The trainees are psychiatric residents in at least their fourth year, residency graduates, or postdoctoral level psychologists.
Trainees spend a minimum of two years in the program with some remaining for a third year.
Because of the availability of basic scientists within the Neuroscience Program, trainees who wish to make a transition into basic science training after completing their clinical research training can conveniently do so while remaining at this facility. A series of workshops, seminars and conferences are used to instruct the trainees in the procedures, methods and principles of designing, organizing, implementing and reporting clinical research on schizophrenia. During the year this is where fellows learn about grant application, peer review, and publication procedures. Journal articles are reviewed critically with special emphasis on understanding statistical and methodological issues. Fellows practice presentation of their work.