The University of Chicago and Northwestern University Postdoctoral Health Services Research Program

项目摘要 由于对卫生保健质量和安全的广泛关注， 弱势群体，并希望迅速将循证疗法付诸实践，有一个关键的 需要培养和发展一支高度胜任的、多学科的未来卫生服务领导队伍 研究（HSR）。这一申请建议建立在九年成功的联合训练计划的基础上 和研究合作，推出一个新的芝加哥大学和西北大学博士后 HSR计划，简称为“UCANU博士后HSR计划”，将采用创新， 以能力为基础的课程，培训来自不同个人和专业背景的候选人， 传统HSR，学习卫生系统方法，实施科学，健康差异研究，数据 科学和系统科学。我们强大、全面的培训架构融合了教学法、指导 研究和专业发展活动，最大限度地发挥大学的互补优势， 芝加哥（UC）和西北大学（NU）在多元化的大都市芝加哥。我们将共同 培养下一代卫生服务研究人员，他们将进行和领导严格的，可重复的卫生服务。 服务研究使用实验和观察研究设计和定量，定性， 混合方法研究为了实现这一目标，我们将：（1）管理两个机构（UC和NU）的培训 该计划整合了许多培训和职业发展的补充资源，包括 教学法、会议（包括与所有UCANU学员和教师的联合研讨会）、指导和其他 专业发展活动;（2）利用教师导师的特殊专业知识， 机构，以确保研究员获得所需的知识，技能和经验过渡到职业生涯 支持创新的、独立资助的卫生服务研究。我们的计划将邀请来自 一个多元化的候选人谁已经完成了博士或临床博士培训和居住或奖学金 (e.g.,它将每年支持四个职位的培训（两个在UC，两个在NU）。研究员将 有他们的主要家在机构，最适合他们的教师指导和培训的需要，包括 获得研究生学位课程。研究员可以获得公共卫生科学硕士学位， UC的临床专业人员或NU的健康服务和成果研究硕士。一个 顾问委员会将与博士后高铁项目指导委员会一起监督所有培训沿着， 有意包括来自NU和UC的领导和教师导师，以优化协调， 两个网站之间的合作。未来五年，我们将充分利用 我们的联合大学，以培养和准备下一代不同的科学家，他们的职业生涯将雇用 严格和创新的HSR的力量，以改善医疗保健的提供和获取，增加实施 最大限度地提高健康成果，消除健康差距。

Project Summary Because of widespread concerns about health care quality and safety, disparities in access and outcomes for vulnerable populations, and the desire to rapidly move evidence-based therapies into practice, there is a critical need to train and develop a highly competent, multidisciplinary workforce of future leaders in health services research (HSR). This application proposes to build on a nine-year history of successful joint training programs and research collaborations to launch a new University of Chicago And Northwestern University Postdoctoral HSR Program, referred to as the “UCANU Postdoctoral HSR Program”, which will use an innovative, competency-based curriculum to train candidates from diverse personal and professional backgrounds in traditional HSR, learning health system methods, implementation science, health disparities research, data science, and systems science. Our robust, comprehensive training architecture incorporates didactics, mentored research, and professional development activities that maximize the complementary strengths of University of Chicago (UC) and Northwestern University (NU) in the diverse metropolitan city of Chicago. Together, we will train the next generation of health services researchers who will conduct and lead rigorous, reproducible health services research using both experimental and observational study designs and quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. To achieve this goal, we will: (1) administer a two-institution (UC and NU) training program that integrates numerous complementary resources for training and career development, including didactics, conferences (including joint seminars with all UCANU trainees and faculty), mentoring, and other professional development activities; and (2) leverage the exceptional expertise of faculty mentors at both institutions to ensure that fellows attain the knowledge, skills, and experiences required to transition into careers that sustain innovative, independently-funded health services research. Our program will invite applications from a diverse pool of candidates who have completed a PhD or clinical doctoral training and residency or fellowship (e.g., MD, DPT), and it will support the training of four positions per year (two at UC, two at NU). Fellows will have their primary home at the institution that best fits their needs for faculty mentorship and training, including access to graduate degree programs. Fellows may earn a Master of Science in Public Health Sciences for Clinical Professionals at UC or a Master of Science in Health Services and Outcomes Research at NU. An advisory board will oversee all training along with a Postdoctoral HSR Program Steering Committee that intentionally includes leadership and faculty mentors from both NU and UC to optimize coordination and collaboration between the two sites. Over the next five years, we will leverage the vast, remarkable strengths of our combined universities to train and prepare the next generation of diverse scientists whose careers will employ the power of rigorous and innovative HSR to improve healthcare delivery and access, increase implementation of evidence, maximize health outcomes, and eliminate health disparities.