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针对药物滥用的临床和转化性研究。然而，很少有学术机构实施全面的努力，以刺激和准备博士前水平的个人从事面向临床的药物滥用研究。纽约大学医学院(NYU SOM)及其合作伙伴建议扩大和提高为医学、护理和牙科专业学生开发的药物滥用研究培训计划的覆盖范围和影响。该计划目前已进入第五个年头，目的是激发参与者对从事药物滥用研究事业的兴趣。使用学习者指导的交互式计算机教育技术，我们开发了灵活和内容丰富的物质滥用研究教育和培训(SARET)计划，以教育健康专业学生关于成瘾和临床研究的基础。一部分学习者在参与本课程的激励下，参加了一个为期一年的暑期项目，该项目的核心是在经验丰富的导师的指导下进行与药物滥用相关的密集研究经验，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、精神病学系和教育信息学系)、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。我们的合作成功地建立在我们在制定和评估卫生专业教育和药物滥用研究和培训的创新方法方面的广泛经验的基础上。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计划，将其整合到我们学校的课程中(覆盖1,000多名学生)，并让活跃的学生参与到富有成效的指导暑期和一年的研究体验中。Saret对参与者对药物滥用研究的态度产生了重大的积极影响。我们通过确保课程易于更新、修改和适应不同的教育环境，使Saret可以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，并通过向全国各地的学校和培训机构广泛传播该课程来促进其在全国的影响。我们的首要目标是增加医生、护士、牙医和社会工作者的数量，他们在参与的刺激下，遵循促进药物滥用临床研究的职业道路。 与公共健康相关：尽管药物滥用给社会造成了巨大的损失，但发现新的有效预防和治疗战略的速度只是缓慢的，在将这种知识转化为改善人口健康方面存在重大延误。迫切需要增加在预防和治疗药物滥用方面进行临床适用研究的保健专业人员的数量。因此，这笔赠款的目标是扩大药物滥用研究培训计划的全国影响力，并提高该计划的全国影响力，该计划针对的是医学、护理、牙科和社会工作领域的学生。

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. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Despite the great toll substance abuse takes on society, the pace of discovery of new and effective prevention and treatment strategies is only modest, and major delays exist in translating such knowledge into improved population health. There is an urgent need to increase the number of health care professionals conducting clinically applicable research in substance abuse prevention and treatment. The goal of this grant, therefore, is to expand, and increase the national impact of, a substance abuse research training program targeting students in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry and social work.