Training Residents in Psychiatry Scholarship (TRIPS) Program
The TRIPS Program is designed to attract and develop researchers for careers in the VA. The primary goal of the TRIPS Program is to increase the number of psychiatry residents entering post-residency research training Fellowships in the South Central Network (VISN 16). Secondary goals include:
- increasing the visibility of the MIRECC
- improving resident perception of the VA and careers within the VA, and
- recognizing residents with research interest/promise.
TRIPS awardees are PGY-II residents selected by their Department Chair/Residency Training Director from MIRECC sites with academic affiliates. These sites include:
- Little Rock
- Houston
- New Orleans
- Jackson
- Shreveport, and
- Oklahoma City
Awardees are assigned a career mentor, who will assist them in career planning and inform them of active research projects and potential opportunities for collaboration with MIRECC investigators. Awardees also receive $1000 to attend a national meeting of their choice and/or pay for books or tuition and receive a travel stipend to attend the MIRECC Annual Retreat.
To find out more information about this fellowship contact Mark Kunik, MD, MPH Houston, TX – (713) 794-8639 or Mkunik@bcm.tmc.edu
SCMIRECC Research Fellowship Programs in Mental Illness Research and Treatment
The South Central MIRECC offers a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship in mental health in its Little Rock, Arkansas and Houston, Texas anchor sites. This interdisciplinary program aims to train psychiatrists, psychologists, and associated health professionals to become outstanding clinical or health services researchers in high priority areas of mental health. In concert with the theme of the MIRECC, the fellowship emphasizes mental health services research and clinical research that is relevant to rural health care settings. At sites, individualized, mentored research and clinical training is combined with a state-of-the-art curriculum that emphasizes research methods, statistics, epidemiology, mental health systems, quality improvement methods, education, and service delivery. Key elements of this two-year fellowship include:
TRAINING IN RESEARCH
About 75% time will be devoted to research training and mentoring and 25% to clinical care.
ELIGIBLE DISCIPLINES
The fellowship is available for psychologists (or other PhD-level associated health professionals) and physicians. Physicians may be psychiatrists or physicians from any other medical specialty area as long as there is an interest in mental health issues. All trainees must be eligible for appointment at the VA, regardless of discipline.
RESEARCH FOCUS AREAS
- Anxiety and substance use disorders
- Cognitive impairment and neuropsychology/neuropsychiatry
- Geropsychology/geropsychiatry
- Health services and outcomes research
- Implementation science
- Improving mental health treatment in primary care
- Medical psychology/behavioral medicine
- PTSD
- Rural mental health and/or Telemedicine
Fellowship Training Goals
The Fellowship Program aims to produce graduates with a strong sense of professional identity, confidence in their research and clinical skills, and ability to be leaders in mental health locally and nationally. Our goals are to:
Provide fellows with research training in formal didactics of research design and methods and hands-on research mentoring by VA faculty. Each fellow will initiate and complete at least one research project of their own, including publishing results.
Place fellows in clinical settings appropriate to their research interests such that their clinical practice will complement and enhance their research training. Opportunities to teach in clinical settings will also be available. Fellows will use an evidence-based approach to clinical care, treatment planning, and service delivery.
Offer fellows other opportunities to optimize their success in academic settings, such as career mentoring, exposure to grant writing and grantsmanship, technical writing, training in research ethics and IRB procedures, and opportunities to provide clinical and/or research supervision in their area of focus.
For more information:
Houston, Texas Fellowship
Psychology Fellowship Program:
Jeffrey A. Cully, PhD
Psychiatry Fellowship Program:
Mark Kunik, MD, MPH
Little Rock, Arkansas Fellowship
Psychology and Psychiatry Fellowship Programs:
Pat Dubbert, PhD
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