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[...]... goals of training, with an emphasis on both core research training and training trajectories to facilitate patient- 4 RESEARCH TRAINING IN PSYCHIATRY RESIDENCY oriented research career development; (2) programs that successfully train patient-oriented researchers; (3) obstacles to efficient research training at both research- intensive and other institutions, and (4) strategies for overcoming those obstacles... should include plans for educating faculty to deliver each new curriculum, as well as plans for evaluating each curriculum’s success in training individuals to competency and in recruiting and training successful researchers These curricula should be aimed at sparking residents’ interest in a lifelong career in patient-oriented research without interfering with core clinical training The principal... to facilitate research training for international medical graduates who have the potential to make outstanding research contributions to psychiatry Retention of the most productive of these international graduates in U.S academic psychiatry programs should also be a joint effort 16 RESEARCH TRAINING IN PSYCHIATRY RESIDENCY Recommendation 5.5 Psychiatry research training programs should increase the... available to pursue research training The ABPN and the Psychiatry RRC should provide written guidelines and ongoing support to assist programs in incorporating research experiences into all years of residency This recommendation is aimed at optimizing core training by streamlining some of the redundant or overly ambitious requirements of that training, and by permitting programs and individuals the opportunity... clinical or research training Local institutions are in charge of such training If they are going to be successful at training new researchers, the individual programs themselves must strive to provide the necessary resources and opportunities, including research time, mentors, and a culture that genuinely supports and values the importance of generating new clinical knowledge Institutional Factors Training. .. means of gaining practical experience, and because patient needs are often more urgent than patient-oriented research Residency as Part of a Continuum of Training Central to program infrastructure are the duration and timing of research training After careful consideration of research training in the context of residency, the committee concluded that psychiatry residency is a pivotal interval during which... research training goals The more research- intensive departments in psychiatry place heavy emphasis on offering research fellowships and on connecting those fellowships to core residency training, but most training programs in psychiatry do not appear to facilitate such connectivity To foster this connectivity between residency and research fellowships in psychiatry, the committee makes the following recommendation:... are not involved in direct resident training 4.3 Create patient-oriented research training curricula Curricula are needed that incorporate research training across the range and time constraints of residency programs 4.4 Support emerging programs Resources to move programs to the next level of research training are scarce 5.1 Increase financial com- Education debt and low compensapensation to trainees... in clinical brain and behavioral medicine The need is especially acute in child and adolescent psychiatry In this context, the National Institute of Mental Health asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a committee to study research training during psychiatric residency The IOM committee was charged with considering (1) the goals of psychiatric residency training, (2) programs that train researchers... Addressed Longitudinal Perspective 2.1 Foster coordinated multiyear research training experiences Research opportunities are fragmented across the multiple levels and years of training Regulatory Factors 3.1 Increase the flexibility of training requirements Clinical requirements are excessive and prevent tailored training 3.2 Require research literacy Many training programs lack research education . alt="" RESEARCH TRAINING IN PSYCHIATRY RESIDENCY STRATEGIES FOR REFORM Committee on Incorporating Research into Psychiatry Residency Training. focus on research in core residency training, a segment of training that has tradi- tionally had the objective of ensuring clinical rather than research