Arizona Complementary & Alternative Medicine Research Training Program

Purpose and Goal of Award:

Prepare qualified predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows to perform rigorous and innovative research on whole systems of CAM, and to proceed into productive and successful academic careers that will contribute to evaluating the effectiveness, safety, impact, whole person systemic effects, patient-centered and societal mechanisms of widely-used whole systems of CAM.

Emphasis:

Consistent with stated goal of NCCAM’s Five-Year Strategic Plan to support whole systems research (WSR). Whole systems of CAM include, but are not limited to: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine, Homeopathic Medicine, Naturopathic Medicine, and various Indigenous Healing Systems (http://nccam.nih.gov/health/backgrounds/wholemed.htm). See also selected core WSR background readings by clicking links on this website to abstracts.

Selection Plan:

Year one of the grant (2007-2008), five (5) postdoctoral research fellows and one (1) predoctoral fellow will be enrolled in the training program. 

Year three of the grant (2009-2010), four (4) open postdoctoral research fellows.

No short-term positions available in year three but we will have three per year  4 and 5 short-term health professions predoctoral students will be added as available and appropriate to participate in one of the core DFCM mentors’ ongoing funded CAM/WSR projects across the five years of the grant.

Qualifications:

Predoctoral Trainee Applicants must be established matriculated graduate students at the University of Arizona.

Postdoctoral Trainee Applicants must apply to the Graduate College for admission and enroll as a non-degree student in addition to joining the ACAMRTP.*

• The application process to ACAMRTP and relevant Graduate College program will be concurrent and coordinated between ACAMRTP administration and the Graduate College admissions office.
• Applicants who fail to achieve admission to both components cannot proceed with ACAMRTP training.

Short-Term Health Professions Predoctoral Student Applicants must be accepted or matriculated clinical trainees in an accredited institution’s degree program, leading to a clinical doctorate, including, but not limited to the following: MD, DO, ND, DC, DOM, PsyD, PhD.

Setting:

Set within the interdisciplinary Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. APPLICATION PROCESS In accord with NIH National Research Service guidelines: All citizens of the US and permanent residents are eligible for pre-and post-doctoral training grant support. Judy Hall, T32 Coordinator, will assist applicants in initiating and completing the application process. Contact her at 520-626-4188 or jlhallemail [dot] arizona [dot] edu to begin.