Educating Physician Scientists in Psychiatry (EPSP): Firing up the next generation of translational and clinical neuroscientists

项目摘要 培训精神病学内科科学家(EPSP)的目的是建立住院医师研究 训练赛道。我们的目标是招募有重要研究经验的医学毕业生进入 利用宾夕法尼亚大学的丰富资源从事基础、翻译或临床神经科学研究 神经科学环境。EPSP将以三项原则为指导：以指导为中心 为了研究成功，迫切需要招募最好的受训人员，并注意多样性，以及 严格和合乎道德的培训的重要性。该计划提供了更多的 住院医师培训期间的受保护研究时间从第一年的10%开始，最终达到 在符合ACGME要求的情况下，在第四季度和去年达到70%。同时，EPSP 为“正式”研究教育提供越来越多的时间，包括两门必修课 以及多个选修课、研讨会、工作坊和杂志俱乐部。这种结构允许 每个学员都有个性化的体验。最后，在过去的两年里，实习生将拥有 获得试点资金的机会，提供最终的实践体验：来自研究 从设计到数据收集，再到分析和准备出版或演示。 总之，这种培训环境将加速向独立职业的过渡 医生、科学家、精神病学家。重要的是，EPSP强调在 年轻内科科学家的成功意味着PI和项目主任将拥有 为学员提供大量指导时间，以密切监控进度并跟踪指导者- 被辅导者关系。在细心的指导下获得了额外的研究经验， 学员将准备好应对精神病学面临的复杂科学挑战。

Project Abstract Educating Physician Scientists in Psychiatry (EPSP) aims to establish a residency research training track. Our goal is to recruit medical graduates with significant research experience into careers in basic, translational or clinical neuroscience research by capitalizing on Penn’s rich neuroscience environment. EPSP will be guided by three principles: the centrality of mentorship to research success, the critical need to recruit the best trainees with attention to diversity, and the importance of training that is both rigorous and ethical. The program provides increasing protected research time during residency training starting with 10% time in year 1, culminating in 70% in the 4th and last year, while meeting ACGME requirements. Simultaneously, EPSP provides increasing time for “formal” research education, comprised of both required courses and multiple optional classes, seminars, workshops, and journal clubs. This structure permits each trainee a personalized experience. Finally, in the last two years, trainees will have the opportunity to obtain pilot funding, providing the ultimate hands-on experience: from research design to data collection, and to analysis and preparation for publication or presentation. Together, this training environment will accelerate the transition to careers as independent physician scientist psychiatrists. Importantly, EPSP’s emphasis on the primacy of mentoring in the success of young physician scientists means that the PIs and Program Director will have significant mentoring time with the trainees to closely monitor progress and track the mentor- mentee relationship. Having garnered extra research experience under attentive mentoring, trainees will be prepared to tackle the complex scientific challenges facing psychiatry.