Post-Doctoral Training in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research

 描述(由申请人提供)：该项目自1995年以来提供了关于智力和发育障碍(IDD)的行为和生物行为研究的跨学科博士后培训，重点是社会情感、沟通和家庭过程。我们已经招收并“毕业”了35名博士后研究员，其中24人在美国各地的大学担任教职，其他几乎所有人都获得了该领域的研究相关职位。该培训计划位于威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校韦斯曼中心的RCH培训环境中，并完全融入其中，该中心是一个多学科翻译研究中心，其中包括由NICHD资助的智力和发育障碍研究中心、90多项NIH研究拨款，以及一个蓬勃发展的临床计划，每年为3500名患者提供服务。培训计划的总体目的是提供由计划教员提供的密集指导和一系列强有力的研讨会，使受训人员获得关于人类发育和发育障碍的广泛知识基础，并为从事和推进缺碘科学研究的独立职业做好准备。该计划有三个具体目标：1.为博士后实习生提供知识基础和研究方法，以产生有关IDD的社会、沟通和家庭方面的新知识。2.提供广泛的培训，使受训者接触到各种理论观点、方法方法、实质性领域、发展阶段和翻译科学观点。3.为学员提供坚实的基础 开展IDD研究的成功职业所必需的道德和职业发展。对这一计划的支持将确保下一代科学家接受广泛的培训，以确保通过各种理论观点、方法方法、实质性领域、发展阶段和转化科学/公共卫生观点，在理解和治疗IDD方面继续取得进展。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This program has provided interdisciplinary post-doctoral training in behavioral and biobehavioral research on intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) since 1995, with an emphasis on social-affective, communicative, and family processes. We have enrolled and "graduated" 35 post-doctoral fellows, of whom 24 occupy faculty positions at universities across the US and almost all others have obtained research-related positions in the field. The training program is housed at, and fully integrated into, the rch training environment of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Waisman Center, a multidisciplinary translational research center that includes an NICHD-funded Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, over 90 NIH research grants, and a thriving clinical program serving 3500 patients/yr. The overall purpose of the training program is to provide intensive mentoring by program faculty and a robust series of seminars, so that trainees gain a broad base of knowledge about human development and developmental disabilities and are prepared for independent careers engaged in and advancing scientific research on IDD. The program has three Specific Aims: 1. To provide post-doctoral trainees with the knowledge base and research methods to generate new knowledge about social, communicative, and family components of IDD. 2. To provide broad training in which we expose trainees to various theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, substantive areas, developmental periods, and a translational science perspective. 3. To provide trainees with a solid foundation in ethics and professional development necessary to launch successful careers carrying out research on IDD. Support for this program will ensure that a next generation of scientists receives broad training to ensure continued advances in understanding and treating IDD conditions through various theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, substantive areas, developmental periods, and a translational science/public health perspective.