Clinical Services Research Training Program
The Clinical Services Research Training Program is a multidisciplinary training program designed to provide advanced training in clinical services research for psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists and other social and behavioral scientists as well as doctorally-prepared nurses. Seven positions of varying experience levels are available for two-year internships.
The program is funded by a training grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Curriculum
The training program includes required coursework, elective seminars and directed readings, and a preceptorship with a faculty member.
Required coursework includes surveys of the current literature, clinical service research methods, biostatistics, program evaluation methods, reviews of standardized clinical assessment tools, economic and cost analysis methodologies, and professional and research ethics. A wide range of electives are also offered. Faculty include senior, established investigators and junior faculty who have a solid research track record.
Trainees in the program take on an apprentice role in the context of the faculty preceptors’ clinical service research activities. This role will be progressively expanded into full collaboration on an aspect of the research about which substantial closure and publication can be reached within a two-year timeframe. Trainees are also encouraged and supported in the development of the multidisciplinary, collaborative, and negotiation skills required of clinical service researchers.
Contact
Clifford Attkison, PhD, Director
Abram Rosenblatt, PhD, Associate Director
Hugo Sosa, Program Administrator
Clinical Services Research Training Program
Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
401 Parnassus Avenue, Box 0984
San Francisco, CA 94143-0984
415-476-7272 (phone)
415-476-7719 (fax)
Links
National Institute of Mental Health