Training Researchers in Clinical Integrative Medicine (TRIM)

描述（由申请人提供）：美国人广泛使用包括冥想、瑜伽、太极、按摩和其他做法在内的中西医结合方法，希望获得健康益处。然而，这些做法对健康影响的证据有很大的局限性。“中西医结合研究培训”（TRIM）奖学金的目标是培训博士后行为和社会科学家、医生和其他合格的卫生专业人员，以设计和开展严格的中西医结合和中西医结合临床和转化研究。该项目设在加州大学旧金山分校医学院的Osher综合医学中心（OCIM）。在目前的更新中，我们详细介绍了该计划的基本原理和迄今为止的进展，并根据我们前五年的经验提出了一项改进计划。我们建议的一个关键变化是扩大培训计划，在目前的四个博士后职位之外，包括两个博士预科职位。TRIM项目提供：一个跨学科的临床和研究环境；由经验丰富、多元化的研究团队提供强有力的指导；在生物学和心理学研究方法方面进行高级培训，以支持中西医结合的临床研究；临床研究方法方面的严格培训，特别关注与综合医学研究特别相关的问题；进行原创性研究的机会；科研伦理培训；接触不同的综合方法来治疗病人，涉及所有年龄组，从幼儿到老年病人。TRIM跨学科的师资队伍有12名核心成员和8名附属成员，分别代表内科、家庭医学、心理学、人类学、生物统计学、精神神经内分泌学、妇女健康、儿科学、卫生服务研究、医学伦理学和精神病学。此外，培训计划的一个主要优势是临床咨询教师，他们可以就受训者可能想要学习的特定综合医学方法提供技术援助和咨询。TRIM教师提供必要和可选的学术活动，根据每个学员的个人学习目标量身定制，并致力于成为学员的积极导师。TRIM计划将装备新一代的研究人员，以扩大我们的知识库，了解综合医学方法如何以及是否适用于特定的健康状况。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Integrative medicine approaches, including meditation, yoga, tai chi, massage, and other practices are widely used by Americans in the hope of obtaining health benefits. Evidence for the health effects of these practices, however, has important limitations. The goal of the fellowship, "Training for Research in Integrative Medicine" (TRIM), is to train post-doctoral behavioral and social scientists, physicians, and other qualified health professionals to design and conduct rigorous clinical and translational research in CAM and integrative medicine. The program is based at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine (OCIM) within the UCSF School of Medicine. In the present renewal, we detail the rationale for the program and our progress to date, and we propose a program incorporating improvements based on our experience in the first five years. A key change we propose is to expand the training program to include two predoctoral positions in addition to the current four post-doctoral positions. The TRIM program provides: an interdisciplinary clinical and research environment; strong mentoring by an experienced and diverse research faculty; advanced training in biological and psychological research methodologies to support clinical research in integrative medicine; rigorous training in clinical research methodologies, with special attention to issues that are particularly relevant to integrative medicine research; opportunity to conduct original research; training in research ethics; and exposure to diverse integrative approaches to patient care involving all age groups from early childhood through geriatric patients. The TRIM interdisciplinary faculty has twelve core and eight affiliated members representing internal medicine, family medicine, psychology, anthropology, biostatistics, psychoneuroendocrinology, women's health, pediatrics, health services research, medical ethics, and psychiatry. In addition, a major strength of the training program is the clinical advisory faculty who are available to provide technical assistance and consultation on specific integrative medicine approaches that trainees might want to study. TRIM faculty provide required and optional academic activities that are tailored to each trainee's individual learning objectives and are committed to being active mentors to trainees. The TRIM program will equip a new generation of researchers to expand our knowledge-base about how and whether integrative medicine approaches work for specific health conditions.