Training in Health Disparities of Underserved Population

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究的总体目标 教育计划是准备创造性和独立的护士科学家， 确定、预防和减少服务不足人群的健康差距。 护理学院将是主要参与单位。该计划将 受益于与联合国其他单位的密切联系和合作， 公共卫生和医学学院。我们将进一步建立机制， 鼓励采用灵活课程的速成或“快车道”培训。我们将 提供必要的理论和方法背景， 最高质量的研究。该计划将容纳四个博士预科 每年培养一名博士后护士。Pre-Post-doctoral 学生将获得跨学科的研究培训，其中导师从 不同的学科将带来他们的互补和相关的专业知识， 在共同的概念框架下促进学习，以满足以下要求 学习目标：1.为了了解结构性、 医疗保健的财务和个人障碍以及促成 健康差距，阻碍获得服务不足者实现最佳健康 人口; 2.设计和测试文化上适当的干预措施， 解决阻碍实现最佳发展的最有影响力的障碍， 服务不足人群的健康结果; 3.为学员提供 对新知识作出反应的技能和专门知识; 4.翻译研究 通过各种机制，将调查结果纳入实践和政策， 临床医生、教育工作者、社区和政策制定者。培养目标 将通过程序组件的组合来实现， 服务不足人口的健康差距。这些组件包括 必修课作业、选修课、专项健康差异研究 为受训人员举办的研讨会、服务不足人口杂志俱乐部和研究 与一个或多个核心或资源教师助教。程序 计划包括过程和成果评价以及战略征聘， 特别强调代表性不足的少数群体， 道德研究行为、科学诚信和文化能力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of this research education program is to prepare creative and independent nurse scientists to identify, prevent, and reduce health disparities in underserved populations. The School of Nursing will be the major participating unit. The program will benefit from close affiliations and collaborations with additional units in the Schools of Public Health and Medicine. We will further develop mechanisms to encourage accelerated or "fast track" training with flexible curricula. We will provide the necessary theoretical and methodological background to conduct studies of the highest quality. The program will accommodate four predoctoral and one postdoctoral nurse trainees each year. The pre and postdoctoral students will obtain transdisciplinary research training, in which mentors from different disciplines will bring their complimentary and related expertise to facilitate learning under a shared conceptual framework, to meet the following learning objectives: 1. To understand the relative contribution of structural, financial and personal barriers to health care and mediators that contribute to health disparities by impeding the achievement of optimal health of underserved populations; 2. To design and test culturally appropriate interventions to address the most influential barriers that hinder the achievement of optimal health outcomes of underserved populations; 3. To provide trainees with the skills and expertise to respond to new knowledge; 4. To translate research findings into practice and policy through a variety of mechanisms working with clinicians, educators, communities, and policy makers. The training objectives will be accomplished through a combination of program components that address health disparities of underserved populations. These components include required course work, elective courses, a special Health Disparities Research Seminar for trainees, an Underserved Populations Journal Club, and research assistantships with one or more of the core or resource faculty. The program plans include process and outcome evaluation and strategic recruitment with special emphasis on underrepresented minorities, as well as training in the ethical conduct of research, scientific integrity and cultural competence.