"The overarching goals of this initiative are to: (1) complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation's biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs; (2) help recruit individuals with specific specialty or disciplinary backgrounds to research careers in biomedical, behavioral, and clinical sciences; and (3) foster a better understanding of biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research and its implications."
"Physician-scientists are believed to bring a unique perspective to research through a blend of clinical and research experiences. Over the past three decades, there has been a steady decline in the number of physician-scientists actively pursuing research careers. In psychiatry, this decline has been more striking than in many other areas of medicine. Shortages of psychiatrists pursuing research careers are occurring in a time of unprecedented basic science discoveries in genetics and neuroscience,"
R25 funding supports enhancement of research training for psychiatry residents through creative educational activities focused on part-time research experiences and skills-development courses. Goals include complementing workforce training for biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research, recruiting individuals with specialty or disciplinary backgrounds into research careers, and fostering understanding of research and its implications. The initiative targets residency as a formative career stage to develop, maintain, and expand scientific abilities relevant to NIMH's mission. Rationale cites a multi-decade decline in physician-scientists—especially in psychiatry—occurring amid rapid basic-science advances in genetics and neuroscience. Optimal outcomes include increasing the number of psychiatry residents pursuing research careers and translating basic science into patient care.
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