Occupational Health Psychology Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：康涅狄格大学（UConn）的职业健康心理学研究生培训计划（OHP）招募工业/组织心理学，护理学，公共卫生以及职业和环境医学方面合格的研究生，进行职业健康心理学（OHP）的专业培训。培训目标是让这些被选中的学生在进行多学科研究方面变得非常精通，从而有利于工人的健康和安全。在过去的六年里，康涅狄格大学平均每年从NIOSH获得约6万美元，用于培训这些博士级研究人员。受训者学习如何为职业健康和安全办公室知识库作出贡献，并在发现或实施维护和促进工人健康和安全的新方法方面具有很强的能力。培训计划遵循科学家-实践者模式，受训者必须完成规定课程的12学分，在OHP教师的监督下完成3学分的应用领域或实验室研究，硕士和论文水平的研究，并参加教师研究实验室。所有受训者都要完成一个研究生研修班，包括行为科学、人体工程学和流行病学的原理，并要求制定一份多学科研究计划，由OHP的核心教员和医学院的一名流行病学家授课。此外，学员还完成一门必修的流行病学课程和两门心理学和/或公共卫生研究生选修课程，这些课程涵盖人事/组织心理学、人因学/人体工程学或公共卫生。课程内容和应用研究培训相结合的目的不仅是使学员掌握解决当今职业健康问题的必要技能，而且使他们能够介绍工作组织和工作场所设计的新概念，这些概念可以通过积极主动的工作场所干预措施来提高工人的安全、健康和生产力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Graduate Training Program in Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) at the University of Connecticut (UConn) recruits qualified graduate students in industrial/organizational psychology, nursing, public health, and occupational and environmental medicine for specialized training in occupational health psychology (OHP). The training goal is for these select students to become highly proficient at conducting multi-disciplinary research to benefit worker health and safety. Over the past six years, UConn has received, on average, approximately $60,000 per year from NIOSH to train these doctoral-level researchers. Trainees learn how to contribute to the OHP knowledge base and become highly capable at discovering or implementing new ways of maintaining and promoting worker health and safety. The training program follows a scientist-practitioner model in which trainees must complete 12-credits of prescribed course work, three credits of applied field or lab research under the supervision of OHP faculty, master- and dissertation-level research, and participate in faculty research labs. All trainees complete a graduate proseminar that covers principles of behavioral science, ergonomics and epidemiology and which requires development of a multidisciplinary research proposal, taught by core OHP faculty and also an epidemiologist from the School of Medicine. In addition, trainees complete a required epidemiology course and two elective graduate courses in psychology and/or public health that meet a required breadth requirement covering personnel/organizational psychology, human factors/ergonomics or public health. This combination of course content and applied research training is designed not only to equip trainees with the necessary skills to address today's occupational health problems, but also to enable them to introduce new concepts of work organization and workplace design that can enhance worker safety, health and productivity through proactive approaches to workplace interventions.