AHRQ NRSA Institutional Research Training Grant

描述(由申请人提供)：罗切斯特大学社区与预防医学系正在寻求AHRQ的国家研究服务奖(NRSA)项目为其在卫生服务研究和政策方面成功的博士后和博士后项目提供的持续支持。 卫生服务研究和政策的博士后和博士后项目的使命是教育和培训学生和研究员，使他们能够教授和进行关于卫生保健服务的组织、融资、交付、质量和结果的独立研究。学员为在学术界、医疗保健提供者和管理保健组织的研究和规划职位以及政府和政策分析组织的职业生涯做好准备。 该培训计划强调统计学、计量经济学、经济学和流行病学以及几个专门研究领域的严谨量化：老年人和长期护理的卫生服务；妇女和儿童的卫生服务；成本效益和医疗决策；以及管理保健和保健市场的表现。 博士后和博士后项目的受训者都受益于社区和预防医学部在过去几年里制定的几项倡议。这些措施包括开发一个数据实验室，该实验室最初由AHRQ创新基金资助，该基金为研究员提供非常丰富的数据源，使他们能够研究重要的和AHRQ优先考虑的人群，包括儿童、妇女和老年人；K30奖项计划导致制定专门的技能建设课程，如拨款撰写和技术沟通；针对临床研究人员的公共卫生硕士计划，该计划与希望获得更多正式培训的博士后研究员有关；预防心脏病学和社区卫生信息学的博士后计划。 考虑到培训计划的成功及其对该机构的重要性，并响应NIH确定的对训练有素且合格的卫生服务研究人员的需求，医学院增加了支持，并将博士前项目的规模从两名入学学生增加到六名。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Department of Community & Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester is seeking continuation of the support provided by AHRQ's National Research Service Award (NRSA) program to its successful pre-doctoral and post-doctoral programs in health services research and policy. The mission of the pre- and post-doctoral programs in health services research and policy is to educate and train students and fellows to teach and conduct independent research of the organization, financing, delivery, quality and outcomes of health care services. Trainees are prepared for careers in academia, health care provider and managed care organizations in research and planning positions, and in government and policy analysis organizations. The training program emphasizes quantitative rigor in statistics, econometrics, economics and epidemiology and several specialized areas of research interests: health services for the elderly and long term care; health services for women and children; cost effectiveness and medical decision making; and performance of managed care and health care markets. Trainees in both the pre- and post-doctoral programs benefit from several initiatives that were developed in the last several years in the Department of Community & Preventive Medicine. These include the development of a data laboratory, initially funded through an AHRQ innovations grant, which offers fellows access to very rich data sources that allow study of important and AHRQ priority populations, including children, women and the elderly; the K30 awards program that resulted in development of specialized skill building courses such as grant writing and technical communication; the MPH for clinical investigators which is of particular relevance to post-doctoral fellows who wish to obtain more formal training; and the post-doctoral programs in Preventive Cardiology and Community Health Informatics. In recognition of the success of the training program, its importance to the institution, and in response to the need identified by NIH for highly trained and qualified health services researchers, the School of Medicine has increased its support and the size of the pre-doctoral program from two to six entering students.