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Career Development and Training in Geriatric Mental Health

Report of an NIMH Workshop

Received February 25, 2003; revised March 1, 2003; accepted March 7, 2003. From the National Institute of Mental Health (JTO,EL,BNC) and the University of Pittsburgh (CFR). Address correspondence to Dr. Olin, National Institute of Mental Health, 6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 7160 MSC 9635, Bethesda, MD 20892-9635. e-mail: jolin{at}nih.gov

ABSTRACT

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.

Key Words: Subspecialty Certification • Training • Recruitment • Career Development

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