# Fostering Research Mentorship and Training During Psychiatry Residency

> **NIH NIH R25** · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · 2020 · $15,120

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
There has been a significant decline in the number of research psychiatrists and research fellowships for
psychiatrists in the past two decades (Fenton et al. 2004, Pincus et al. 2005). To address this gap, it is critically
important to provide early research training in psychiatry residency. Such training (a) promotes research
literacy for all trainees, (b) encourages future participation of clinicians as research collaborators, (c) provides
experience that can foster choosing a research career, (d) expands clinical knowledge through the formulation
of patient-oriented research questions, (e) attracts medical students into psychiatry training, and (f) maintains
and facilitates research interest among residents with investigative backgrounds (IOM 2003). In response to
this need, investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Psychiatry and McLean
Hospital collaborated with the leadership of the MGH-McLean General Adult Psychiatry residency to develop a
Research Concentration Program (RCP) within the residency training program. The goal of the RCP is to
prepare residents for careers as investigators in academic psychiatry by facilitating greater exposure to
research activities and training during residency. Through its first federally funded period, the RCP has been
successful in attracting and recruiting talented psychiatrist-scientists and has developed an effective research
education program. We have developed a well-coordinated research education program with appropriate
infrastructure that has attracted clinician-scientists to careers in psychiatry and provided them both mentorship
and research experience to prepare them for an independent investigator career in psychiatry and
neuroscience following residency. The ongoing specific aims of this competitive renewal application for the
research education training program are to: (1) attract and train excellent residents to become future
psychiatrist-investigators in basic, translational, and patient-oriented research, by integrating core research and
clinical didactic programming, as well as clinical and research rotations, during the four years of residency
training; (2) provide dedicated time and training for research over the course of the four-year adult psychiatry
residency training program; (3) increase the number of residents who benefit from the research education
program; (4) broaden and deepen the research education program by providing greater and more intensive
training in research literacy to all residents in the residency training program; (5) provide seed funding for pilot
research projects designed by the residents enrolled in the RCP; and (6) partner with training programs within
MGH and McLean Hospitals as well as the Harvard Catalyst, the Clinical and Translational Science Center
(CTSC), so that all residents will benefit from the CTSC educational resources. Newly developed specific aims
for this competitive renewal application...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10168709
- **Project number:** 3R25MH094612-09S1
- **Recipient organization:** MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
- **Principal Investigator:** MAURIZIO FAVA
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $15,120
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2011-06-01 → 2022-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10168709

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10168709, Fostering Research Mentorship and Training During Psychiatry Residency (3R25MH094612-09S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10168709. Licensed CC0.

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