UW Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Career Development Program (K12)

描述（由申请人提供）：医学知识和技术的爆炸式增长与效率低下，有时甚至无效的医疗保健服务形成鲜明对比。将科学进步转化为更好的健康需要在从实验室到从业者办公室以及卫生系统和社区的几个步骤中进行更多和更好的研究。因此，我们建议在华盛顿大学为博士后和入门级教师学者开展多学科K12以患者为中心的结果研究（PCOR）培训计划。我们的目标是培养将在PCOR的特定领域发展深度的研究者，同时也培养对以患者为中心的结果研究的全方位知识广度；为他们提供方法论知识和实践技能，以进行高质量的综合研究；创造一个充满激情的环境，促进他们的早期职业发展。该项目将包括来自西华大学医学院、公共卫生学院、药学学院和护理学院的教师，以及Fred Hutchinson癌症研究中心、团体健康研究所和普吉特海湾退伍军人管理局健康服务研究与发展部门等著名附属项目。博士后研究员和入门级教师学者将从所有卫生和相关专业以及其他学科中招聘。多学科的核心课程将使所有学者接触到与PCOR相关的学科的理论和方法，选修课程将允许在一个重点领域进行深入的研究。密集指导的研究经验将是该计划的核心，华盛顿大学及其转化健康科学研究所提供了一系列非凡的研究核心、中心和导师来支持这项工作。我们将不断评估项目结果，如果我们成功，我们的毕业生将成为研究领导者，准备使用最高的道德标准和利用新技术和信息学工具进行多学科比较有效性研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The explosion of medical knowledge and technology contrasts with inefficient and sometimes ineffective health care delivery. Translating scientific advances into better health requires more and better research at several steps leading from bench to practitioner's office and to health systems and communities. We therefore propose a Multidisciplinary K12 Patient- Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Training Program at the University of Washington for post-doctoral and entry-level faculty Scholars. Our aims are to train investigators who will develop depth in a specific area of PCOR, but also breadth of knowledge about the full spectrum of patient-centered outcomes research; provide them with methodological knowledge and practical skills for conducting high quality integrative research; and create an environment that infuses them with excitement, and nurtures their early career development. The program will involve faculty from the UW Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Pharmacy, and Nursing, as well as prominent affiliated programs such as the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Group Health Research Institute and the Puget Sound Veterans Administration Health Services Research and Development unit. Post-doctoral fellows and entry-level faculty Scholars will be recruited from all health and related professions and other disciplines. A multidisciplinary core curriculum will expose all Scholars to the theories and methods of disciplines relevant to PCOR, and elective courses will allow depth of study in a focused area. Intensively mentored research experience will be the centerpiece of the program, and the UW and its Institute for Translational Health Sciences offers an extraordinary range of research cores, centers, and mentors to support this work. We will continuously evaluate program results, and if we are successful, our graduates will become research leaders prepared to conduct multidisciplinary comparative effectiveness research using the highest ethical standards and capitalizing on new technologic and informatics tools. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The issues facing healthcare systems in the United States today are complex and raise questions as to whether we are generating and using evidence of the benefits and harms of medical interventions wisely to improve health across the population. The answers to these questions require rapid, high-quality research that focuses on the needs and outcomes of patients. Our proposed program will train the next generation of Patient-Centered Outcomes Researchers who can efficiently and effectively answer these questions.