培训时间的共同学术课程。课程包括四个不同的领域：(1)统计/研究方法；(2)研究方法；(3)研究中的伦理问题；(4)为期两年的酒精专题系列研讨会。我们在导师的指导下订阅了一个研究学徒模式。该研究员的个人研究培训经验来自该研究员制定的计划，并得到他/她的导师的同意。该计划主要强调临床试验方面的培训，其次强调将临床研究转化为服务研究。最近增加的神经生物学和行为遗传学的教学和研究经验，扩大了我们的翻译研究的重点，从基础到临床研究再到传播。预期的培训计划通常为两年，但有时我们会将培训期限延长至三年。我们为在研究方法方面接受较少广泛培训的研究员、交叉培训的研究员，例如临床心理学家的行为遗传学培训，或每个队列中需要更多时间来实现成为独立调查人员的目标的研究员提供3年。该计划平均每年接受4-5名新研究员。在任何给定的时间，都可能有9-10名研究员常驻。

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 research on treatment and early interventions for alcohol abuse and alcoholism. An overarching goal is to enhance the scientific reasoning skills needed to advance treatment research in alcohol 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 treatment/early 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 alcohol or 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 alcohol-related dysfunction. 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 alcohol-specific seminars. We subscribe to a research apprenticeship model under the guidance of the mentor. The fellow's individual research training experience emerges from a plan developed by the fellow and agreed to by his/her mentors. The program has a primary emphasis on training in clinical trials 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 to dissemination. The expected training program is typically 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; or for fellows in each cohort who need more time to accomplish their goals of becoming independent investigators. The program accepts on average 4-5 new fellows per year. At any given time there are likely to be 9-10 fellows in residence.