Clinical Addiction Research and Education Program

描述（由申请人提供）：响应NIDA申请支持“药物滥用和成瘾研究教育补助金”的请求，本申请寻求资金，以继续，改进和扩大阿尔伯特爱因斯坦医学院（AECOM）及其大学医院Montefiore医学中心的临床成瘾研究和教育（CARE）计划的成就。CARE项目始于2002年，其核心是为对药物滥用研究和临床实践感兴趣的医生提供博士后奖学金项目。CARE项目以AECOM的医学系为基础，并从AECOM的流行病学与人口健康、精神病学与行为科学系、家庭与社会医学系以及其他3个纽约市机构吸引了nida资助的研究导师：纽约医学院城市流行病学研究中心（NYAM）、国家发展研究所特殊人群研究所（NDRI）和康奈尔大学威尔医学院丙型肝炎研究中心。除了提供必要的临床研究培训，使医生为独立的药物滥用研究人员做好准备外，CARE项目的教师还与蒙特菲奥里的主要教育领导人合作，加强对内科和家庭医学住院医生以及AECOM医学院学生的基于证据的药物滥用培训。援外援助项目在其头4年的运作中取得了巨大成功，这次竞争性更新将以这一成功为基础。本项目竞争性更新的具体目标是：1.竞争性更新；继续，改进和扩大CARE奖学金计划的成就，这是一个创新的研究密集型奖学金计划，为内科，家庭医学或精神病学的住院医师提供，并正在寻求将药物滥用研究和临床工作与吸毒者结合起来的职业。2. 继续、改进和扩大CARE教育计划的范围，这是一项针对蒙特菲奥雷医疗中心住院医师和阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦医学院学生的强化住院和门诊药物滥用培训计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In response to NIDA's request for applications to support "Research Education Grants in Drug Abuse and Addiction," this application seeks funding to continue, improve, and expand the accomplishments of the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Program at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) and its University Hospital, Montefiore Medical Center. The centerpiece of the CARE Program, which began in 2002, is a post-doctoral fellowship program for physicians interested in careers in drug abuse research and clinical practice. The CARE Program is based in AECOM's Department of Medicine, and draws additional NIDA-funded research mentors from AECOM's Departments of Epidemiology & Population Health, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, and Family & Social Medicine, as well as from 3 other New York City institutions: the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies at the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), the Institute for Special Populations Research at the National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI), and the Center for the Study of Hepatitis C at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. In addition to providing the clinical research training necessary to prepare physicians for independent careers as drug abuse researchers, CARE Program faculty collaborate with key educational leaders at Montefiore to enhance evidence-based substance abuse training for residents in Internal and Family Medicine, and for AECOM medical students. The CARE Program has been highly successful in its first 4 years of operation, and this competitive renewal will build on that success. The specific aims for the competitive renewal of this program are: 1. To continue, improve, and expand the accomplishments of the CARE Fellowship Program, an innovative research-intensive fellowship program for physicians who have completed residencies in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, or Psychiatry and are seeking careers that combine drug abuse research and clinical work with drug users. 2. To continue, improve, and expand the scope of the CARE Educational Program, an enhanced inpatient and outpatient substance abuse training program for residents at Montefiore Medical Center and students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.