Career development and training in geriatric mental health: report of an NIMH workshop.
At a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-sponsored meeting, the participants discussed means of increasing the pool of late-life mental-illness researchers. Approaches identified included encouraging retention of junior scientists through greater mentoring and support; creation of research postdoctoral programs by investigators and institutions that lack late-life emphasis; earlier commitment to late-life research with predoctoral training mechanisms; recruitment of ethnic and racial minority scholars into late-life research; and recruitment of newly established researchers through postdoctoral training mechanisms. Federal, public, and private mechanisms need to be better leveraged to grow late-life mental-illness research infrastructure and meet increasing demand and scientific opportunities.
Olin
Jason T
JT
National Institute of Mental Health, 6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 7160, MSC 9635, Bethesda, MD 20892-9635, USA. jolin@nih.gov
Reynolds
Charles F
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Light
Enid
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Cuthbert
Bruce N
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D000368:Aged; D002321:Career Choice; D004493:Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000193:education*; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services; D009315:National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.); D012106:Research / Q000193:education*; D014481:United States