Los Angeles Area Health Service Research Training Program

描述（申请人提供）：加州大学洛杉矶分校菲尔丁公共卫生学院卫生政策和管理系与兰德健康公司、南加州大学舍费尔卫生经济学中心和退伍军人管理局医疗保健提供者行为研究卓越中心合作，提议更新其博士前和博士后培训补助金，在过去的20年里，它在培养下一代学者方面有着出色的记录。这项合作的主要目标，称为洛杉矶地区卫生服务研究培训计划，是提供全面的培训和经验，以高素质的前和博士后学员，使他们可以有效地从事，并最终导致，研究和实施活动，旨在提高美国的质量和效率。利用教师和研究人员的专业知识-其中超过三十人已同意成为导师-在这些机构以及在洛杉矶地区社区参与的跟踪记录，培训计划侧重于几个关键的研究课题，其中合作具有特殊的专业知识：卫生系统的变化;健康公平;诊所外的卫生服务;实施科学;患者，提供者和组织决策;和健康结果测量。博士预科生将完成博士学位。加州大学洛杉矶分校卫生政策和管理系的课程和要求。的博士该计划旨在提供高水平的方法技能和应用培训，深入研究设计和评估，统计/计量经济学以及医疗保健部门的应用。此外，每个学生都必须选择一个同源（例子包括经济学，社会学，公共政策，组织行为学和医疗保健成果研究），他们采取额外的课程，发展同源相关的理论，概念模型和研究方法的能力。博士后项目将为博士后学员提供个性化的培训计划。与科学领域的许多此类项目不同，学员不会被分配到特定的项目中工作。进入该计划后，他们单独会见参与培训计划的主要教师在四个合作机构，使他们能够了解每个机构的机会，并选择合适的导师和项目。在他们的博士后经验，他们与该计划的教师和研究人员合作，开发自己的研究，提交期刊文章，并写补助金的建议，以帮助促进他们移动到他们的下一个专业职位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): UCLA's Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, in collaboration with RAND Health, the Schaeffer Center for Health Economics at the University of Southern California, and the Veterans Administration Center of Excellence for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior, proposes the renewal of its pre- and postdoctoral training grant, which has had an outstanding record of producing the next generation of scholars over the past 20 years. The primary goal of this collaboration, called the Los Angeles Area Health Services Research Training Program, is to provide comprehensive training and experience to highly-qualified pre- and postdoctoral trainees, so that they may effectively engage in, and eventually lead, research and implementation activities aimed at improving the quality and efficiency of the U.S. health care system. Taking advantage of the expertise of faculty and researchers - over three dozen of whom have agreed to be mentors - at these institutions as well as a track-record of community involvement in the Los Angeles area, the Training Program focuses on several key research topics in which the collaboration has particular expertise: health systems change; health equity; health services outside the clinic; implementation science; patient, provider, and organizational decision-making; and health outcomes measurement. Pre-doctoral trainees will complete the Ph.D. curriculum and requirements in the UCLA Department of Health Policy and Management. The Ph.D. program in is designed to provide high-level methodological skills and applied training, with depth in study design and evaluation, statistics/econometrics, and applications to the health care sector. Moreover, each student is required to choose a cognate (examples include economics, sociology, public policy, organizational behavior, and health care outcomes research) in which they take additional courses that develop competencies in cognate-related theory, conceptual models and research methods. The postdoctoral program will provide individualized training plans for postdoctoral trainees. Unlike many such programs in the sciences, trainees are not assigned to work on particular projects. Upon entry into the program, they meet individually with key faculty involved in the Training Program at the four collaborating institutions, so that they can learn about the opportunities in each institution and choose appropriate mentors and projects. During their postdoctoral experience, they collaborate with the program's faculty and researchers, develop their own research, submit journal articles, and write grant proposals to help facilitate their move to their next professional position.