Building Research across Interdisciplinary Gaps (BRIDG) T90/R90 Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：我们将开发T90/R90跨学科差距（BRIDG） CAM临床研究培训计划，这是华盛顿大学（UW） CTSA计划，华盛顿州西雅图转化健康科学研究所（ITHS）和俄勒冈州波特兰国家自然医学院（NCNM）之间的合作伙伴关系。在项目主管博士的带领下。Cathryn Booth-LaForce （UW）和Heather Zwickey (NCNM)， BRIDG博士后项目的主要目标是培养有前途的研究人员，将临床CAM概念转化为可测试的多学科研究假设，并将转化研究方法应用于CAM导向的研究。BRIDG计划的T90部分将为具有竞争力的CAM培训临床医生提供基础和高级CAM临床研究的教学培训模块，包括现有的iths赞助课程和涵盖各种研究方法的新模块；再加上由华盛顿大学资助的研究人员指导的动手临床研究经验。BRIDG计划的R90部分将为有竞争力的传统训练的研究人员提供综合健康学科实践方面的培训和指导，包括自然疗法、中医（CCM）、草药和身心疗法。R90名参与者将参加临床见习；实施试点临床研究，为资助提案收集初步数据，并在高级CAM临床研究研讨会和讲习班期间与T90学员共同培训，以促进合作并学习更具体的CAM研究方法。bridge项目计划每年资助3名R90参与者和3名T90学员。资助期限为2年或3年，视乎个别人士的研究及培训需要及过往经验而定。bridge项目的具体目标是：1。在研究密集型的华盛顿大学，为有前途的cam培训的临床医生提供临床研究培训，包括实践研究经验，指导和临床研究方法的教学培训；2. 在CAM密集的NCNM，提供有前途的传统训练的研究人员，他们对协同CAM临床研究感兴趣，并具有CAM临床实践经验，包括实践临床经验，指导和综合临床健康学科的教学培训；3. 运用创新的在线和远程教育方法来提供、保存和传播bridge项目的培训材料；和4。根据个人、部门和机构的成功指标评估bridge项目，以不断改进项目。bridge项目的成果将是一批经过交叉训练的临床CAM研究专家，他们准备为公众日益增长的对CAM高质量信息的需求贡献知识；面向协同远程学习的CAM临床研究教育培训模式以及bridge教学研讨会和讲习班的数字档案，可供其他感兴趣的人士查阅和分发。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We will develop the T90/R90 Building Research across Inter-Disciplinary Gaps (BRIDG) CAM Clinical Research Training Program, a partnership between the University of Washington (UW) CTSA program, the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) in Seattle, WA, and the National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) in Portland, OR. Led by Program Directors Drs. Cathryn Booth-LaForce (UW) and Heather Zwickey (NCNM), the primary goal of the postdoctoral BRIDG program is to train promising investigators to translate clinical CAM concepts into testable, multi-disciplinary research hypotheses along the Clinical and Translational Research Spectrum and apply translational research methods to CAM-oriented research. The T90 component of the BRIDG program will provide competitive CAM-trained clinicians with didactic training modules in Basic and Advanced CAM Clinical Research including existing ITHS-sponsored courses and new modules covering a variety of research methods; plus hands-on, clinical research experiences mentored by funded investigators from the UW. The R90 component of the BRIDG program will provide competitive conventionally trained researchers with training and mentorship in the practices of integrative health disciplines, including naturopathy, Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM), herbal medicine, and mind and body therapies. R90 participants will participate in clinical clerkships; implement pilot clinical research to collect preliminary data toward grant proposals, and co-train with T90 trainees during the Advanced CAM Clinical Research seminars and workshops in order to foster collaboration and learn methods more specific to CAM research. The BRIDG Program plans to fund 3 R90 participants and 3 T90 trainees per year. Funding will be provided for either 2 or 3 years per individual, depending on their specific research and training needs and prior experience. The Specific Aims of the BRIDG program are to: 1. Provide promising CAM-trained clinicians with clinical research training at the research-intensive UW, including hands-on research experience, mentorship and didactic training in clinical research methodologies; 2. Provide promising conventionally trained researchers interested in collaborative CAM clinical research with experience in CAM clinical practices at the CAM- intensive NCNM, including hands-on clinical experiences, mentorship and didactic training in integrative clinical health disciplines; 3. Apply innovative online and distance education approaches to deliver, preserve and disseminate the BRIDG program training materials; and 4. Evaluate the BRIDG program on individual, departmental and institutional metrics of success in order to continually improve the program. The products of the BRIDG program will be a cadre of cross-trained clinical CAM research experts prepared to contribute knowledge in response the public's growing need for quality information on CAM; a collaborative distance learning-oriented training model for CAM clinical research education; and a digital archive of the BRIDG didactic seminars and workshops that can be made accessible and disseminated to other interested parties.