Gastrointestinal Surgery Outcomes Research Fellowship

简介(申请人提供)：虽然外科医生和外科专家在健康服务和临床研究领域做出了巨大贡献，但这些学科继续缺乏具有良好研究技能的教师，这一领域缺乏研究在一定程度上与训练有素的研究人员有限有关。为了解决这个问题，我们认为年轻的外科医生需要正规的、严格的培训计划，为他们在外科和介入领域的学术生涯做准备。鉴于普通外科医生最常处理的临床问题涉及消化系统疾病(阑尾炎、胆道疾病、肠梗阻、憩室炎、克罗恩病、胰腺炎等)。对于肥胖及其相关疾病，我们相信有足够的机会开展研究培训计划，为学员在这些临床护理领域致力于临床和HSERV研究的学术生涯做好准备。这一修订后的申请侧重于发展训练有素的临床和卫生服务(HSERV)研究人员，通过一套动态的适当活动，让他们接受严格的教学和实践研究培训。我们的计划将每年招募一名学员参加为期两年的培训计划，从而在第一年每年支持两名学员。该计划将使学员完成公共卫生硕士(MPH)学位和独立的临床或HSERV研究项目。我们希望所有受训人员在5个核心领域接触到教职员工：管理数据集分析、以患者为中心的结果和患者偏好评估、卫生经济学、医疗保健政策和临床研究发展。学员将与他们选择的研究导师密切合作，并将通过教师讲座、学员论文委员会中的核心代表、正式的核心课程以及我们机构附属培训项目提供的教育机会，正式接触到其他核心研究领域。一个咨询委员会将监督培训计划的所有方面。 与公共卫生相关：年轻的外科医生需要接受正规的、严格的培训计划，为他们在一个不以长期、高水平的临床研究生产力为特征的学科的学术生涯做好准备。该培训计划将采取措施，确保下一代外科医生有能力提高正在进行的外科研究的质量和数量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): While surgeons and surgical specialists have made strong contributions to the fields of both health services and clinical research, these disciplines continue to suffer from shortages of faculty with well-developed research skills, and the lack of research in this area is in part related to a limited pool of well-trained investigators. To address this issue, we believe young surgeons need formalized, rigorous training programs to prepare them for academic careers in surgery and interventional fields. Given that the vast scope of clinical issues most commonly managed by general surgeons involve digestive disease (appendicitis, biliary disease, bowel obstruction, diverticulitis, Crohn's disease, pancreatitis, etc.) and obesity and its related disease, we believe there is ample opportunity for a research training program designed to prepare trainees for academic careers devoted to clinical and HSERV research in these areas of clinical care. This revised application focuses on the development of well-trained clinical and health services (HSERV) researchers by exposing them to rigorous didactic and practical research training through a dynamic set of appropriate activities. Our program will recruit one trainee each year for a 2-year training program, thus supporting two trainees per year after year one. The program will result in trainee completion of a Masters in Public Health (MPH) degree and an independent clinical or HSERV research project. We expect all trainees to be exposed to faculty in 5 core areas: administrative dataset analysis, patient-centered outcomes and patient preference assessment, health economics, healthcare policy, and clinical research development. Trainees will work closely with a research mentor of their choosing and will be formally exposed to other core research areas through faculty lectures, representation of cores on trainee thesis committees, formalized core curricula, and educational opportunities offered by affiliated training programs at our institution. An Advisory Committee will oversee all aspects of the training program. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Young surgeons need access to formalized, rigorous training programs to prepare them for academic careers in a discipline not characterized by long-standing, high-level clinical research productivity. This training program will take steps to ensure that the next generation of surgeons has the ability to raise the quality and amount of surgical research being done.