Mental Health Biostatistics Training

描述(由申请人提供)：华盛顿大学生物统计学系与精神病学和行为科学系联合，提议更新生物统计学的博士前培训计划，强调心理健康的应用。学员将攻读生物统计学系的博士学位。该培训项目将由生物统计学系教授周晓华(Andrew)博士和精神病学与行为科学系教授Wayne Katon医学博士共同指导。周博士将为培训项目提供监督和指导，他将担任生物统计主任，卡顿博士将担任精神科医生 卫生局局长。与心理健康生物统计学培训计划相关的教员包括来自生物统计学、精神病学和行为科学系、心理学、卫生服务部、医学系和流行病学系的生物统计学和心理健康讲师。生物统计学讲师将向学员提供方法和其他统计建议，而精神健康讲师将向学员提供与研究项目有关的建议。除了由国际专家讲授的生物统计学和统计学方法的正式课程外，培训方案还包括以下方式为学员提供心理健康内容培训：(1)从精神病学和行为科学系、心理学和流行病学系的12门选修课中选择关于心理健康的正式课程(必须选择两门才能获得奖学金)，(2)在每周的心理健康研究和生物统计学研讨会和年度心理健康生物统计研讨会上与精神健康导师和精神健康研究员互动，(3)在相关研究项目中与一名精神健康导师一起担任研究助理，(4)定期与主任和副主任会面，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每周的大型查房。

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.