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6 Future Directions for Promoting the Development of Psychiatrist-Researchers
6 Future Directions for Promoting the Development of Psychiatrist-Researchers
Pages 167-176
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This final chapter addresses three overarching issues that the committee believes are important for the future of psychiatric research training. The first is the importance of having better and more data regarding the research workforce and society's need for psychiatrist-researchers.
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In The Crisis in Clinical Research, Ahrens (1992) argues that the latter type of research (e.g., trials of emerging drugs and devices)
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At least one recent study takes a national look at the composition of the clinical mental health workforce and finds that while the numbers of psychiatrists in that workforce have increased markedly (by 15 percent) since the early l990s, the numbers of psychologists and social workers have increased at even higher rates (37 percent and 18 percent, respectively)
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However, that goal is based largely on impressions of leaders in the field, including those at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIGH) , and on the broader decline in the numbers of all physician-investigators (personal communication, J
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A recent report of the Commonwealth Fund Taskforce on Academic Health Centers (2002) concludes that even at academic health centers, there is a lack of outcome data on effective education methods for training medical students and residents.
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Like many reports of this nature, however, this study does not offer any analyses that could be used to infer how the program might be expanded or improved to attract or train greater numbers of, and more productive, awardees. Data on research training obtained by the committee typically focused on individual-trainee success stories with less frequent mention of those who failed to develop into researchers.
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. NATIONAL COORDINATING EFFORT As described throughout this report, but especially in Chapters 3 and 4, the committee found that there are currently many professional societies and other stakeholders in mental health and psychiatry that are intereste`d in and/or developing strategies to enhance patient-oriented research training for psychiatrists.
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forum that convenes those interested in psychiatric research; furnishing financial resources for this forum to collect workforce and outcome data; and funding pilot initiatives to test potential training solutions. The seeds of such a forum have already been sown by the APA Council on Research, which is working to build a consensus on research training strategies in psychiatry that includes a broad range of stakeholders, such as NIMH, the Psychiatry RRC, and the ABPN.
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Finally, it should be reiterated here that psychiatry, in working to increase its presence in patient-or~ented research, should collaborate closely with other mental health practitioners and researchers who share the field's professional goals and who furthermore have historically been extremely valuable colleagues and mentors to psychia~i st-researchers. Another resource and potential model for a national body focused on research training in psychiatry is the Institute of Medicine's (TOM)
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Similarly, the committee uncovered numerous descriptions, both within and outside of psychiatry, of patient-oriented or clinical research training methods. Again, however, hard data on this issue were difficult to find.
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