This interdisciplinary doctoral and postdoctoral program is affiliated with the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the School of Medicine. The goal of the program is to increase the epidemiologic expertise of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, and to increase the number of epidemiologists who have the interest and capacity to study psychiatric disorders. Graduates are expected to undertake careers in research on the etiology, classification, distribution, course and outcome of mental disorders and maladaptive behaviors. The PET program is funded with a training grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. Postdoctoral fellows are required to take Principles of Epidemiology as well as Psychiatric Epidemiology, for credit; and to develop mastery of biostatistics at least equivalent to Biostatistics 140.621-622. Postdoctoral fellows engage in original research under the supervision of a faculty member. Doctoral trainees take a year and one-half of courses in epidemiology, biostatistics, and mental health, before completing qualifying examinations and a research dissertation.
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