Training in Complementary and Alternative Medical Research

描述（由申请人提供）：患者对广泛的补充和替代医学（CAM）疗法的利用在这个国家最近的历史中处于最高水平，并且还在继续增加。然而，缺乏足够的研究提供准确的信息来阐明和验证辅助生殖疗法的有效性、经济性和安全性。一个成功的医疗系统为患者和医生提供了选择的能力，从最大可能的治疗和预防保健方案中进行选择，这些方案已被证明在医学上有效且具有成本效益。为了继续向这样一个系统迈进，至关重要的是，对CAM治疗方案的整体进行科学验证。这将通过由受过严格研究方法和CAM培训的科学家进行的跨学科和合作研究工作来最迅速和有效地进行。巴斯蒂尔大学，全国领先的CAM培训机构，正在提交这一竞争继续申请，以继续我们成功的博士后和博士前培训计划，为希望在CAM领域成为研究学者和临床研究者的科学家提供服务。在过去的3年里，巴特尔的这一培训项目成功地发展了CAM和对抗疗法机构的研究人员和联合医疗专业人员之间的多学科合作，并培养了8名博士后和18名短期博士前实习生从事CAM相关研究。我们目前建议将这个成功的项目再延长5年，以培养8名博士后（4名理学博士，2名博士和2名医学博士），每人3年，以及30名短期暑期博士生。19名教职员工提供培训机会，他们代表了华盛顿州四家卓越的研究和教育机构。我们汇集了在各自领域具有公认专业知识的导师，他们的背景足够不同，可以提供广泛的培训经验，并且对辅助CAM治疗慢性疾病，特别是癌症、肥胖和2型糖尿病的疗效有共同的兴趣。我们相信，结合这些人的专业知识和承诺，在西雅图最好的研究环境的背景下，创造了一个独特的机会，成功地培养科学家，他们将能够把传统的研究方法应用到cam相关的研究课题上。通过将CAM研究培训集中在一个以培训CAM从业者和研究人员为使命的机构，并加强与主流生物医学研究机构的合作，该申请解决了建立资源和基础设施的关键和战略需求，以允许对CAM模式进行尖端研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Patient utilization of a broad spectrum of Complementary and Alternative Medical (CAM) therapies is at the highest level in the recent history of this country and continues to increase. However, there is a lack of adequate research providing accurate information to illuminate and validate the efficacy, economy, and safety of CAM therapies. A successful medical system provides patients and physicians with the ability to choose from the largest possible armamentarium of therapeutic and preventative health care regimens that have been proven to be both medically efficacious and cost effective. To continue to move toward such a system, it is vitally important that the panoply of CAM therapeutic regimens be validated scientifically. This will proceed most quickly and efficiently with an interdisciplinary and collaborative research effort carried out by scientists trained both in both rigorous research methodology and in CAM. Bastyr University, the nation's leading CAM training institution, is submitting this competing continuation application to continue our successful postdoctoral and predoctoral training program for scientists who desire careers as research scholars and clinical investigators in the field of CAM. Over the past 3 years, this training program at Bastyr has resulted in the successful development of multi-disciplinary collaborations among researchers and allied health professionals at CAM and allopathic institutions, and has trained 8 postdoctoral fellows and 18 short-term predoctoral trainees in CAM-related research. We currently propose to extend this successful program for another 5 years to train an additional 8 postdoctoral fellows (4 ND, 2 PhD and 2 MD) for three years each, and thirty predoctoral students in short term summer positions. Training opportunities are available from 19 faculty members, representing four preeminent research and educational institutions in Washington state. We have assembled mentors with acknowledged expertise in their fields, with divergent enough backgrounds to provide a breadth of training experiences, and with a common interest in the efficacy of CAM in the treatment of chronic disease, particularly cancer, obesity and Type 2 diabetes. We believe that the combined expertise and commitment of these individuals, in the context of the superlative research environment in Seattle, creates a unique opportunity to successfully train scientists who will be able to bring traditional research methods to bear upon CAM-related research topics. By centering CAM research training at an institution with a mission of training CAM practitioners and researchers and enhancing collaborations with mainstream biomedical research institutions, this application addresses a critical and strategic need of building resources and infrastructure to allow for cutting-edge research on CAM modalities.