RDoC Educational and Training Resources

Overview

NIMH offers several research training and career development opportunities to help researchers apply RDoC principles to psychopathology research and clinical trials, as listed below.

If you have any questions about RDoC training programs or awards, please contact a member of the NIMH RDoC Unit.

RDoC-Influenced Courses

Provided below are examples of courses and course-related materials that instructors at various institutions have developed around RDoC and its principles:

• Dr. Amit Etkin of Stanford University has generated a “proof of concept” neuroscience course that uses the dimensional nature of RDoC to bridge the rapid advances in psychiatric neuroscience and clinical education for trainees.
  • Read more about it: Beyond the DSM: Development of a transdiagnostic psychiatric neuroscience course. Acad Psychiatry. 2014 Apr; 38(2): 145-50. PMID: 24493358 
• Dr. Lawrence Fung of Stanford University undertook a survey to evaluate the attitudes of chairs of psychiatry departments, psychiatrists, and psychiatry trainees toward neuroscience education in residency programs and beyond.
  • Read more about it: Attitudes Toward Neuroscience Education Among Psychiatry Residents and Fellows. PMID: 24493359 
• Dr. Sheldon Benjamin has discussed possible practices for how to integrate RDoC within the traditional DSM-based clinical training framework.
  • Read more about it: A DSM-5 to-do list for adult psychiatry residency directors. Acad Psychiatry. 2014 Feb; 38(1): 67-71. PMID: 24419820 
• Psychology 709-301: Transdiagnostic Processes in Psychopathology: Dr. Ayelet Meron Ruscio has developed a graduate psychopathology course organized around the RDoC framework, and we thank her for making the syllabus  available.
• Instructors who wish to include RDoC papers in their syllabi may also want to consult the RDoC manuscripts page to find recent articles about various aspects of the framework.

If you have any RDoC-related training materials that you are willing to contribute to this list, please submit them via RDoCAdmin@mail.nih.gov. Feel free to email any questions you may have about training materials on RDoC as well.