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Transversal Programmes
Training and Mobility Programme
COORDINATOR: DR. ÁNGEL PAZOS CARRO (G20 – Universidad de Cantabria)
Since it was set up, the CIBERSAM has carried out a Training Programme which seeks to be a reference in training in mental health in this country.
The backbone of this Programme is the perfor- mance of an Official Master Course on Initiation to Research in Mental Health, which started to be given in academic year 2013-2014. Along with this course, there is a possibility of financing stays at other programmes connected with the different areas of work, preferably the ones offered by the CIBERSAM itself. Research stays are also financed at other Units of the CIBERSAM, at other scientific areas of CIBER, or abroad.
The Master Course on Initiation to Research in Men- tal Health is an inter-university course arranged by the Complutense, Barcelona, Autónoma de Barce- lona, Cádiz and Cantabria universities, coordinated by the latter. 11 groups from the CIBERSAM take an official part in the teaching, and practically all the others do so in a more indirect sense.
The Master Course Syllabus (with 60 credits) is characterised by having a major virtual component, as well as by having compulsory practical stays, in both the clinical and basic fields. It tackles both as- pects of foundations of research and neurobiologi- cal bases and diagnostic, clinical and therapeutic approaches.
In 2015 all the courses for the second four-month period of the second edition (2014-2015) were giv- en; in the last quarter of the year the first courses of the third edition also started to be given, one of these in the classroom and five online.
The number of students enrolled in the first edition came to 33 and in this third edition, currently under way, the maximum number of 50 was covered, just as it was in the second. The students are from all over Spain, with different training profiles (medicine, psychology, biology, etc.).
As regards the financing charged to the Programme, CIBERSAM has agreed to reserve a significant part of its Training budget for partial financing of re- searchers’ participation in the Master course. In its second edition, a total number of five groups bene- fitted from the partial subsidy of the enrolment fee. Three candidates benefitted from this in the third edition.
Aside from the Master Course, the Training Pro- gramme has financed 30 stays on a total number of 15 courses and training activities for members of the CIBERSAM: 24 of these took place in Spain (14 on courses directed by its groups) and 6 abroad (Great Britain, Holland). The participation of 19 CIBER members at the Congress of the Sociedad Española de Psiquiatría was also financed. The large numbers of those attending the Intensive Course for introduction to NeuroSciences and the Ideas Labo- ratory is another point worthy of mention.
Five stays for CIBERSAM members were financed, four in Spain and the rest in the United States.
Taking into account the budget reservation men- tioned above, it is important to point out that in 2015 the financing objectives established in the budget were complied with.
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