Training in Healthcare Financing, Organization and Delivery for Aging Populations

 申请者描述(由申请人提供)：本申请请求为宾夕法尼亚大学医学博士研究生提供为期五年的医疗保健融资、组织和提供老年人口保健方面的培训。博士培训将是健康护理管理部沃顿商学院全国领先的博士项目的一部分，并与宾夕法尼亚大学佩雷尔曼医学院的MD项目紧密结合在一起，佩雷尔曼医学院是全国顶尖的医学院之一。学生将在医学博士和博士学位期间参加专门的老龄化培训。我们的主要目标是培养优秀的医生和研究人员，他们将成为教师、学者和领导者，通过对医疗保健组织、资金和提供的研究，提高老龄人口接受护理的效率和效果。我们将通过发现有才华的人并在以下方面培训他们来实现这个目标 使用以经济学为基础的研究方法来回答重要的和政策相关的问题。该计划提供连贯的培训，包括：医疗保健系统、统计学和经济学的核心教学课程；老龄(老龄轨道)核心教学课程；老龄相关主题的论文工作；参与与老龄相关的临床指导和培训；参加多学科研讨会；以及为老龄人口提供卫生保健筹资、组织和交付的临床和研究部分的强化指导。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests five years of support for MD-PhD student training in the healthcare financing, organization and delivery for aging populations at the University of Pennsylvania. The PhD training will be part of the nationally preeminent PhD program at the Wharton School in the Health Care Management Department, and tightly integrated into the MD program in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine, one of the nation's top medical schools. Students will participate in dedicated training in aging throughout their MD and PhD years. Our primary goal is to train outstanding physician-investigators who will become teachers, scholars, and leaders in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of care received by aging populations through research on health care organization, financing, and delivery. We will accomplish this goal by identifying talented individuals and training them in the use of economics- based research methods to answer important and policy-relevant questions. This program offers cohesive training consisting of: core didactic courses in health care systems, in statistics, and in economics; core didactic courses in aging (aging track); thesis work in an aging-related topic; participation in aging-related clinical mentoring and training; participation in multidisciplinary seminars; and intensive mentoring in both the clinical and research components of health care financing, organization, and delivery for an aging population.