Substance Abuse Research Education and Training (SARET).

描述（由申请人提供）：迫切需要更多的卫生专业人员从事处理药物滥用的临床和转化研究。然而，很少有学术机构实施了全面的努力，以激励和培养博士前水平的个人从事临床导向的药物滥用研究。纽约大学医学院（NYU SoM）及其合作伙伴提议扩大和增加为医学、护理和牙科学生制定的药物滥用研究培训方案的范围和影响。这个项目现在已经进入第五个年头，其目的是激发参与者从事药物滥用研究的兴趣。使用以学习者为导向的交互式计算机教育技术，我们开发了灵活且内容丰富的药物滥用研究教育和培训（SARET）计划，以教育健康专业学生有关成瘾和临床研究的基础知识。一部分学习者在参与本课程的激励下，与经验丰富的导师一起参加一个为期一个暑假的项目，该项目以密集的药物滥用相关研究经验为中心，旨在激发对该领域的持久兴趣。SARET项目是纽约大学医学院（普通内科学部、精神病学学部和教育信息学学部）、纽约大学护理学院和纽约大学牙科学院之间的跨专业合作。我们在制定和评价卫生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，使我们的合作取得了成功。我们与我们的研究、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、实施和评估了这一创新项目，将其纳入我们学校的课程（覆盖了1000多名学生），并让活跃的学生参与到富有成效的暑期和一年的研究经验中。SARET对参与者对药物滥用研究的态度产生了显著的积极影响。通过确保课程易于更新、修改和适应不同的教育环境，我们已使SARET可输出到其他卫生专业学校和培训项目。我们现在准备进入SARET倡议的第二“阶段”，将目标受众扩大到包括社会工作专业的学生，并通过在全国各地的学校和培训机构广泛传播课程来促进课程的全国影响。我们的首要目标是增加医生、护士、牙医和社会工作者的人数，他们在参与的激励下，走上促进药物滥用临床导向研究的职业道路。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is compelling need for greater numbers of health professionals to be engaged in conducting clinical and translational research addressing substance abuse. Yet few academic institutions have implemented comprehensive 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 expand and increase the reach and impact of a substance abuse research training program developed for medical, nursing and dental students. The purpose of this program, now entering its fifth year, is to stimulate participants' interest in pursuing careers in drug abuse research. Using learner-directed interactive computer- based educational technology, we have developed the flexible and content-rich Substance Abuse Research Education and Training (SARET) program to educate health professional students about addiction and the fundamentals of clinical research. A subset of learners, motivated by participation in this curriculum, participate in a summer-long program centered on an intensive substance abuse-related research experience with a seasoned mentor, aimed at stimulating enduring interest in this field. The SARET program is an interprofessional collaboration between the NYU School of Medicine (Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, and Division of Educational Informatics), NYU College of Nursing, and NYU College of Dentistry. Our collaboration has built successfully on our 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 have developed, implemented and evaluated this innovative program, integrated it into our schools' curricula (reaching over 1,000 students), and engaged activated students in productive mentored summer and year-long research experiences. SARET has had a significant positive impact on participants' attitudes towards substance abuse research. We have made SARET exportable to other health professional schools and training programs by ensuring that the curriculum is simple to update, revise, and adapt for use in diverse educational settings. We are now poised to enter the second "phase" of the SARET initiative by expanding the target audience to include social work students and fostering the curriculum's national impact by disseminating it broadly to schools and training institutions across the country. Our overarching goal is to increase the number of physicians, nurses, dentists and social workers who, stimulated by participation, follow career paths that advance clinically-oriented research on substance abuse.